Published Reviews

The Girls From Ames Northfield News reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow NORTHFIELD — For much of her life, Northfield resident Kelly Zwagerman has shared a 40-year friendship with 10 other women from her high school. They’ve been there... Read More »	Threepercent reviews I'd like by Amanda Michalopoulou A master of metafictional writing reminiscent of the French nouveau roman writers of the ’50s and in particular Marguerite Duras, Greece’s Amanda Michalopoulou... Read More »
The Quarterly Conversation reviews I'd like by Amanda Michalopoulou Wonderfully polymorphous—is it novel, fictional biography, short story collection, or other?—and incredibly promiscuous in its tones and registers—vacillating with... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews Happiness Key by Emilie Richards After Tracy Deloche's ex-husband lands in federal prison, she takes control of his Happiness Key development, which consists mostly of a handful of ramshackle... Read More »
Armchair Interviews reviews To Tempt the Wolf by Terry Spear An award-winning author of medieval historical romantic suspense treats us to a magical romance of a werewolf and a human, and how love can conquer all. Tess... Read More »	Library Journal reviews The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim Kim, Eugenia. The Calligrapher’s Daughter. Holt. Aug. 2009. c.400p. ISBN 978-0-8050-8912-7. $26. F Kim’s debut is the first-person chronicle of Najin, a young... Read More »
Seattlest reviews Forgetting English: Stories by Midge Raymond Forgetting English is a wonderfully written, powerful compilation of short stories. After reading it, we're not surprised at all that the collection was the winner... Read More »	Now Magazine reviews The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki Hal Niedzviecki’s new book coins the term “peep culture” and harnesses a ton of research – as well as his impressive analytical skills – in a way that’s sure to... Read More »
The Globe and Mail reviews The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors by Hal Niedzviecki I hate Facebook. I've grown to dread the banal, relentless churn of it: the minutiae of people's status updates, the way it turns otherwise decent people into... Read More »	The Seattle Times reviews Forgetting English: Stories by Midge Raymond Raymond's prose often lights up the poetry-circuits of the brain, less because of lyrical language and more due to things that work as both literal and symbolic... Read More »

Midwest Book Review - Small Press Bookwatch reviews Love At Absolute Zero by Christopher Meeks Thermodynamics are nothing; it's that love thing that is so frustratingly hard to figure out. Love at Absolute Zero is a novel following Gunnar Gunderson, a... Read More »	Doubleshot Reviews reviews The Prodigal Hour by Will Entrekin Journeying across time Cassie and, especially, Chance will be challenged as to what is right and what is wrong and the consequences of changing history and... Read More »
Book jacket reviews The Estrangement Of The Rain God, 2nd Edition by Michael Warren In The Estrangement Of The Rain God Michael Warren shows, with enviable skill, the structure of a close-knit and happy family. Then, with the aid of clues and... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews The Elevator Family by Douglas Evans From Kirkus Reviews: An endearingly eccentric family settles into the elevator and hearts of the patrons and employees at the San Francisco Hotel in this over-the-... Read More »
Library Journal reviews Murder on the Run by Gloria White “Both polite and profane, idealistic and hard-boiled, Ventana is a satisfying heroine....Recommended.” Read More »	The Agony Column reviews Scattered, Covered, Smothered (editor, with Janet Chui) by Jason Erik Lundberg What could easily be one of the smartest, coolest and best anthologies to show up in 2004 . . . This is one of those rockin' really weird Rick-books that you... Read More »
Library Journal reviews Negotiation Generation by Lynne Griffin Many parenting experts agree that spanking is never a good way to discipline a child. In its stead, they have recommended using methods like time-outs and... Read More »	Red Room reviews Shiva's Arms by Cheryl L Snell The true challenge of Shiva’s Arms is to recognize that it is a very ambitious—indeed, innovative piece of writing. It is an experiment in what I would call a... Read More »
East Bay Express ("Best of" Issue) reviews Crazy for Kanji: A Student's Guide to the Wonderful World of Japanese Characters by Eve Kushner Impassioned otaku eager to devour their beloved manga in the original Nihongo have a friend in Eve Kushner. Although the Berkeley Japanophile adores every last... Read More »	http://www.redroom.com/blog/nancybrady/book-review-mcgowans-retreat reviews McGowan's Retreat by Robert B. Smith It is a satisfying ride of a novel reminding me, at times, of David Baldacci. Like a roller coaster ride, I want to read it again to catch all the nuances I may... Read More »