Published Reviews

Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind reviews All the Pretty Girls by JT Ellison So we come to the last of the Killer Year debut authors with a book out, and J.T. Ellison makes her mark right away. Taylor Jackson and John Baldwin have a... Read More »	Library Journal reviews All the Pretty Girls by JT Ellison With this debut thriller, Ellison puts her mentoring by Lee Child to good use. A serial killer named the Southern Strangler is making the rounds of several... Read More »
BookPage reviews All the Pretty Girls by JT Ellison Taylor Jackson and Whitney Connolly are two sides of the same coin. While both are beautiful blondes from the wealthy Nashville neighborhood of Belle Meade, the... Read More »	TIME Magazine Europe reviews The Banquet Bug aka The Uninvited by Geling Yan Thus begins Dan's career in journalism — and Geling Yan's shark-fin-sharp satire on cuisine and corruption in contemporary China. Read More »
The Guardian (UK) reviews The Banquet Bug aka The Uninvited by Geling Yan Isabel Hilton is entertained by Geling Yan's satirical take on contemporary China... ...Yan is not nostalgic for the years of socialism: her earlier work has been... Read More »	The New York Times reviews The Lost Daughter of Happiness by Geling Yan Yan's use of shifting perspectives -- including that of the narrator herself, who confesses her ''surprise'' at the unpredictable behavior of her imagined... Read More »
New York Times reviews The Banquet Bug aka The Uninvited by Geling Yan Geling Yan’s sly comic novel about the excesses — culinary and otherwise — of modern life in the Chinese capital... Although it may seem fantastical, her fiction... Read More »	The Economist reviews The Lost Daughter of Happiness by Geling Yan There is no single authentic voice of Chinese fiction. And that may very well be a good thing. ONE clear fact emerged from the controversy over Gao... Read More »
Contemporary Literature - Volume 47, Number 4, Winter 2006, pp. 570-600 reviews The Lost Daughter of Happiness by Geling Yan Although the name Yan Geling may mean very little to U.S.-based academics, Yan is often commended by scholars in mainland China and Taiwan as one of the most... Read More »	City Pages reviews White Snake and Other Stories by Geling Yan In Yan's stories it is the small kindness, the brief, tender moment, that surmounts the walls. At these times her characters, no matter how recalcitrant, breathe... 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 »	http://toddswift.blogspot.com/2010/10/featured-poet-dean-rader.html reviews Works & Days (winner 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize) by Dean Rader Rader is an American poet that readers in Britain should begin to get onto their radars, to state the blinkin' obvious. Read More »
Darhk Portal reviews Dreaming of the Wolf by Terry Spear Okay, apparently the book gods saw me in my distress over my dilema with the less than hotness level in the recent books... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life by Sandra Beasley In this intelligent and witty memoir, poet Beasley (I Was the Jukebox) recounts her lifelong struggle to live a normal life while waging a battle against deadly... Read More »
There's a Dead Guy in My Living Room (blog) reviews Dogs Don't Lie by Clea Simon Simon’s book has the sharp kind of character detail I think she herself appreciates. Her crisp writing and polished plot are a pleasure from start to finish. Read More »	Cindy's Love of Books reviews Sleeper's Run by Henry Mosquera SPOILER ALERT! All I have to say is wow! I was pleasantly surprised by the book and how much I really enjoyed it. Its fast paced and it literally sucks you in... Read More »
Borders.com reviews Creative Acts of Healing: after a baby dies by Judith Van Praag Creative Acts of Healing is an eloquent testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Van Praag provides the reader with an autobiographical account of the... Read More »	Mom's Point of View reviews Gertrude's Broken Wand (Marmalade Book 1) by Jason Thibeault I loved that my kids begged for more when we stopped for the night. My kids sighed and said “Awe mom!” They wanted me to keep reading. There are not many books... Read More »
Lynchburg Coupon Mama reviews Gertrude's Broken Wand (Marmalade Book 1) by Jason Thibeault Marmalade is a book that today’s child is sure to love! Just from the back cover, I felt a flood of memories come back about books and movies including Alice in... Read More »	Reviews by Amos Lassen reviews On A Silver Platter by Linda Morganstein I have been reading Linda Morganstein for about three or four years now and the only problem that I have is that when I finish one, I have to wait a while until... Read More »