Published Reviews

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 »	NewPages.com reviews Brown Glass Windows by devorah major Brown Glass Windows by Devorah Major is one of those novels told partly through the confines of the conventional prose story form and... Read More »
literarysunday.org reviews Brown Glass Windows by devorah major I've been waiting a long time for this and it is a privilege and a pleasure to state that Devorah Major's new novel Brown Glass Window is out... Read More »	Metroactive.com reviews An Open Weave by devorah major If time were liquid, An Open Weave would be decades of warm sweet milk, deliciously consumed in one day. San Francisco poet devorah major's first novel is... Read More »
TimeOut (New York) reviews Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine By the time Eleanor Roosevelt rips into Tom Cruise and tells him to just shut up, it’s clear that Koolaids: The Art of War is not exactly a linear novel. In... Read More »	Sunday Herald reviews Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine A book that refuses despair by the sheer exuberance and inventiveness of its style. The topics may seem gloomy---the impact of the Aids epidemic and the... Read More »

Out -numbered 3 to 1 reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas Irene dos Santos disappeared at age 15. Believed to have drowned while on holiday with her best friend, Lily Martinez, her body was never found. Now, years later,... Read More »	Bookpage reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas In The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos, Margaret Mascarenhas’ American debut, the feminine mystique is juxtaposed with revolutionary chaos in the remote rural... Read More »
The Journal of Family Life reviews Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond by Jane Satterfield How do people negotiate their transitions to parenthood? Do they simply step into a role similar to what they have seen in sitcom families, mothers nurturing the... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews Every Little Thing In The World by Nina de Gramont Sixteen-year-old Sydney has just learned that a casual fling has left her pregnant (“I hadn't felt like I knew him well enough to remind him about the condom issue... Read More »
News Bureau, University of Illinois reviews The Fall of Augustus by Sarah U. Wisseman "Wisseman teaches an anthropology course and is director of the Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials at the University of Illinois. 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 »
Children's Bookwatch reviews Santa's Birthday Gift by Sherrill S Cannon "Santa's Birthday Gift" is a charming children's Christmas book that explains origins of Santa's role in connection... 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 »
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 »	Being Alison reviews Sleeper's Run by Henry Mosquera Right from the start of the book you will be on the edge of your seat. It’s filled with surprises, energy and great dynamic. Henry describes location and fight... Read More »