Published Reviews

The New Yorker reviews The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings Hemmings channels the voice of her befuddled middle-aged hero with virtuosity... Read More »	The Guardian reviews The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings Kaui Hart Hemmings's first novel manages to both be shockingly irreverent and funny while exerting that all-important emotional tug. Read More »
BookPage reviews And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You by Kathi Kamen Goldmark Kathi Kamen Goldmark has written a fast-paced, wisecracking debut novel that takes readers on the road and backstage for an intimate look at the country music... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You by Kathi Kamen Goldmark Goldmark takes an offbeat spin through the world of country music in her charming debut...the combination of Goldmark's playful humor, her smooth prose style and... Read More »
The Christian Science Monitor reviews West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary On Sept.12, Tamim Ansary, an Afghan American who lives in the Bay Area, listened with dismay as men and women phoned in to a talk radio show, calling for the US to... Read More »	Seattle Weekly reviews West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary ON SEPT. 12 of last year, a San Franciscan named Tamim Ansary was driving to work as talk-radio callers demanded, among other things, a nuclear assault on... Read More »
The New York Times reviews West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary In the weeks after Sept. 11, when the television screens were filled with the certainties and chiseled uncertainties of the talking heads —... Read More »	"O" Magazine reviews And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You by Kathi Kamen Goldmark If your secret desire is to live in a world where bad men are punished and your girlfriends rule and the best cure for a broken heart is to throw back your head... Read More »
New York Times Book Review reviews You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett WHATEVER troubles me about the nine stories in Adam Haslett's first collection, or about the sensibility of their youngish author (he's in his early 30's), has... Read More »	Booklist reviews THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE by Julie Buxbaum In the space of a few weeks, Emily Haxby breaks up with her longtime boyfriend, leaves her job at a corporate law firm, and learns that her beloved grandfather... Read More »

New York Times reviews Talking in the Dark by Laura Glen Louis The individuals in Laura Glen Louis's ''Talking in the Dark'' may be Chinese-Americans new to the West Coast, but more than anything else they are characters for... Read More »	BookPleasures reviews Waltzing Australia by Cynthia A Clampitt Waltzing Australia is a splendid travelogue that delivers in spades and anyone contemplating a trip to “Down Under,” or even armchair travelers, would be more than... Read More »
Publisher's Weekly reviews I Was the Jukebox: Poems by Sandra Beasley More fun than most recent books, Beasley's second collection can also get quite serious: in the best parts, the poet pretends she is any number of nonhuman things—... Read More »	AARP Magazine reviews Breaking Out of Bedlam: A Novel by Leslie Larson “Tough-edged Cora Sledge, 82, is a reluctant resident of The Palisades nursing home—a prison [where] your only crime is you lived too long.” Her tell-all journal,... Read More »
Shelf Awareness reviews How to Get Divorced by 30: My Misguided Attempt at a Starter Marriage by Sascha Rothchild In How to Get Divorced by 30, Rothchild recalls her walk down the aisle at 27 and the decision she made to end the union less than three years later. But there's... Read More »	http://www.bookaddictpatti.com/2010/11/review-wolf-fever-by-terry-spear.html reviews Wolf Fever by Terry Spear My thoughts: I really enjoy reading Terry Spear's wolves; she is very good at making the wolf come across in their human counterparts. I love her Alpha males, and... Read More »
Peter and the Whimper-Whineys Biblio Reads Children's Book Review reviews Peter and the Whimper-Whineys by Sherrill S Cannon Ohhhhh, where was this book when I needed it most? This one is for parents! Oh, sure the kids will enjoy it and learn something from it, but that is exactly why it... Read More »	Biblio Reads Children's Book Review reviews Santa's Birthday Gift by Sherrill S Cannon I gotta tell you that I really love Sherrill's rhyme and way with words. This is the second book of hers that I have reviewed and I heartily recommend her as a... Read More »
The Psychedelic Press UK reviews White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg by Peter Conners "The White Hand Society is a truly exciting book in the sense that Conners has managed to bring forward the pulsing energy of those exciting times and textually... Read More »	Crime Time (England) reviews The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler Many books have attempted to pull off the remarkable trick that Umberto Eco achieved so memorably in The Name of the Rose: embedding a highly compulsive historical... Read More »