Published Reviews

The Guardian reviews The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings Kaui Hart Hemmings's first novel manages to both be shockingly irreverent and funny while exerting that all-important emotional tug. Read More »	BookPage reviews And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You by Kathi Kamen Goldmark Kathi Kamen Goldmark has written a fast-paced, wisecracking debut novel that takes readers on the road and backstage for an intimate look at the country music... Read More »
Publisher's Weekly reviews And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You by Kathi Kamen Goldmark Goldmark takes an offbeat spin through the world of country music in her charming debut...the combination of Goldmark's playful humor, her smooth prose style and... Read More »	The Christian Science Monitor reviews West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary On Sept.12, Tamim Ansary, an Afghan American who lives in the Bay Area, listened with dismay as men and women phoned in to a talk radio show, calling for the US to... Read More »
Seattle Weekly reviews West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary ON SEPT. 12 of last year, a San Franciscan named Tamim Ansary was driving to work as talk-radio callers demanded, among other things, a nuclear assault on... Read More »	The New York Times reviews West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary In the weeks after Sept. 11, when the television screens were filled with the certainties and chiseled uncertainties of the talking heads —... Read More »
"O" Magazine reviews And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You by Kathi Kamen Goldmark If your secret desire is to live in a world where bad men are punished and your girlfriends rule and the best cure for a broken heart is to throw back your head... Read More »	New York Times Book Review reviews You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett WHATEVER troubles me about the nine stories in Adam Haslett's first collection, or about the sensibility of their youngish author (he's in his early 30's), has... Read More »
Booklist reviews THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE by Julie Buxbaum In the space of a few weeks, Emily Haxby breaks up with her longtime boyfriend, leaves her job at a corporate law firm, and learns that her beloved grandfather... Read More »	NewPages.com reviews Brown Glass Windows by devorah major Brown Glass Windows by Devorah Major is one of those novels told partly through the confines of the conventional prose story form and... Read More »

Thoughts...OVER COFFEE reviews Heart of the Highland Wolf by Terry Spear This story is wonderful blend of contemporary suspense; romance, with just the right mix of paranormal. Terry has a wonderful sense of humor and you can’t help but... Read More »	Children's Bookwatch reviews Santa's Birthday Gift by Sherrill S Cannon "Santa's Birthday Gift" is a charming children's Christmas book that explains origins of Santa's role in connection... Read More »
reviewsbyamoslassen.com reviews Harpies' Feast by Linda Morganstein ...Morganstein gives us characters that are well defined and real. When I say real I mean that we can see ourselves in the characters here especially since all of... Read More »	Booklist reviews Dogs Don't Lie by Clea Simon Pru Marlowe has recently returned to her hometown in the Berkshires, ostensibly to care for her dying mother. In reality, she fled New York when she was weeks away... Read More »
My Springfield Mommy reviews Sleeper's Run by Henry Mosquera Wow! This book is very intense--I simply couldn't put it down. I read way into the night but I simply wanted to know what was going to happen next. I felt the... Read More »	Self-Publishing Review reviews Sleeper's Run by Henry Mosquera SPOILER ALERT! It’s a high-concept tale that could easily form the basis of a Hollywood blockbuster or season-long television narrative, such as 24. Read More »
Amazon.com reviews The Dance of the Pheasodile by Tim Hewtson le Roux I won't go into the plot here, others have already done that. What I will say is I really enjoyed reading this. I was there with Keith trying to deal with his... Read More »	Missio Amazon.com reviews Missio by Tim Hewtson le Roux When I started to read this book I was expecting, from the blurb, something of a cross between E Nesbit and Enid Blyton - which, I hasten to add, was to me a... Read More »
Women Writers reviews What Feeds Us by Diane Lockward The reader realises soon that not for nothing do fat yellow and black bees crawl over the fruit on the cover of Lockward’s book. In a poem entitled, “Invective... Read More »	KUT Radio - Austin, Texas reviews Woodsburner by John Pipkin i get lots of books submitted for review, most get passed on. this one stood out. based on a little known event in the life of henry david thoreau. thoreau... Read More »