{"id":5208,"date":"2020-08-28T14:22:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T20:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2020-08-28T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T20:22:50","slug":"tales-from-an-odd-mind-by-nom-d-plume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=5208","title":{"rendered":"TALES FROM AN ODD MIND by Nom D. Plume"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Outstandingly brilliant\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plume\u2019s marvelous collection of short stories and poems, a clever blend of dark humor and meditations on death and the workings of the universe, is of the sweeping epic variety despite its slender size. Often unnerving and quirky, weaving in elements of supernatural and science fiction, the collection is divided into three sections. The first section features different short stories, and each piece transcends with sentiments, imagination, and otherworldliness. The remarkable tale \u201cOff the Map\u201d that features a quirky explorer Samuel and two lost souls, Darren and Fleur, who follow the former because they have nowhere else to go is both tragic and unsettling. A beastly dog, a graveyard, a dead awakens to life after more than 200 years; unmistakably supernatural is in abundance in \u201cA Black Dog, A Graveyard, And the Sea\u201d. The elements of hard SF are in abundance in \u201cA Warped View of the Stars,\u201d a tragic futuristic tale of a young solider captured by the enemy forces and taken to a rouge planet with no chance of reuniting with his family and friends. The second section \u201cWe Few Old Souls\u201d starts on a dark note as Plum introduces several quirky characters struggling with their insecurities, eccentricities, compulsions, and fears. The elements of supernatural abound. He lightens the characters\u2019 decidedly dark situation with regular glimpses into the nitty gritty of their lives, conveying the heartwarming bond they share among themselves with skill and understanding. The reader will be blown apart by the deeply tragic culmination: Holly and Michael\u2019s backstory and \u201cit might have been!\u201d (the last chapter in the second section begins with John Green Whittier\u2019s quote: \u201cFor of all sad words of tongue or pen,\/ The saddest are these: \u201cIt might have been!\u201d) becomes a metaphor for Holly\u2019s transition from a regular childhood to a dark adulthood. The world that Holly, Bella, Pearl, Nicolas, Rebel, and Damien occupy seems so real, and if it\u2019s not, the reader will wish it to be real. Marked with mystery, whimsy, darkness, death, and freakish catastrophes, the collection is made even more powerful with the addition of poetry and prose which is steeped in the truths of witness and imagination in the third section: \u201cBut to write a page about \u201cyou\u201d\/ Well\u2026 who knows how much of this is really true?\u201d writes Plume in \u201cAn Ode to Langston Hughes\u201d. The lovers of literary fiction won\u2019t want to miss this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TALES FROM AN ODD MIND<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Nom D. Plume<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy now<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pub date July 14, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 9781734886405<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price $9.99 (USD) Paperback, $3.75 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outstandingly brilliant\u2026 Plume\u2019s marvelous collection of short stories and poems, a clever blend of dark humor and meditations on death and the workings of the universe, is of the sweeping epic variety despite its slender size. Often unnerving and quirky, weaving in elements of supernatural and science fiction, the collection is divided into three sections. The first section features different short stories, and each piece transcends with sentiments, imagination, and otherworldliness. The remarkable tale \u201cOff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":5209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"An Editorial Book review Website\n\nBook review: TALES FROM AN ODD MIND by Nom D. Plume #amreading #WritersLife #Author #authors #Kindle #writingcommunity #amwriting #writers #books #talesfromanoddmind #nomdplume #literaryfiction #fiction #shortstories","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[955],"tags":[38100332,24777292,7223,726,91,460,1747,1136176,610903656,91586,1473,1008073,856121,546,567658],"class_list":["post-5208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-amreading","tag-amwriting","tag-author","tag-authors","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-fiction","tag-indie-books","tag-indie-books-review","tag-literary-fiction","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-short-stories","tag-short-stories-collection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-1m0","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/tales-from-an-odd-mind.jpg?fit=324%2C499&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5211,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions\/5211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}