Unveil the World of Books with Norm Goldman
Montréal, Montréal
Norm graduated from Sir George Williams University (now known as Concordia University) in Montreal, Canada, as well as the Université de Montréal, (Faculté de Droit) Faculty of Law many years ago. For over thirty-five years, he practiced as a Title Attorney and Civil Law Notary in Montreal, Canada. However, when Norm expressed his exhaustion from practicing law, a friend advised him to retire, stating that he wouldn't be retiring from life but rather from his profession. Norm heeded this advice and pursued book reviewing as a hobby, utilizing the skills he had honed during his years in the legal profession. Initially, Norm restricted his reviews to travel and adventure genres, but he gradually expanded his scope to include many other genres, such as business ethics, sports, Internet, Judaica, Canadiana, adventure, historical adventure, travel adventure, contemporary topics, politics, photography, music, fiction, and non-fiction. Norm welcomes review and interview requests. Norm also offers personalized Priority, Fast Track & Quick Review Services. More information can be found at bookpleasures.
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The depiction of female leads in literature has undergone significant transformation throughout the ages. From passive damsels in distress to powerful and multi-dimensional characters, the evolution o...
In today's fast-paced digital age, where information is readily available at our fingertips and distractions abound, reading is losing its prominence. However, reading remains an invaluable and timele...
Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest Dr. Jaya Viswanathan, who is a captivating blend of neuroscientist and artist who hails from India. With a background spanning engineering to cognitiv...
Bookpleasures.com is thrilled to welcome Jamie McDonald, an exceptional creative force as our guest. With a successful career spanning various media industries, Jamie has made a lasting impact on his...
The business world is dynamic and intricate, requiring constant adaptation, innovation, and strategic thinking. Professionals often turn to business literature that offers insights, frameworks, and ca...
Countless narratives have been written over centuries in the vast realm of literature. Yet, only a select few authors have emerged as pioneers of originality. These writers transcend the norm by incor...
Author: Jia Gottlieb MD Publisher: Sanitas Press ISBN:978-1-7343769-0-6 Who among us hasn't wanted to enjoy lifetime pleasure? But, what is pleasure? Have you ever thought about its significance? When...
Author: Anne B. Gass Illustrations by Emma Leavitt Publisher: Maine Authors Publishing ISBN: 978-1-63381-259-8 The names Ingeborg Kinstedt and Maria Kindberg probably don’t ring a bell unless you are...
Michael J. Coffinos's Truth is in the House spins a tale focusing on the lives of two households, one black, the Jacksons, formerly from Dublin, Mississippi, and the other, white, the O'Farrells from...
In Match: A Medical Murder Mystery, Amy S. Peele crafts a chilling intricate mystery around the investigation of the death of a living donor coordinator, Kayla Newman, who was a member of the staff at...
Author: Laurie Singer, M.S. LMFT, BCBA Publisher: Laurie Singer Behavioral Services ISBN: 978-1-7359448-2-1 Can a hybrid of two therapy techniques, Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy,...
Author: Gavin Larsen Publisher: University Press of Florida ISBN: 978-0-8130-6689-9 Suggesting that the life of a professional ballet dancer requires extraordinary devotion, years of study, endurance,...
In Miranda and the D-Day Caper Shelly Frome offers an off-beat, comical thriller set in a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Frome cleverly brings his setting to life with a qui...
Author: Jacquelyn H. Berry, Ph.D Publisher: FYC ENTERPRISES ISBN: 2370000861757 To exclaim that covid-19 has turned your world upside down would be an understatement. It has shaken up the world and es...
Author:Margaret Wolff Publisher: White Pearl Press ISBN: 978-1-7355083-0-6 I must admit a fascinating story engages our curiosity, emotions and our imaginations. Listening to someone narrating his or...
Author: Michael J. Merry Publisher: PublishNation LLC ISBN: 0979857040892 If there’s one strand that links Michael J. Merry’s most recent selection comprising one novella and five short stories is its...
Author: Michael Kenneth Smith ISBN: 9798684953736 Michael Kenneth Smith’s compelling and imaginative historical novel, In the Shadow of Gold: A Tale of the Lost Confederate Treasure, unfolds in June 2...
Author: Betty Godfrey Publisher: Bookbaby ISBN: 978-1098300494 The opening page of Betty Godfrey’s Enduring Times points out that the narrative is fiction based on a true story. Straightaway, one wond...
Author: Babara Bella Publisher: Indy Pub; Illustrated Edition (October 1, 2020) ISBN-10 : 1087896487 ISBN-13 : 978-1087896489 Unlike that of any other, the relationship between moms and daughters has...
Author: Deborah Gaal Publisher: Anchor House Publishing ISBN: 9781732589650 In her second work of fiction, Synchronicities on the Avenue of the Saints, Deborah Gaal skillfully weaves into her narrativ...
Title: Reversing Alzheimer’s: How to Prevent Dementia and Revitalize Your Brain Author: Dr. Timothy J. Smith ISBN: 978-1-7350480-2-4 Publisher: Hidden Path Publishers Without a doubt, Alzheimer’s dise...
Nancy Kunhardt Lodge’s third work of fiction, The Gravity Thief: The Lucy Nightingale Adventure Series , employs elements of art history, science, time travel, the unexpected, and the supernatural as...
Author: Greg Wyss Publisher: Page Publishing Inc. ISBN: 978-1-644462 Greg Wyss’s 557-page novel When Life Was like A Cucumber is no doubt substantially longer than publishing industry standards. Possi...
Author: Greg Wyss Publisher: Page Publishing Inc. ISBN: 978-1-644462 Greg Wyss’s 557-page novel When Life Was like A Cucumber is no doubt substantially longer than publishing industry standards. Possi...
Author: Michael J. Merry Publisher: PublishNational LLC ISBN: 9798643822646 Michael J. Merry, the author of 9 novels, is a rapidly rising figure in the political-thriller genre. In his more recent amb...
With her Tales of the Holy Mysticat, esteemed feminist theologian, Rabbi Rachel Adler has come up with a creative and novel way to introduce readers to Jewish thought, mysticism, history, prayer, rabb...
Author: Steven Dodge Publisher: Outskirts Press ISBN: 978-1-9772-1648-9 On December 7th, 1941, Japan launched an attack on Pearl Harbor, where over 2000 Americans perished, 100-200 aircraft destroyed,...
To fully appreciate Maggie Kast's latest work, SIDE BY SIDE BUT NEVER FACE TO FACE , you have to look to her biography which no doubt plays an influential role in this resonant, deeply affecting work...
Title: In The Realm of Ash and Shadow Author: Kenneth WE. Harmon Publisher:: Eiledon Publishing ISBN: 978-0-578-59150-6 Are you a romantic and believe in ghosts and spirits? If you are, you are going...
One of the takeaways I experienced from reading Charles Souby's, A View From The Borderline , is they are deceivingly complex and compelling. These slickly crafted eclectic mix are stories that will a...
From character actor with more than forty years experience on stage, film, and television comes Robert Trebor's The Haircut Who Would Be King:A Political Fable The tone for his wickedly funny parody i...
Author: Randy Smith Publisher: Rude Cat, LLC (August 29, 2019) ISBN-10: 0578562456 ISBN-13:978-0578562452 Although futuristic dystopia novels have captured our attention for decades, I have never been...
Author: Sigrid Macdonald Publisher: TotalRecall Publications,Inc ISBN: 9781590952511 With her debut novel, Finding Lisa, set in Ottawa, Ontario in 2004, Sigrid Macdonald has written perceptively about...
Every profession has its share of "rotten apples," and the world of lawyers is certainly not immune. These are characters that may not precisely cross the line of unlawfulness, nonetheless, they think...
Victor Cunrui Xiong's From Peasant to Emperor The Life of Liu Bang is a crossbreed of fact and fiction, which the author describes as a “faction.” Differentiated from many historical fiction novels, X...
Author: Susan Wakeford Angard Publisher: Tudor House ISBN: 978-1-7338984-0-9 Shooting a commercial in the middle of a revolution is not precisely the wisest decision a film director could entertain, e...
Author: Dr. Judy Stone Publisher: Mountainside MD PRESS ISBN: 978-0-9749178-2-5 There have been dozens of books authored by second-generation children of Holocaust survivors that have been trying to m...
Bookpleasures.com welcomesas our guest, award-winning author Michael Kenneth Smith. Michael is the author of The Postman, Scarred, Home Again and his recent novel, The Thin Gray Line . Norm: Good day...
One of the rewards in reading historical fiction is that it makes events and people come alive that is more inviting or personal than just reading a non-fiction history book of the event. When we huma...
When I picked up a copy of Gary D. McGugan's third novel in his Multima series, Unrelenting Peril, I didn't give much thought to its title. It was only after I had reached the last chapter that I well...
Don't worry, you don't have to rush out and pick up a copy of Gary D. McGugan's debut novel, Three Weeks Less A Day before reading his second in the Multima series, The Multima Scheme . McGugan crafts...
Author: Gary D. McGugan ISBN:978-1-4602-9326-3 On the back cover of Gary D. McGugan's first novel, Three Weeks Less A day , there is a description of the author as being someone who loves to tell stor...
In Kiss Me Swami: The Spiritual Education of a Beauty Queen, Kathalynn Turner Davis candidly mindfully reflects on her life experiences while unearthing meaning and extracting lessons from them. Throu...
Author:Vic DiMartino Publisher: Covenant Books Inc ISBN: 978-1-64471-529-1 Vic DiMartino with his debut novel, Escapes preferred not to write a family biography about his grandfather Arturo DiMartino...
Author: Michael Merry Publisher: PulishNation LLC ISBN: 978-0-359-66389-7 Until I picked up a copy of Michael Merry's most recent novel, Magician in Black I had been aware of only one daring assassina...
Author, Photographer & Artist: Patrick Stull Contributions: Book Design & Compositions Sayali Shah: Editor: Kate Read: Art
If you are not familiar with the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), Roger Higgins' Billy Gogan Gone Fer Soldier is a must read and should be on the shelf of every student of American history. The novel...
Lloyd Zane Remick's debut novel, Two Times Platinum is set in the author's native Philadelphia and manages to combine together his vast knowledge as a law professor and experience as an entertainment...
Using a favorite theme in science fiction of “what if?” into a “why not,”authors Beverly Knauer and Murray Rosenthal have crafted an out-of-the-box science fiction story that may at first seem to be i...
Author: Yancey Williams Publisher: YPress ISBN: 978-0-9860316-9-4 Even though you might initially be fooled by its title or the absurd nature of its plot, The Resurrection of Jesus once again demonstr...
Author: William H. Coles ISBN: 978-0-9961903-3-6 In McDowell: A Novel , Award-Winning author William H. Coles explores the life-altering consequences of Dr. Hiram McDowell who rises to the pinnacle of...
Author: Laurie Stevens Publisher: FYD Media, LLC ISBN: 978-0-9970068-0-3 With its shocking and scintillating twists, award-winning author Laurie Stevens' The Mask Of Midnight (A Gabriel McRay Novel )...
Author: JP O'Donnell Publisher: Outskirts Press ISBN: 978-1-9772-0177-5 Pulse Of My Heart, the third in JP O'Donnell's Gallagher Series , once again features Daniel Cormac Gallagher Jr. who appears to...
Author: Michael J. Merry Publisher: PublishNation LLC ISBN: 978-0-359-21164-7 In 1925 Percy Harrison Fawcett, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Artillery along with his son Jack and a friend Raleigh R...
Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest, Deborah Gaal author of The Dream Stitcher. Deborah abandoned a love of theater to take over the family flooring business and ended up running a wholly-owned su...
Author: Deborah Gaal Publisher: Anchor House Publishing ISBN: 97817322589605 In The Dream Stitcher , Deborah Gaal stretches the limits of our imagination when she recounts the story of Goldye Finkelst...
Author: Rob Levinson Publisher: Black LeperBooks ISBN: 978-1-77302-279-6 When I picked up a copy of Rob Levinson's The Leper Messiah, I was reminded of my first encounter with the story of David while...
Big Things Have Small Beginnings is the outcome of Wesley Berry's many years of experience providing consulting services to over forty businesses while simultaneously establishing his retail franchise...
Authors: Dr. Edward Shorter and Dr. Max Fink Publisher:Oxford University Press ISBN: 978-0-19-088119-1 Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guests, Dr. Edward Shorter and Dr. Max Fink authors of The Madn...
Authors: Dr. Edward Shorter and Dr. Max Fink Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 978-0-19-088119-1 What is catatonia? Is it a symptom of schizophrenia? Can it be treatable and reversible? These a...
Bookpleasures.com once again welcomes as our guest, Michael Pronko. Michael is a professor of American Literature and Culture at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo. He has written about Japanese culture...
Author: Michael Pronko Publisher: Raked Gravel Press 2018 ISBN: 978-1-9422410-16-4 With his recent tome, The Moving Blade: A Tokyo Mystery Michael Pronko has given his readers a great deal to chew on...
Author: Jesse McKinnell Publisher: Shine Box Publishing ISBN: 9780692101858 Dead Cats and Other Reflections on Parenthood is a first novel by short-story writer Jesse McKinnell. As McKinnell states in...
Ronny Herman de Jong's Rising from the Shadow of the Sun: A Story of Love, Survival and Joy blends historical fact with a vivid personal journal that was given to the author in 1985 by her mother, Jea...
Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Kristen Wolf, author of The Way that was hailed by O , The Oprah Magazine as “A Title to Pick Up Now!” Her second novel, ESCAPEMENT, won a 2018 IndieReader Disc...
Author: Kristen Wolf Publisher: Pixeltry ISBN: 978-0-9996103-0-5 B07DN1BLC9: With her most recent richly textured and emotionally absorbing novel, Escapement Kristen Wolf illustrates her awesome abili...
Author: Vicki Salloum Publisher: Moonshine Cove Publishing ISBN: 978-1-945181-368 In her latest novel, Waiting For You At Midnight Vicki Salloum has written and explored the dual realities of love and...
Authors: John Harvey, Trawnegan Gall and David Kangas Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc ISBN: 978-1-64298-342- There are tons of books concerning real estate investments. Some are quite good, others are...
One of the most enlightening references In Daniel A. Miller's The Gifts of Acceptance: Embracing People and Things as They Are is his citing of Reinhold Niebuhr The Serenity Prayer: God grant me the s...
Bookpleasures.com welcomesas our guest award-winning author Christopher Grey. Christopher is the author of Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci's Servant and recently Hand o...
Title:Hand of Silver, Hand of Gold Author: Christopher Grey ISBN: 9781986462730 Award-winning novelist Christopher Grey sets his recent tale in 1493 when Bologna was under the tyrannical rule of an It...
Author: Shane Stanley Publisher: Independently published (January 31, 2018) ISBN: 9781976986468 If you peruse the shelves of the library or your physical and online book stores, you will probably find...
Author: Nevard Tellalian Publisher: Just Ain't Write Books ISBN: 9781732015517 I have to confide that I was not familiar with Nevard Tellalian or her music, and in fact, I had to watch some of her vid...
Authors: Andreas Algava with Daniel Levine Publisher: For Passion Publishing Company, LLC ISBN: 9781983462542 Thessaloniki also familiarly known as Salonika is the second-largest city in Greece with o...
Author: Boston Teran Publisher: High Top ISBN: 978-1-56703-067-9 Boston Teran's absorbing recent novel, A Child Went Forth follows the harrowing experiences of a thirteen year old boy who has the form...
Author: Michael J. Merry Publisher: PublishNation LLC ISBN: 978-1-387-65145-0 You could call Michael J. Merry's The Tomb Robber a collection of short stories, but I would describe it as more of a seri...
Author: Solange Ritchie Publisher: Stony Hill Publishers ISBN: 978-1-947835-03-0 If you enjoy reading psychological thrillers about serial killers and pyromaniacs, Solange Ritchie's novel, Firestorm i...
Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest, Larry D. Thomson author of White Witch . Larry graduated from the University o Texas School of Law and practised as a trial lawyer for the first half of his pr...
Title: White Witch Author: Larry D. Thompson Publisher: Story Merchant Books ISBN: 978-0-09991621-5-6 Larry D. Thompson's most recent novel, White Witch is set in Jamaica, West Indies, and opens with...
Jim Lindsay's debut novel, The Little Bastards, features the story of Sonny Mitchell as he reminiscences about his adolescent years growing up in the small town of Willamette, Oregon in the 1950's and...
Author: Randi Brill Publisher: Randiland Press ISBN: 978-0-9854035-1-5 When the term “wow” is used in business it generally infers that you are exceeding the customer's expectations with a pleasant su...
Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Randi Brill author of 99 Creative Wows: Words of Wisdom for Business. Norm: Good day Randi and thanks for participating in our interview. Please tell our reader...
Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Philip Kenney author of The Writer's Crucible: Meditations on Emotion, Being, and Creativity Norm: Good day Philip and thanks for participating in our interview...
Writers and other creative people are prone to perfectionism and are rarely pleased with their work. As Philip Kenney points out in the introduction to his The Writer's Crucible: Meditations on Emotio...
Author: Reggie Hill Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-64140-626-0 (PB) 978-1-64140-627-7 (Digital) Reggie Hill has shown his versatility in being able to author two quite differe...
Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Dorianne Allister Winkler author of Pukey Poetry: Tales Ticklers by Mz Millipede . Norm: Good day Dorianne and thanks for participating in our interview. Please...
Dorianne Allister Winkler, author of Pukey Poetry: Tale Ticklers by Mz Millipede resides in the colorful island of Kauai, Hawaii where she shares her art studio with a mixed bag of colorful insects an...
Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Maya El author of The Book of Angels: Twin Flames Rising. Norm: Good day Maya and thanks for participating in our interview. Please tell our readers a little bi...
Author: Maya El ISBN: 9781976293573 If you are into “chick lit” and quick easy reads, you are going to enjoy Maya El's debut short fiction, The Book of Angels: Twin Flames Rising, which is a perfect b...
Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner for his Wall Street Journal series on admissions preferences at elite colleges which became the basis for his bestselling book, The P...
Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest, writer, author, retired teacher, musician, and artist, T. Mike Walker author of Escape from Iran: The Re-enslavement of Women and the Death of Modern Music. No...
Author: T.Mike Walker Publisher: Outskirts Press ISBN: 978-1-4787-8667-2 T.Mike Walker sets Escape from Iran: The Re-enslavement of Women and the Death of Modern Music in Iran during the time of the A...
Author: Nancy Kunhardt Lodge Publisher: Wilwahren Press ISBN: 978-0-9960885-4-1 Following her first in the Lucy Nightingale adventure series and the sequel to The Crystal Navigator, art historian, Nan...
Poet, interior designer, and sculptor, John Diamond Nigh is a man of many gifts and with his debut collection of prose, Sacred Sins: Short Sensual Stories he powerfully demonstrates his remarkable tal...
Author: Joseph Hunter Publisher: Outskirts Press ISBN: 978-1-4787-8404-3 Planet Mars is our closest neighbour and hence it has become the least difficult truly alien place to imagine ourselves living...
Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest, Joan L. Jackson author of Voluntary Chaos and her most recent novel, Just In Time . Norm: Good day Joan and thanks for participating in our interview. Please t...
Author: Joan L. Jackson Publisher: She Writes Press ISBN: 978-1-63152-264-2 Schizophrenia is a serious disorder of the mind and brain wherein it is estimated that worldwide about 1 percent of the popu...
What ever happened to the “Three Rs”-reading, writing and arithmetic? According to Bruce Deitrick Price, author of Saving K-12: What Happened to Our Public Schools? How Do We Fix Them, these basics, w...
Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Terry Jastrow, screenwriter, playwright, celebrated Emmy Award-winning producer/director who traces his roots back to the Mayflower and an American president an...
Author: Terry Jastrow Publisher: Four Springs Press ISBN: 9781946241153 In The Trial of Prisoner 043 , Terry Jastrow offers a powerful novel focusing on a fictitious trial before the International Cri...
