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 »

aethlon reviews Final Fenway Fiction: More Short Stories from Red Sox Nation by Matthew Michael Hanlon Although the term "fan fiction" might strike some as praise that is as faintly damning as "journeyman pitcher" or "utility infielder," the stories in Final... Read More »	Caught Between the Pages reviews Sleeper's Run by Henry Mosquera I’ve really been looking forward to reading more novels like this lately so when I had the opportunity to read Sleeper’s Run I jumped on it! I got the action and... Read More »
NPR.org reviews Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex by Ellen Sussman NPR.org, July 2, 2008 · There are books, and then there are "Books We Like." Each week in Books We Like, our critics review their top picks for new fiction and... Read More »	The New York Times reviews The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois and the Democratic Party’s new rock star, is that rare politician who can actually write—and write movingly and... Read More »
BC Bookworld reviews The Empress and Mrs. Conger: The Uncommon Friendship of Two Women and Two Worlds by Grant Hayter-Menzies In life, one of Sarah’s goals was to understand China and its people, and she succeeds. In "The Empress and Mrs. Conger", Hayter-Menzies succeeds at understanding... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews The Singers of Nevya by Louise Marley "A rich story of cultural revolution. The singers of the ice planet Nevya use their musical psi-powers to hold back the deadly cold. In Sing the Light, young... Read More »
BookPage reviews All the Pretty Girls by JT Ellison Taylor Jackson and Whitney Connolly are two sides of the same coin. While both are beautiful blondes from the wealthy Nashville neighborhood of Belle Meade, the... Read More »	The New York Times reviews The Satanic Verses: A Novel by Salman Rushdie Talent? Not in question. Big talent. Ambition? Boundless ambition. Salman Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies,... Read More »
The New York Times reviews The True Sources of the Nile by Sarah Stone Sarah Stone's fine first novel is about a love affair between Anne Copeland, a 37-year-old Californian doing human rights work in central Africa, and Jean-Pierre... Read More »	The Association for the Study of Play Review, Vol. 30, No. 3 reviews Outdoor Play: Teaching Strategies with Young Children by Jane P Perry In this era of high-stakes testing, play is viewed by a growing number of school officials as a misuse of instructional time. I regularly receive emails from... Read More »