Published Reviews

amazon reviews Perfect Red by Jennie Nash Jennie Nash has written a book about a young woman's ambition at a time when women weren't raised to want more than a MRS. Degree, which back then could be... Read More »	The Compulsive Reader reviews Perfect Red by Jennie Nash Through Lucy Lawrence, the 21 year old heroine of Perfect Red, author Jennie Nash shows present-day readers what it was like to be an intelligent young... Read More »
Peeking Between the Pages reviews Perfect Red by Jennie Nash Perfect Red by Jennie Nash was a great read for me! I have read one other of Jennie’s books ( The Only True Genius in the Family ) and I... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews Brothers and Bones by James Hankins "A prosecutor and a homeless man team up against a murderous conspiracy in this rollicking thriller... The two settle into an entertaining dynamic as ... Hankins... Read More »
China Insight reviews Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants by John Jung The “Chop Suey Craze” that engulfed large American and Canadian cities in the early decades of the 20th century (see http://www.asian-studies.org/eaa/... Read More »	Huffington Post reviews Barbed-Wire Butterflies by Jessica Kristie On first glance, Jessica Kristie's debut novel has a distinct Dickens' like narrative: Kidnapped pre-teen children living out a meager existence as slave labor of... Read More »
PowellsBooks.Blog http://www.powells.com/blog/contributors/my-favorite-poetry-books-of-the-past-year reviews "Between Soul and Stone" by Margo Berdeshevsky "One of my all-time favorite poets...Her latest book, Between Soul and Stone, is incredible. This may sound trite, but I can't help but identify Berdeshevsky's... Read More »	http://ghettosun.com/2012/12/19/soulful-ii-in-review/ reviews "Iron" by Zarina Zabrisky "And then there was the Russian literary sensation Zarina Zabrisky. I could use a thousand fancy adjectives to describe how amazing her performance was but... Read More »
Los Angeles Review of Books reviews How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance by Marilyn Yalom DID THE FRENCH INVENT LOVE? Or would it be more true to say that love is endlessly reinvented every moment, in every culture, every epoch? What the French did is... Read More »	The South Carolina Review reviews For One Who Knows How to Own Land by Scott Owens Owens's style is direct, unadorned, and consists of simple sentence, followed by a comma, then one clause and another and another . . . . There is absolutely no... Read More »

This Miss Loves to Read reviews Love At Absolute Zero by Christopher Meeks Love at Absolute Zero is a gem of a book, and as I rarely begin a review with such a direct declaration, you can be sure that I truly enjoyed reading this story,... Read More »	The San Francisco Chronicle reviews Enchantment: New and Selected Stories by Thaisa Frank REAL, magical By Skip Horvack In an essay titled "Good Readers and Good Writers," Vladimir Nabokov argued that, while major writers are... Read More »
http://colonylibrarylady.com/2012/10/29/heroes-arise reviews HEROES ARISE by Laurel Anne Hill “Have you ever read a fantasy book that you really like? A lot?” I have. A few years ago, I read the novel Heroes Arise with my son. When we finished,... Read More »	Pop Culture Zoo reviews Carol's Aquarium: A Collection by Kristen J. Tsetsi Your opinion and ideas and thoughts about what is going on in each story will keep changing. Ultimately, just like real life, what you are perceiving in these... Read More »
Small Press Review reviews Word Dancing by Jeanne Powell As soon as you open WORD DANCING, Jeanne Powell's craftswomanship and power draw you in and keep you reading until the final syllable. Each word feels carefully... Read More »	Washington Post reviews Blood of Paradise by David Corbett Before he began writing novels, David Corbett spent 15 years as an operative with a San Francisco private investigation firm, an experience that left him without... Read More »
http://lishost.org/~hpplblog/reads/?p=701 reviews The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells Wells can tell a story and, as anyone who has read her Ya-Ya books knows, she’ll take you from laughter to tears to anger and back to laughter in a heartbeat. She... Read More »	The Sunday Times reviews Finding Mr Right: The Real Woman's Guide to Landing That Man by Annie Harrison I’m 47, single since I was 34, and beyond sick of it. My longest relationship lasted for just over a year, on and off, and the others were what you might call “... Read More »
Amazon.com customer review reviews REPAIR For Kids: A Program for Recovery from Incest and Childhood Sexual Abuse by Margie McKinnon "REPAIR for Kids" by Marjorie McKinnon is a really important resource for children who have been abused. I wish that a copy could be found in every classroom so... Read More »	New Orleans Times-Picayune reviews Accordion Dreams: A Journey into Cajun and Creole Music by Blair Kilpatrick Kilpatrick gradually moves from listener to accordion player to performer. Finding her singing voice, she finds her writing one as well. "Accordion Dreams" is for... Read More »