Published Reviews

The Guardian reviews Genesis Machines: The New Science of Biocomputing by Martyn Amos "Fascinating... Amos describes such experiments beautifully, combining laboratory drama with technical explanations. His lucid and punchy prose conveys a... Read More »	Fright.com reviews Sins of the Sirens: Fourteen Tales of Dark Desire by Loren Rhoads Rhoads's contributions are, it turns out, the most subtle of the entire book, which only grows steadily more perverse. Read More »
Austin Chronicle reviews Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique by Kelly DiNardo DiNardo successfully reintroduces a largely forgotten star, recounting her unbelievable life. For burlesque fans and aficionados of cultural history, Gilded Lili:... Read More »	Booklist reviews Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique by Kelly DiNardo Recent women's-studies interest in striptease has resuscitated the stars of the form during its mid-twentieth-century heyday, from Bettie Page to Gypsy Rose Lee.... Read More »
Library Journal reviews Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique by Kelly DiNardo Freelance journalist DiNardo provides a fun romp through the dancer’s colorful life—the clubs she played, the men she loved, the court cases she faced—yet also... Read More »	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 »

Rainbow Reviews reviews My Life With Stella Kane by Linda Morganstein Author Linda Morganstein delivers an enticing novel well-couched in Hollywood history with intriguing subplots such as Stella's deaf sister (who along with other... Read More »	Salon.com reviews American Son: A Novel by Brian Ascalon Roley In a searing look at the immigrant experience, two half-Filipino brothers navigate a California of small-time thieves, Mexican gangsters and attack dogs trained... Read More »
The Girls From Ames Winnipeg Free Press reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow became a household name with the publication of The Last Lecture, the non-fiction book he co-wrote with terminally ill... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews Shimmer by Eric Barnes This topical fiction debut from Memphis news publisher Barnes is a cautionary thriller about ambition and corruption in corporate America. Robbie Case, the 35-year... Read More »
The Review Broads reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas Poetic and lyrical, the novel aspires to create an impressive array of metaphor, mysticism, and reality within the juxtaposition of 8 protagonists, each depicting... Read More »	THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE reviews Mornings with Mailer by Dwayne Raymond Tender look at Mailer By Jan Gardner, Globe Correspondent January 31, 2010 Around Provincetown, Norman Mailer was known as a regular guy. He chatted with locals as... Read More »
Kirkus reviews The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli (STARRED) Soli, Tatjana THE LOTUS EATERS An impressive debut novel about a female photographer covering the Vietnam War. Helen Adams is an experienced... Read More »	Library Journal reviews I Was the Jukebox: Poems by Sandra Beasley Think Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath as read by Dorothy Parker, and you'll hear the fine-always passionate, sometimes sexual-ironies that make up Beasley's... Read More »
The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society Miscellanea and Ephemeron reviews Flesh and Grass by Libby Cone "...This is an exciting story, full of human characters and people brought out of history books as living beings. I’m going to be doing more reading about Cornelis... Read More »	Hamptons.com reviews The Art of Devotion by Samantha C Bruce-Benjamin "Haunting...a beautifully rendered window into one family's dark and complex history on an island in the Mediterranean Sea from the turn of the century until the... Read More »