Published Reviews

The Independent reviews Looking After Pigeon (Permanent Press, 07/2009) by Maud Carol Markson Markson is particularly effective with children's dialogue, interruptions, humor and all. She captures Dove's defensive sarcasm, Robin's cautious sense of... Read More »	East Hampton Star reviews Scrambled Eggs, Deadly Bones by Robert Boris Riskin Corpses and Coq au VinBy Michael Z. Jody(03/24/2009) “Deadly Bones,” the new thriller by Boris Riskin and the second Jake Wanderman novel, is barely four pages... Read More »
Kirkus reviews This Lovely Life by Vicki Forman Forman explores the many issues of premature birth without presuming to offer solutions or comfort, drawing directly from the raw outrage, torment and profound... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews This Lovely Life by Vicki Forman Forman’s enormously affecting memoir—winner of the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Bakeless Prize—about the drastic disabilities of her extremely premature child... Read More »
Midwest Book Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 reviews Mantids by Ron Dakron Insects were never thought of by anyone as 'sexy'. "Mantids" takes a look into the love life of the mantis, and a certain male of the species who can't seem to get... Read More »	The Fright Site reviews Mantids by Ron Dakron [T]he book is lively and funny, with a spot-on portrayal of the Pacific Northwest punk subculture amid all the insanity--and really: perverted sex, punk rock,... Read More »
www.sfsite.com reviews Mantids by Ron Dakron The real star of the book is not the narrator but the writing. Dakron is a poet and his skill with words makes this book shine. He pulls all of your senses in... Read More »	The Girls From Ames Reader Views reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow Karla, Kelly, Marilyn, Jane, Jenny, Karen, Cathy, Angela, Sally, Diana, and Sheila are the girls from Ames. For many that statement might not mean anything, but... Read More »
amamzon.com reviews Miss McGhee by Bett Norris "This issue is racial and other discrimination as the backdrop to a love story between two women in the 40s and 50s. The love story is so achingly beautiful. The... Read More »	Torso reviews Sudden Strangers - The Story of a Gay Son and His Father by Aaron Fricke Read More »

Quill & Quire reviews Love Every Leaf: The Life of Landscape Architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander by Kathy Stinson Stinson delivers her usual polished product, crafting a thoroughly researched, well-written text. Tundra hasn't scrimped on the production values, either, so the... Read More »	Movie Poop Shoot: Should It Be a Movie? reviews Egg Story by J Marc Schmidt If I had to compare EGG STORY to anything, I'd (with all sincere praise) tell you that it reminds me of nothing less than the work of the great Shel Silverstein.... Read More »
Romantic Times Book Reviews reviews Ruby Among Us by Tina Ann Forkner 4 1/2 Stars “In this memorable debut novel, the characters are well written and interesting…Readers will not want this story to end." Read More »	Gale Cengage Reference Reviews reviews American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History by Gina Misiroglu The editor of this set defines a “counterculture” as “a culture in its own right, but one whose core values and lifestyle stand outside the mainstream and that,... Read More »
The Hindu reviews INGLISTAN by Rajesh Talwar FIFTEEN years after a little known paperback unexpectedly made the bestseller lists, cultural compare and contrasts still seem the in thing. The world may have... Read More »	Book Club Classics reviews Forgetting English: Stories by Midge Raymond “Each place is vividly realized...In addition to Raymond’s lovely characterization and sense of place, her deft use of metaphor is intuitive and contributes to the... Read More »
Salon.com reviews The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki If you, like me, are somewhat private by nature, you are often made uneasy by our exceedingly confessional society, one in which friends upload photos of all... Read More »	Reading The Past Litblog reviews The Wedding Shroud by Elisabeth Storrs Few authors have fictionalized the Etruscan civilization, especially when compared with the many who write about Rome. Though separated from the Roman Republic... Read More »
Publisher's Weekly reviews Steps and Stones by Gail Silver This offbeat story makes the potentially cerebral topic of dealing appropriately with anger simple and delightfully visual. Krömer’s predominantly green palette in... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews The King's Agent by Donna Russo Morin In return for acquiring—stealing if he must—great works of art for French King François I, the king’s royal art dealer, Battista della Palla, enjoys the king’s... Read More »