Published Reviews

The Rainbow Reader reviews The Indelible Heart by Marianne K. Martin Why did the chicken cross the road? This iconic riddle first appeared in The Knickerbocker back in 1847, and has virtually endless variations,... Read More »	Greener Pastures reviews All You Bastards Can Go Jump Off a Bridge! by J Marc Schmidt "Do you like the surreal in your comics? Do you like the non-sequitur? Do you like to see someone having fun over and over as they experiment with the comics... Read More »
http://www.midwestbookreview.com/mbw/mar_12.htm reviews Diving for Carlos, or, Heroes' Welcome Blues by William Jackson The Midwest Book Review Heroism is never what it’s cracked up to be. “Diving for Carlos; Or, Heroes’ Welcome Blues” follows Vietnam veteran Hector Cruz as he... Read More »	http://www.theusreview.com/reviews/Diving-Jackson.html reviews Diving for Carlos, or, Heroes' Welcome Blues by William Jackson DIVING FOR CARLOS, or, Heroes’ Welcome Blues by William J. Jackson CreateSpace/Sliding Floor Publications reviewed by Michael Radon "...You could say... Read More »
Green Man Review/Sleeping Hedgehog reviews Rock & Roll Never Forgets (A JP Kinkaid Mystery) by Deborah Grabien I have been hooked on Deb Grabien’s novels since I had the great good fortune to read the first of her Haunted Ballads series. What pulled me in right... Read More »	Bookreporter.com reviews What Happened To My Sister by Elizabeth Flock [What Happened To My Sister, the] follow-up to Elizabeth Flock’s acclaimed 2005 novel, Me & Emma, is a storytelling triumph about the meaning of family ---... Read More »
SuzyNelson.org reviews Before the Last Bell Rings by Suzy Nelson "A clever and entertaining story. She puts the reader inside the head of the heroine. Ms. Nelson taught in an urban Los Angeles high school and knows... Read More »	Referential Magazine reviews For One Who Knows How to Own Land by Scott Owens Scott Owens draws heavily on his memories of growing up in the fast-disappearing rural South to bring forth his seventh collection of poetry, a collage of... Read More »
SaMIE Designs reviews Sleeper's Run by Henry Mosquera This storyline is constantly moving forward at a sprinting pace, full of espionage, fights, and hacking plots. Read More »	Historical Novel Society reviews The Seventh Gate by Richard Zimler (The Seventh Gate) is a mystery on one level, and there is mysticism, but that isn’t what this book is about in the final analysis. It is a personal, intense... Read More »

Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34 No. 2 reviews Geographies of Light by Lisa Suhair Majaj The theme of light and geography throughout the volume plots the layers of family and history through three continents and over several generations.... Read More »	Good News, etc. reviews The Samson Option by Sharon A Geyer The Samson Option was not hard to put down; it was almost impossible to put down. This story quickly takes the reader through more twists and turns than a thrill... Read More »
Drey's Library reviews Love At Absolute Zero by Christopher Meeks Gunnar Gunderson is a geek (yes, he is) who gets hit with the revelation that he doesn't want to live out the rest of his life alone. So he decides it's time to... Read More »	India Today reviews A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan by Farzana Versey It’s a troubling journey into a complex society trapped between western liberalism and radical Islam, where distortions about India and Indian Muslims dominate... Read More »
Book Club Classics reviews Love At Absolute Zero by Christopher Meeks When Christopher Meeks contacted me because his latest novel was soon to published, I was thrilled. I had read and reviewed two of his earlier works — The... Read More »	Christian Science Monitor reviews Manufacturing Hysteria: A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America by Jay Feldman The United States was founded on the notion of being open to all, with malice toward none. At the same time, the US has a history of being hostile to the “other... Read More »
nycBigCityLit_Reviews reviews But a Passage in Wilderness by Margo Berdeshevsky Margo Berdeshevsky achieves an unusual trinity in her first book of poems, But a Passage in Wilderness. The collection is wonderfully experimental, exceptionally... Read More »	BookEnds, The Observer, Jamaica reviews I Name Me Name by Opal Palmer Adisa Title: I Name Me Name: Poetry and Prose by Opal Palmer Adisa. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2008. 222 pages. Reviewed by: Mary Hanna... Read More »
Library Journal reviews Blood of the Wicked by Leighton D Gage Gage’s inspector is a fascinating character, a man who once dispensed his own brand of Brazilian justice now charged with upholding the law of the land. Highly... Read More »	Palm Beach Post reviews Mrs. Ziegfeld: The Public and Private Lives of Billie Burke by Grant Hayter-Menzies Mrs. Ziegfeld (McFarland) is Grant Hayter-Menzies’ biography of one of the most distinctive actresses of her — or any — generation.... Hayter-Menzies’ book is... Read More »