Published Reviews

Library Journal reviews The True Sources of the Nile by Sarah Stone This stunning first novel, set in contemporary Africa, begs to be compared to Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible and Ronan Bennett's The Catastrophist yet... Read More »	Tertulia Magazine reviews Alms for Oblivion: A Poem in Seven Parts by Bryce Milligan In general, good poetry contains stark images and simple word use. It is written to be read aloud, rewards bibliophiles but does not punish... Read More »
Bloomsbury Review reviews Alms for Oblivion: A Poem in Seven Parts by Bryce Milligan Embarking on an ambitious, solemn, and passionate quest into a maze of his own making, the muse-poet in Bryce Milligan's latest collection of... Read More »	Orion Magazine reviews Yellowcake by Ann Cummins Kinds of damage and forms of compensation propel this engaging debut novel by Ann Cummins. She avoids cheap rhetoric and easy judgments about a local environmental... Read More »
The Feminist Review reviews Edge and Fold by Paul Hoover Paul Hoover, author of Edge and Fold, amazes his readers with postmodern poetry. His newest work is a compilation separated into two poems: "Edge and Fold... Read More »	The Great American Pinup. reviews Edge and Fold by Paul Hoover The title of Paul Hoover’s Edge and Fold suggests that the lines of poetry that run through the book approach the limit of the page (the edge) or are cut off in... Read More »
Stride Magazine reviews Poems in Spanish by Paul Hoover Poems in Spanish is haunted by a ghostly presence throughout, whether it be of the poet's dead father or a kind of landscape of the mind, which is also, one feels... Read More »	Pleiades 27.2 (2007): 211-215 reviews Poems in Spanish by Paul Hoover The title of Paul Hoover's ninth collection of poetry is misleading. Poems in Spanish is not, in fact, written in Spanish. Instead, Hoover presents a variety of... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Paradise Farm by Brenda Webster Using a spare prose style resonant with clues to the catastrophic times ahead, Webster deftly conveys a period of social history when women began voicing their... Read More »	San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Last Good Freudian by Brenda Webster ``I was born and brought up to be in psychoanalysis and, as a result, much of my adult life was spent on the couch.'' Thus begins Brenda Webster's new memoir,... Read More »

Third Coast reviews Mosquito by Alex Lemon "His speakers are unrelenting in their quest to remain focused on life’s true and pure moments despite, or rather because of, their fear. Alex Lemon’s poems... Read More »	John Scalzi's "Whatever" reviews Schuyler's Monster: A Father's Journey with His Wordless Daughter by Robert C. Rummel-Hudson "Since I know the people in the book, I can’t say that I’m at all objective about it, but folks, this is a good book. Rob writes well, with humor and anger and... Read More »
Amazon Reviews reviews Schuyler's Monster: A Father's Journey with His Wordless Daughter by Robert C. Rummel-Hudson 5 out of 5 stars This memoir is really two stories braided together. First, the writing. Many blogketeers today have a disregard for proper English. I approached... Read More »	Style Weekly reviews Rock 'N' Roll Soldier: A Memoir by Susan VanHecke Kohler's story couldn't be timelier for the young men and women navigating the war zones of today. Read More »
Coffee Time Romance & More reviews The Commander's Desire by Jennette Green An exciting and interesting historical, this book kept my attention and is one that I enjoyed reading. The murder and mayhem are very well written and are... Read More »	Rob around Books reviews War on the Margins by Libby Cone With so many other distractions vying for my time and attention over the past couple of weeks it’s taken me longer than it should have, but I finally got around... Read More »
Beat The Bloomsbury Review (Vol. 29, Issue 5) reviews Beat by amy l. boaz Beat AMY BOAZ The Permanent Press, $26.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-57962-186-5 A book person of note, when asked how he could tell whether a manuscript was any good,... Read More »	The Girls From Ames Des Moines Register reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow The photographs reveal much about a lifelong relationship between 11 women. In the first, the tanned high school girls emit a joy for life in their playful group... Read More »
The Girls From Ames Dallas Morning News reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow The Girls From Ames is such a brilliantly conceived, unusually composed book that the most sensible place to begin is the beginning: how a male Wall Street Journal... Read More »	Newsblaze reviews Shimmer by Eric Barnes Eric Barnes has a smash debut novel hitting upon a subject that is clearly newsworthy. Shimmer is based upon one of the oldest money-making plots known as "The... Read More »