Published Reviews

My reading room reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas An amazing book. It took me to a different culture (it takes place in Venezuela) and through a wonderful cast of characters that will stick with me. I finished... Read More »	Northern Mama reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas This novel is beautifully written, the imagery bring the exotic Venezuela to life for those who have not experienced it! Mascarenhas' use of Spanish phrases adds... Read More »
Amazon.com reviews The VMWare Workstation 5 Handbook by Steven Scott Warren In the past few years, the need and application of using a product such as VMWare has increased exponentially. Current hardware technology (such as processor speed... Read More »	TaoSecurity reviews The VMWare Workstation 5 Handbook by Steven Scott Warren "Steven S. Warren's VMware Workstation 5 Handbook (VW5H) is a great book for beginning and intermediate VMware Workstation (WS) users. It is well-written, thorough... Read More »
Donne Tempo reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas In this novel the stories that make up the eight primary books of the novel are as independent as short stories. The connections between the characters weave the... Read More »	The Front Table reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas Within these pages is an artfully constructed novel written by a classic storyteller, Margaret Mascarenhas. The story, reminiscent of a modernized selection from... Read More »
Out -numbered 3 to 1 reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas Irene dos Santos disappeared at age 15. Believed to have drowned while on holiday with her best friend, Lily Martinez, her body was never found. Now, years later,... Read More »	Mainstream Fiction reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas In Venezuela, fifteen year old Irene Dos Santos is on vacation with her best friend Lily Martinez when she vanishes. Everyone assumes she probably drowned though... Read More »
Jessewave Book Reviews reviews The Bones of Summer paperback (US) by Anne Brooke To be honest I'm a little nervous as to whether what I'm going to write now will actually do this book justice. It was that good. So good, in fact, that I may run... Read More »	Night Owl Romance reviews To Tempt the Wolf by Terry Spear Tessa Anderson is determined to find the person who killed her brother's girlfriend. Unfortunately Tessa's brother, Michael, was convicted of first-degree murder.... Read More »

Publisher's Weekly reviews Picture the Dead by Lisa Brown (starred review) Picture the Dead Adele Griffin, illus. by Lisa Brown, Sourcebooks Fire, $14.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4022-3712-6 In this smartly restrained ghost... Read More »	New York Times reviews Becoming Jimi Hendrix by Brad Schreiber "Hendrix’s career as a superstar has been well chronicled; the more interesting details of how he became one are told here." Read More »
Kirkus Reviews reviews Osa & Martin: For the Love of Adventure by Kelly Enright "The couple’s delight and happiness in living the life they made for each other shines through." Read More »	Chicago Center for Literature & Photography reviews Remain In Light by Collin Kelley Great as a standalone book, or even better as part two of a grander whole, this is the rare sequel that easily outperforms its predecessor in just about any way... Read More »
The New York Times reviews Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports by Lance Williams In the spring of 2001, as Barry Bonds was blasting balls out of ballparks in his steamrolling drive to overtake Mark McGwire's home-run record, he was peppered... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews Gossip Of The Starlings by Nina de Gramont A transfixing confessional about the secret lives of dangerous girls. Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Pretty Is What Changes by jessica queller TV writer Queller (The Gilmore Girls) was 31, single and healthy when her mother succumbed to ovarian cancer at the age of 58, having battled breast cancer six... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews Pretty Is What Changes by jessica queller Television writer Queller recalls testing positive at age 34 for the BRCA-1 gene mutation and her subsequent decision to undergo a double mastectomy. In 2002, the... Read More »
Tampa Tribune reviews Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst "In his first novel, Doug Dorst provides an excellent example of how a new group of writers with literary aspirations are adept at mixing high and low culture... Read More »	Bookgasm reviews Gene Simmons Dominatrix by Sean H Taylor So, in accordance with that ideal, why wouldn’t my year-end list be made up of comics that I thoroughly enjoyed? These are issues and story arcs that brought me a... Read More »