Published Reviews

The New York Times reviews In One Person by John Irving “We are formed by what we desire,” says Billy Dean, the fatherless narrator and chief hero of John Irving’s 13th novel, “In One Person.” Irving likes to track his... Read More »	Le Courrier (Switzerland) reviews The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler Dans Les Anagrammes de Varsovie, Richard Zimler allie avec virtuosité les dimensions fictives et historiques. Sur une toile de fond relatant d’authentiques... Read More »
SF Chronicle reviews Birds of Paradise Lost by Andrew Q Lam Elizabeth Rosner March 31, 2013 Birds of Paradise LostStoriesBy Andrew Lam(Red Hen; 200 pages; $15.95 paperback) Several decades have passed since harrowing... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays by Elinor Lipman In charming and often self-deprecating fashion, novelist Lipman (The View from Penthouse B) has penned an engaging and moving series of essays about her life—... Read More »
Kirkus Reviews reviews I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays by Elinor Lipman "Accomplished novelist Lipman exposes her journalistic roots by collecting over 30 "(all too) personal" essays and columns that have appeared in a number of... Read More »	Barbara Ann Mojica's Blog on Wordpress reviews How the Moon Regained Her Shape by Janet Ruth Heller Read More »
Gypsy Escapades The Telegraph (newspaper), Calcutta, India reviews Gypsy Escapades by William Jackson GYPSY ESCAPADES (Rupa, Rs 250) by William J. Jackson is the story of four friends from different cultures who travel across India — the “land of poverty and... Read More »	Gypsy Escapades Kirkus Reviews reviews Gypsy Escapades by William Jackson An American graduate student in India teams up with an intelligence agent and others to prevent a crisis that could spark bloody chaos. When Jill Rothchild, an... Read More »
Mysteries in Paradise reviews Death Lies Beneath by Pauline Rowson Pauline Rowson is an excellent constructor of false trails and DEATH LIES BENEATH is no exception. Ex-con Darryl Woodley's death results in a funeral which... Read More »	Stanford Law Review reviews Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz by Barbara Babcock Called “Portia of the Pacific,” Clara Shortridge Foltz, who lived from 1849 until 1934, was the first woman admitted to the practice of law in California, and... Read More »

Sunday New York Times Book Review reviews Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure by Julia Flynn Siler "...a solidly researched account of an important chapter in our national history, one that most Americans don’t know but should. It will probably provoke... Read More »	Just Us Girls reviews Sleeper's Run by Henry Mosquera Sleeper’s Run was fast paced and exciting. I think it would make a great movie. Read More »
Book Cover reviews Healing and Transformation Through Self Guided Imagery by Leslie Davenport Davenport's work is insightful, original and eminently useful for people of all ages and professions. Read More »	Road- to-Health.com reviews Joy of Not Working: A Book for the Retired, Unemployed and Overworked - 21st Century Edition by Ernie J. Zelinski The Joy of Not Working by Ernie Zelinski (Ten Speed Press). This book does not come up on Internet searches for retirement books. Why? Because "retirement... Read More »
Los Angeles Times reviews The Marriage of True Minds by Stephen Evans When a novel opens with the scene of an indoor pool filled with lobsters and enough ice to keep them alive, and the environmental attorney who rigged this stunt in... Read More »	Reuters News Agency reviews REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse by Margie McKinnon Repair Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse POSTED: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 FROM BLOG: Reader Views - Book reviews, for readers... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Praise from a Future Generation: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the First Generation Critics of the Warren Report by John Kelin For more than 40 years, a small band of self-anointed investigators have made a cottage industry out of critiquing the Warren Commission Report on the... Read More »	The New York Times reviews Odd Duck by Cecil Castellucci What makes for a good old ordinary duck? Is it eating “everyday duck pellets”? Checking out “A History of Good Ducks” from the library? Theodora thinks so, and... Read More »
Ain't It Cool News reviews Egg Story by J Marc Schmidt "It's unique, very nicely drawn, and awfully funny. And I guarantee you don't have anything else like it." Read More »	California Literary Review reviews Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China by Shouhua Qi "Descriptive or spare, crazy or controlled – there is seemingly no rhyme or reason to a Chinese author’s choice of subject or approach today. Though their stories... Read More »