Published Reviews

Booklist Reviews reviews Running Book Discussion Groups: A How To Do It Manual by Lauren John Author John, a librarian, book reviewer, writer, and experienced book-group leader, believes in the power of good book groups. Her book provides a detailed step-by... Read More »	Dallas Morning News reviews Praise from a Future Generation: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the First Generation Critics of the Warren Report by John Kelin Millions were drawn to their radios and televisions on the weekend of Nov. 22, 1963, and some were already questioning the police assessments of the assassination... Read More »
labloga.blogspot.com reviews A Movie in My Pillow/ Una Pelicula en mi Almohada by Jorge Argueta A Movie in My Pillow/ Una película en mi almohada is a collection of 21 poems written by Salvadoran author Jorge Argueta. In these poems Jorge Argueta evokes the... Read More »	ginasblogging.blogspot.com reviews Xochitl and the Flowers/ Xochitl la Nina de las Flores by Jorge Argueta Xochitl and her family have come from El Salvador and are missing home very much. They live in San Francisco's Mission District and what they miss most of all are... Read More »
San Francisco Chronicle reviews Blood of Paradise by David Corbett Oscar Wilde once quipped that the truth is rarely pure and never simple. Amen to that, says "Blood of Paradise," David Corbett's powerful and deeply... Read More »	Washington Post reviews Blood of Paradise by David Corbett Before he began writing novels, David Corbett spent 15 years as an operative with a San Francisco private investigation firm, an experience that left him without... Read More »
Kirkus Reviews reviews On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction by Karl Iagnemma Meteoric, and still going up. Read More »	Vignettes of Indian English Literature reviews With Krishna's Eyes by Sunny Singh Sunny Singh’s new English-language novel, With Krishna’s Eyes, is a disturbing and eloquent exploration of the dark side of “Shining India”, in which the modern... Read More »
Library Journal reviews The Bitch Posse by Martha O'Connor Not for the faint of heart, this debut novel will keep readers glued to the very last page. Read More »	Red (UK) reviews The Bitch Posse by Martha O'Connor A crackling story. Read More »

The Girls From Ames More Magazine reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow Jeffrey Zaslow, a Wall Street Journal columnist, took a year off from his job so he could travel around the country to study the 40-year friendship of 11 women... Read More »	The Girls From Ames Penguin.com reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow Read More »
AMAZON reviews A TALE OF THREE CITIES: THE 1962 BASEBALL SEASON IN NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES, AND SAN FRANCISCO by Steven Robert Travers Steven Travers captures the essence of the 1962 season in Major League baseball, while painting a vivid picture of the changes taking place in American society.... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews This Lovely Life by Vicki Forman Forman’s enormously affecting memoir—winner of the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Bakeless Prize—about the drastic disabilities of her extremely premature child... Read More »
The Commercial Appeal reviews Shimmer by Eric Barnes "...a sheen of elegance and terror; one is reminded, in Barnes' language and locution, of Don DeLillo's scalpel-sharp delineation of American corporate culture and... 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 »
Publishers Weekly reviews Winter of Secrets by Vicki Delany Starred Review. The discovery early one Christmas morning of the bodies of best friends Jason Wyatt-Yarmouth and Ewan Williams, two privileged young men from... Read More »	The Oregonian reviews Mornings with Mailer by Dwayne Raymond "Throughout his final years, Mailer's mind was as sharp as ever and the work ethic that produced more than 40 books remained strong. He was also generous and... Read More »
Booklist Review reviews Please ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King High-school senior Vera never expects her ex-best friend, Charlie, to haunt her after he dies, begging her to clear his name of a horrible accusation surrounding... Read More »	Booklist reviews Do They Know I'm Running? by David Corbett Starred Review: "[I]n this powerful, evocative, character-driven novel, [Corbett] has written what should be a breakout success. . . Readers who devour and then... Read More »