Published Reviews

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 »
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 »	Library Journal reviews Blood of the Wicked by Leighton D Gage Gage’s inspector is a fascinating character, a man who once dispensed his own brand of Brazilian justice now charged with upholding the law of the land. Highly... Read More »
The New York Times reviews The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois and the Democratic Party’s new rock star, is that rare politician who can actually write—and write movingly and... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews Special Circumstances by Sheldon Siegel San Francisco attorney Siegel's debut pits a likable lead against a giant law firm run by villains and fools; the result is a well-made courtroom page-turner,... 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 »	Author Exposure reviews Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir by Sonya Huber I thought I knew what to expect from Cover Me by Sonya Huber, but I was so wrong. This book is much more than a diatribe about medical coverage in the United... Read More »
Front page of book reviews Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq by Michael Anthony "There are plenty of books about war, usually featuring the trigger-pullers who directly engage the enemy. Mass Casualties looks at war from a different angle,... Read More »	Front page of book reviews Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq by Michael Anthony "Michael Anthony's book Mass Casualties is unique and important. It is unique because it is written from the perspective of an army medic and provides insights... Read More »
Bookreporter.com reviews The Art of Devotion by Samantha C Bruce-Benjamin The Art of Devotion is a Bookreporter.com 2010 Staff Pick! Read More »	AfterEllen.com reviews On A Silver Platter by Linda Morganstein 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... Read More »
420 Characters Flavorwire reviews 420 Characters by Lou Beach From the great collagist and graphic designer Lou Beach comes a mischievous montage of a different sort: a tiny book filled with tiny stories, each having... Read More »	Minding Spot reviews Sleeper's Run by Henry Mosquera For those of you who enjoy this genre, Mosquera is definitely an author to keep an eye on. This is his first novel, but I foresee several more in the future. He... Read More »
420 Characters The Onion reviews 420 Characters by Lou Beach The old adage that a book shouldn’t be judged by its cover doesn’t hold true for 420 Characters. As a formal experiment, its packaging helps define how it... Read More »	Missio Authonomy reviews Missio by Tim Hewtson le Roux This reads so factually at times that it sounds true-life, which really is what drew me in. I thoroughly enjoyed the tone behind your MC's voice, he is a wee bit... Read More »