Bill G. Morris

"A captivating and thoughtful fantasy narrative." --Kirkus Reviews A blue whale doesn't understand what love means. He just feels it. And when he meets a pretty Irish girl on a dock, and she sits down to talk with him, he learns about her caring and very human world, one that fills him with laughter, joy, and puzzlement. This great ocean-going blue whale makes his first friend. And each day he comes to the dock to talk with her. And he learns what a world filled with her love could be.The blue whale and the Irish girl meet together for years, sharing their very different lives, and sharing the fun and pain ofjust being animals. And then the Irish girl hears the love song of the blue whale. Love Song of the Blue Whale is a whimsical trip into the lives of two exceptional characters, a talking blue whale and a young red-haired woman leading her life bravely on her own terms. It is a book about an impossible love, but a love made possible because love exists. Exists for all of us. Even if you're an ocean-going whale. Funny at times, sad at others, Love Song of the Blue Whale calls you to take a trip into your heart. Bill G. Morris is a San Francisco writer and has published six computer and educational books, written as a software columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and published ten works of fiction, with Love Song of the Blue Whale being his latest book. He denies he is the talking blue whale, but his wife thinks he is.

A gypsy card reader reads the fortunes of all who enter his shop in a human parade of the beautiful, the young, killers, poets, dancers, the rich, divorcees, and fools. He turns over his tarot cards and tells them the truth. Each reading has its risks and rewards, and he keeps a knife in his boot. One day a young actress enters his shop and he discovers her cards are also his own.The Card Reader is a love story about a tarot card reader and an actress just starting out. It begins with the card reader doing a series of readings that depict the card reader's world, then blooms into a longer story of the relationship between the card reader and actress. Through the prism of the mystical meanings of the tarot cards, the card reader faces inner darkness, seeks meaning, and finds love in a young woman, a lovely fool, whose goal is applause.The Card Reader is contemporary literature told from the unique point of view of a card reader schooled in the ancient teachings of the Tarot. Readers are immediately plunged into the intrigu- ing world of fortune-telling and questioning seekers. Each of the card reader's readings is a vivid vignette of human desires, foibles, weaknesses, evils, and hopes. Full of human insights derived from the interpretations of the cards, the book is a fast-paced and satisfying spiritual journey that traces the path of two unlike people finding each other.With interest in the Tarot and mystical teaching of the Kaballah growing among scholars, Jungian psychological research, and Hollywood, this book is singular in its leading-edge content.The Card Reader is founded upon the Kaballistic scholarship of Dr. Pamela Eakins, author of Spirit of the Tarot (Weiser) and her newly published tarot deck. The central metaphors of the book focus upon The Fool card, the first card in the Major Arcanna, a card of open-heartedness and beginnings, and The Tower, a card in which worlds tumble. No matter what the reader's experience with fortune-telling, the book presents an enthralling story of personal growth when love is in the cards."As for The Card Reader...simply marvelous...all of it " Pamela Eakins, PH.D., "Tarot of the Spirit"