Published Reviews

Publishers Weekly reviews Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique by Kelly DiNardo Contemporary “stripper chic” and the “neo-burlesque movement” have spurred new interest in Lili St. Cyr, one of America's best-known postwar striptease artists,... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews BLOOM! A Little Book About Finding Love by Maria S van Lieshout As light and sweet as cotton candy, this saga of a pig in love will win over kids and grownups alike. Van Lieshout’s loosely drawn pen and ink illustrations,... Read More »
Kirkus Reviews reviews Little Night by Yuyi Morales "Strong colors in reds, browns and dark blues with a sprinkling of starlight add to the mystical effect. Lovely" Read More »	Booklist reviews Little Night by Yuyi Morales "Pura Belpre Award winner Morales has created a sumptuous feast of metaphors in her text: a bathtub filled with falling stars, a dress crocheted from clouds... Read More »
http://www.j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/ reviews Across Time by Linda Kay Silva ACROSS TIME by Linda Kay Silva is the second book I’ve run across this week where I felt inadequate as a reviewer. What both books had in common were historical... Read More »	Calico Reaction reviews Unwelcome Bodies by Jennifer Pelland The reviews below will focus on each individual story, and in some cases, there will be spoilers. On the whole, I can say that Pelland has a clean, crisp style... Read More »
The Fix reviews Unwelcome Bodies by Jennifer Pelland Jennifer Pelland’s first collection, Unwelcome Bodies, is a compendium of dark tales that are truly speculative. Each one embraces a cosmic “what if”—many of the... Read More »	KIRKUS REVIEWS reviews WHEN THE COWS GOT LOOSE by Carol Weis Similar in premise to Tres Seymour's Hunting the White Cow (1993), but far from that tale's delicate serenity, this wild romp pits young Ida Mae against no fewer... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Rewind, Replay, Repeat: A Memoir of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Jeff Bell FROM PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: "Bell's memoir is a revealing look at life with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) that goes to often hysterical lengths to convey... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews Consumption: a novel by Kevin Patterson "'In this powerful first novel, a beautiful Inuit woman spends her teen years in the 1960s in a Montreal TB sanitarium, learning French and mathematics from... Read More »

You Gotta Read Reviews: reviews The Dragons of Hazlett by Michelle L. Scott It is a wonderful murder mystery served along side a mound of political intrigue with a double helping of subtle romance. Read More »	OurHenHouse.com reviews Our Farm: By the Animals of Farm Sanctuary by Maya Gottfried Continuing with our childlike theme, we will talk with children’s book author and animal advocate, Maya Gottfried, about her new book, Our Farm, which is a... Read More »
Graham Kerr, the "Galloping Gourmet," culinary and television personality and award-winning author reviews An Apple Pie For Dinner by Susan VanHecke Loved the book. [VanHecke] has a real gift. Read More »	http://www.gayalliance.org/emptycloset/2010/07/book-review-blood-strangers/ reviews BLOOD STRANGERS: A Memoir by Kathy Briccetti Blood Strangers does what I had previously thought impossible of a memoir. It tells a story that is simultaneously heart-wrenching and heart-warming, profound and... Read More »
Night Owl Romance reviews Seduced by the Wolf by Terry Spear This is the fifth installment in Ms. Spear's werewolf stories. These stories keep getting better and better with each one. You will find yourself lusting after the... Read More »	Montserrat Review reviews By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives by Judith Tannenbaum ...the book does not ask for forgiveness. It does not set out with an agenda to condemn the prison system, create a social polemic, nor does it ask that we as... Read More »
The Miami Herald : A sampling of collections by Latinos reviews Girl on a Bridge by Suzanne Frischkorn Girl on a Bridge. Suzanne Frischkorn. Main Street Rag. 57 pages. $14 in paper. While the title of this collection might imply despair, the poems are filled with a... Read More »	Amazon reviews Zaftan Entrepreneurs by Hank Quense This first Zaftan story in a planned trilogy is one very unique take into fantasy/sci-fi. You can tell from the start, that it's going to poke fun at our elected... Read More »
Amazon reviews Zaftan Entrepreneurs by Hank Quense Quense also shows his keen interest in matters anthropological and ethnographic in his revealing of the origins of Gunderland in "a godly sneeze," termed the "Big... Read More »	420 Characters USA Today reviews 420 Characters by Lou Beach He became bored with status updates on Facebook, so he started writing "little fantasy pieces to amuse myself." The result is drawing rave reviews. Read More »