Published Reviews
Voya reviews
VOYA-Starred Review April 2007
Beaudoin, Sean. Going Nowhere Fast. Little,...
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Breast Cancer Action News reviews
by Lori Hope
Hope [is] first and foremost is a great storyteller. If you invited her to a dinner party, you would actually encourage her to share her observations on cancer as...
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CURE magazine reviews
by Lori Hope
Even though I am a 20-year survivor, I needed to be reminded about what people in the throes of cancer need, and Lori Hope’s book is...
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McSweeneys.net reviews
Readers of the quarterly know Ms. Ehrhardt's stories from Issues 14 and 16, and now there's a whole book of them together in one place, which is very convenient....
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Time Out Chicago reviews
Her characters, all living in or around New Orleans, are flawed and selfish, and yet it’s impossible to avert one’s gaze. Each story is like a perfectly wrapped...
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Narrative Magazine reviews
On occasion, the narrator looks around the room, and Ehrhardt has a gift for lucid description that has the hyperreal effect of a still life, causing one to...
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The Philadelphia Inquirer reviews
Refreshingly, Ehrhardt doesn't string the reader along with inflated prose or over-the-top characterizations. Her stories are clean, sharp-edged, and imbued with...
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The New York Times reviews
The collection’s most successful story, “The Longest Part of the Day,” moves between the point of view of 15-year-old Jilly, who goes missing when she takes a ride...
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New Orleans Times-Picayune reviews
All readers recognize it when they hear it -- the siren song of the truth teller, the voice that will lead you someplace new, summoning you to an experience that...
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The Washington Post reviews
by Bill Hayes
Like any good teacher, Hayes has a knack for metaphor. The still, close air in an anatomy lab is "like the gym of the dead." A lung is "a wet mound...
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Borders.com reviews
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...
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Mom's Point of View reviews
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...
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Quiet Corner Book Reviews reviews
Gertrude’s Broken Wand was a great book. I thought the book would be about a girl named Gertrude but really it was about Rebecca who breaks Gertrude’s wand. I...
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Reviews by Amos Lassen reviews
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...
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AfterEllen.com reviews
Linda Morganstein’s Alexis Pope mystery series is filled with intrigue, humor and genuine suspense...As with the two previous Alexis Pope books, On A Silver...
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Mother Jones reviews
by Lou Beach
"It says 'shit,'" observes my six-year-old, spotting Jonathan Lethem's cover blurb: "Holy sh*t! These are great!" And they are. Rendered as Facebook updates in...
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Amazon.co.uk reviews
Sometimes a book is so unusual it defies categorisation. This is such a novel. Tim Roux has merged the reality of life in parts of England, with a fantasy that...
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Authonomy reviews
This is a fascinating take on the Jekyl and Hyde scenario, and one with which a lot of readers will associate, if not empathise, given that we all dream to be...
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Amazon.com reviews
I often hear people complaining that there is an identikit trend in publishing these days. Everything is a re-hash of something else. We have the sparkly vampire...
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Crimespree Magazine reviews
"Hellmann crafts a tragically beautiful story around a message that is both subtle and vibrant. The author does an amazing job of delivering her point but never...
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