Published Reviews

MungBeing Magazine reviews "Iron" by Zarina Zabrisky "It’s rare to find so many layers in a collection of short stories that draw from so many elements such as myth, pathos, symbolism, philosophic thought, tragedy... Read More »	Dallas Morning News reviews What Happened To My Sister by Elizabeth Flock "I honestly thought Me & Emma was about as perfect a book as I could ever want to read, with absolutely no need for a follow-up. But now that I’ve read What... Read More »
The Writer Magazine reviews The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing by Martha Stockton Alderson Martha Alderson, a.k.a "The Plot Whisperer," has been a nationally recognized plot consultant for 15 years. Here she offers loads of exercises to help writers... Read More »	A Mommy's Place reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall Here’s what’s up with the BlogHer Book Club these days: My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate and David Marshall. Not so much a book to... Read More »
Angela Amman reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall Untangling the different strands of my life goals can seem daunting at times. With only so many hours in a day and so many weeks in a year, I can fall into the... Read More »	lil' Burghers reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall If you asked me what I wanted to be when I was 5, I would have said a veterinarian. When I was 18, that changed to a teacher. Now at 29, I am happy in... Read More »
Kapachino reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall I’m someone who thrives when I have goals and a plan in place to get there. Not just for the big stuff like my family, education, and career, but for little things... Read More »	Unintentially Brilliant reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall When I was in high school, we had a project where we had to make a timeline of our life. Birth to death, and everything in between. I got married, had two children... Read More »
Complex Mom reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall To say that reading this book may have caused some sleepless nights and a little hyperventilation on my part is an understatement. Telling someone who is notorious... Read More »	BlogHer.com reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall When we embark on a trip, we're far more likely to make it to our destination easily if we know our starting point and plan a route to our destination. We plot our... Read More »

Studio: The OnLine Literary Journal reviews The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems by Ned Balbo The writer we know by the name Edgar Allan Poe famously refers again and again to a central fear of being buried alive. Ned Balbo—who shares with Poe some vital... Read More »	American Studies International, Vol XXXVIII, no. 1, pp. 61-71 reviews The Lost Daughter of Happiness by Geling Yan Scholarly article by Prof. Pin-chia Feng, Chair of Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan. Prof. Feng suggests a... Read More »
http://donalisahelsley.blogspot.com/2012/05/from-my-bookshelf-to-yours-gimme-jimmy.html reviews Gimme-Jimmy by Sherrill S Cannon Sherrill does it again! She has written another great book that will teach children morals in an enjoyable, non preachy way. Gimme-Jimmy is beautifully rhymed... Read More »	National Geographic Traveler Online reviews TALES FROM THE EXPAT HAREM: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey (edited with Jennifer Eaton Gokmen) by Anastasia M Ashman Tales from the Expat Harem, edited by Anastasia Ashman and Jennifer Eaton Gokmen (Seal Press, 2006)Follow the journeys of 29 women as they discover Turkey and its... Read More »
The San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Painting by Nina Schuyler According to the tenets of Buddhism, life is suffering, and suffering arises inexorably from desire, from the act of wanting. In Nina Schuyler's meditative first... Read More »	The Asian Review of Books reviews Crazy for Kanji: A Student's Guide to the Wonderful World of Japanese Characters by Eve Kushner Eve Kushner, a self-described kanji fanatic, presents excellent learning strategies in her guide.... It helps to be as crazy about kanji as she is; even one of her... Read More »
"The Image of History: The Literary Presentation of the Early History of Chinese American in Yan Gel reviews The Lost Daughter of Happiness by Geling Yan Read More »	Historical Novel Review Online (August - November quarter 2008) reviews THE WOLF AND THE LAMB, Book One of the Berkeley Trilogy by Rosy Cole Mary Cole, a butcher’s daughter from Gloucester, is ignorant of the ways of the world. In a time when men of the aristocracy had “official” mistresses, the... Read More »
The Irish Times reviews The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot S. Mifflin “One can read this work of non-fiction as if it were a sensational novel – with progressive feminist implications.” Read More »	Journal of Law and Society Volume 36, Issue 4, pages 599–606, December 2009 reviews Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal by Ugo Mattei PLUNDER: WHEN THE RULE OF LAW IS ILLEGAL by UGO MATTEI AND LAURA NADER {Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008, 283 pp., £50,00 (hbk), £19.99 (pbk)) How should one see the... Read More »