The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) features “The Reincarnation of Leonard” by Glenn Swanson
Glenn Swanson’s masterpiece of fantasy, “The Reincarnation of Leonard,” was featured in the July issue of The New York Times Book Review.
Current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed in The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR), a weekly paper magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times (an American daily newspaper with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to be a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers). It is one of the most well-known and significant book reviews in the business.
“The Reincarnation of Leonard” is the story of a father who has cursed himself to live until he avenges his son’s death. This book was among the books displayed by Author Reputation Press during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2023 at the University of Southern California on April 22–23, 2023.
The author, Glenn Swanson, grew up in northern Wisconsin, close to Lake Superior. He served in the military and was smitten by the travel bug and a beautiful friend who had been his love for 37 years. He travels a lot and has been to amazing locations. At present, he is living in Tennessee.
He enjoyed an interesting life, thought deeply, and tried to speak eloquently about yearnings most couldn’t name but all shared. Life seems to be about looking for answers when you don’t even know the questions.
Glenn Swanson shared in the People of Distinction Program hosted by Benji Cole when he was interviewed about his book that, “As an RN for 23 years, mostly in the emergency department, and as a wanderer, he has met many wonderful people, the preponderance of whom are simply good souls, with the majority of the remainder having been wounded. Malevolent ones are few and far between. He imagines that they are actively stymieing humanity’s enlightenment because he doesn’t want to believe that we are incapable of achieving it.”
“The Reincarnation of Leonard” presents Leonard as a single, tragic episode of cyclic reincarnation. He reenters the time stream as dark forces infiltrate society’s top levels, the church and politics, and plots to open a time portal, the Syne, to change the past for a more beneficial present. Leonard poses a threat to those in power because he can affect current misbeliefs.
Demons that cannot create but must make their will manifest through deception conspire to usurp humans as the heirs of creation. The church’s highest levels desire Leonard’s ability to consciously reach beyond the bounds of a single lifetime.
Leonard’s misbelief, which affects the current framework of reality, has come to the attention of the Watchers, who have been guardians of mankind’s tardy maturation for centuries. They have now decided to take an active role in saving humanity from extinction since dark forces considered to be slaves and servants have grown strong enough to absorb humanity’s spark.
Duplicity abounds, with the ordained turning against the church, heirs to vast fortunes plotting among themselves, and bureaucrats finding threats to their control everywhere. Leonard is just urged to go and misbelieve as a Watcher tactic against those forces.
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