Member Reviews

That Neal Pollack is one funny guy. Jennifer Massoni talks about The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: The Collected Writings of Neal Pollack by Neal Pollack At the risk of absolutely never being nearly an eighth as funny as Neal Pollack is in this anthology, I'll say it straight: Read this book! It won't take long because you won't be able to stop... Read more »	"How quietly we endure...." former member talks about A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini While Khaled Hosseini’s runaway bestselling debut, The Kite Runner, was written from a male perspective and focused on the relationships between men, Hosseini’s second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns... Read more »
Christy Tillery French, Midwest Book Review Maggie Bishop talks about Perfect for Framing by Maggie Bishop Jemma Chase and Detective Tucker return for another suspense-filled escapade in Perfect for Framing, the latest addition to Maggie Bishop’s acclaimed Appalachian Adventure series. With the advent of... Read more »	letter to my mother Maria Espinosa talks about Letter to My Mother (translated) by Brenda Webster Edith Bruck. Letter to my Mother I(Lettera alla Madre) Translated by Brenda Webster with Gabrielle Romani. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2006 Edith Bruck, well-known in... Read more »
My Review former member talks about The United States of Appalachia by Jeff Biggers What I love about this book is that it is very detailed and explains the concepts in a very clear and concise way. Read more »	The poems review former member talks about Chalcedony's First Ten Songs by Clive Matson Now look people, ya’ll know I’m just a country boy, ain’t been to them big colleges of ivory stairs and cut-glass marble floors, but you can bet that last dime, in your pocket, this ole boy knows how... Read more »
Reviewed by Raakhee Suryaprakash May 2007 for The Road to Romance Karla Brandenburg talks about Intimate Distance by Karla Brandenburg ... At a time when computers and the Internet shorten actual distances even as they increase figurative ones, Karla Brandenburg's "An Intimate Distance" perfectly describes the effects of the... Read more »	From Ashley Merill for Front Street Reviews Karla Brandenburg talks about Intimate Distance by Karla Brandenburg Karla Brandenburg definitely kept the reader at their seat and crossing their fingers [that] Julianne and Jack end up together. She throws in some nice twists to make it the not-so-average romance... Read more »
Inquistive Intrigue former member talks about No One You Know by Michelle Richmond Without reading the book and let me emphasize again, “Without Reading the Book!” Noting only the excerpt from the book, posted here at the Red Room. The mathematical mystery has me curious I must... Read more »	At Last-The Quest's Conclusion Brian S. Pratt talks about Quest's End: The Broken Key #3 by Brian S. Pratt From: Yellow30 Sci-Fi, FootNotes Reviewer, 02/19/2008 Finding the last segment of the Key to the King’s Horde has become an obsession with Riyan and his friends. Traveling into forbidden lands is... Read more »

Review from Library Journal Susan Wiggs talks about Lakeshore Christmas (Lakeshore Chronicles #6) by Susan Wiggs As she's both thrilled and terrified to be leading the annual town Christmas pageant, the last thing proper, by-the-book librarian Maureen Davenport needs is former child star/recovering alcoholic... Read more »	Do yourself a favor and taste humanity with this one Ranjan Patel talks about You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett The writing drips with compassion. This book changed my life and spoiled me for every other piece of literature to come my way . . . while reading it, my heart literally stopped for beats and left me... Read more »
Eloquent Books Review Steven Herrmann talks about William Everson The Shaman's Call by Steven Herrmann Written by Steven B. Herrmann, 2009 We have used the interview format to bring the lyrical rhythms of American poetry to life and have tried our best to stay away from psychological terminology that... Read more »	Amazing! Amanda Rossetti talks about Ghost Medicine (Fall 2008) by Andrew Smith My librarian knows someone from the publishing company so she got us a few copies before it came out so we could review it for them. It was one of the best books I have ever read! To think that this... Read more »
Book Review former member talks about Felicity & Barbara Pym by Harrison Solow "Reading the book now and it is indeed the book generations of serious writers pursuing either a literary career or an academic literary life will need to read to evolve the form and its delivery,... Read more »	Reviews for "Addict Nation" by Jane Velez-Mitchell and Sandra Mohr Jane Velez-Mitchell talks about Addict Nation: An Intervention for America by Jane Velez-Mitchell Addict Nation is a great read; I couldn't put it down. In fact, I read it over and over, and I can't wait to read it again. I think I'm hooked. But in a good way.--Joy Behar, Host of The Joy Behar... Read more »
Discipline pauline ramdhanie talks about Discipline by Paco Ahlgren You can always tell the difference between an amature and someone who is a master at what he does. 'Disipline' is mysteriously captivating, ominously terrifying and morbidly alluring and I got all... Read more »	My Review former member talks about The United States of Appalachia by Jeff Biggers What I love about this book is that it is very detailed and explains the concepts in a very clear and concise way. Read more »
Sincere Voices and Challenging Arguments David Gross talks about We Won’t Pay!: A Tax Resistance Reader by David Gross “Both daunting and encouraging and well worth the considerable reading time… captures in one indexed volume many individual acts and campaigns of conscientious objection to war and of revenue refusal... Read more »	New Scientist Jeff Biggers talks about Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland by Jeff Biggers New Scientist, February 2010 "Biggers is a cultural historian and it is the social strip-mining that angers him most. But seldom have the environmental and social landscapes been so well described in... Read more »