Published Reviews
The Guardian reviews
by Martyn Amos
"Fascinating... Amos describes such experiments beautifully, combining laboratory drama with technical explanations. His lucid and punchy prose conveys a...
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Fright.com reviews
by Loren Rhoads
Rhoads's contributions are, it turns out, the most subtle of the entire book, which only grows steadily more perverse.
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Austin Chronicle reviews
DiNardo successfully reintroduces a largely forgotten star, recounting her unbelievable life. For burlesque fans and aficionados of cultural history, Gilded Lili:...
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Booklist reviews
Recent women's-studies interest in striptease has resuscitated the stars of the form during its mid-twentieth-century heyday, from Bettie Page to Gypsy Rose Lee....
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Library Journal reviews
Freelance journalist DiNardo provides a fun romp through the dancer’s colorful life—the clubs she played, the men she loved, the court cases she faced—yet also...
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Publishers Weekly reviews
Contemporary “stripper chic” and the “neo-burlesque movement” have spurred new interest in Lili St. Cyr, one of America's best-known postwar striptease artists,...
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Publisher's Weekly reviews
As light and sweet as cotton candy, this saga of a pig in love will win over kids and grownups alike. Van Lieshout’s loosely drawn pen and ink illustrations,...
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Kirkus Reviews reviews
by Yuyi Morales
"Strong colors in reds, browns and dark blues with a sprinkling of starlight add to the mystical effect. Lovely"
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Booklist reviews
by Yuyi Morales
"Pura Belpre Award winner Morales has created a sumptuous feast of metaphors in her text: a bathtub filled with falling stars, a dress crocheted from clouds...
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http://www.j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/ reviews
ACROSS TIME by Linda Kay Silva is the second book I’ve run across this week where I felt inadequate as a reviewer. What both books had in common were historical...
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Adagio Verse Quarterly reviews
by Scott Owens
The Fractured World by Scott Owens deserves to be widely read both for its poetic and its social worth. These poems—so much more than a story of coming of age—are...
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Dirty Linen reviews
While Cochran's meteoric rise... is shown from an insider's view, his influence is felt through the author's self-examination.
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Kids' Corner reviews
Those Green Things is a great book to coax reluctant read-alouders into playing along.
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The Historical Novels Review reviews
by Eliza Graham
Eliza Graham, Macmillan New Writing, 2008, £14.99/C$24.95, 393pp, 9780230709133
In January 2006 Alix is tracked down by her birth son, Michael. He asks the...
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The Boston Globe reviews
"...Doyon, who lives in Maine, has written several young-adult series. She bridges the gap from youth to maturity with intelligence and sensitivity. Robert could...
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Romantic Times Magazine reviews
by Terry Spear
A solidly crafted werewolf story, this tale centers on pack problems in a refreshingly straightforward way. The characters are well drawn and believable, which...
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Portland Monthly Magazine reviews
"The hurly-burly of election season is upon us, so it's a smart idea to stock up on incendiary political debate. In case of a visit from your Limbaugh-loving Uncle...
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Indigo Editing reviews
Human Resources is the first collection of short stories by Josh Goldfaden. Goldfaden used alternating satire and sincerity to examine various attempts at meaning...
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Foreword Magazine reviews
Derr-Smith takes us everywhere: Damascus, Iowa, Berlin, the Boundary Waters, Chicago, Virginia, Cairo, Sam?s Club. And everywhere she goes, she paints a world rich...
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Victoria College Library reviews
"This slim (60 page) volume describes an interdisciplinary research project on an approximately 2,000 year old Egyptian mummy acquired by the Spurlock Museum on...
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