Published Reviews

Salt in Our Blood:The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife www.seafoodnews.com reviews Salt in Our Blood:The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife by Michele Longo Eder "What makes this book such compelling reading? It is that Michele exposes to us all what that sense of risk on the sea is all about. All of us think... Read More »	Shelf Awareness reviews Birds of Paradise Lost by Andrew Q Lam The 13 stories in Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost soar like birds in mid-flight, bridging the space between the dreamscape of Vietnam and the glass... Read More »
IndieReader reviews Depth of Deception (A Titanic Murder Mystery) by Alexander Galant Galant masterfully weaves together a multi-layered plot that doles out clues to keep the reader hooked and guessing. Each chapter moves from the story of one... Read More »	http://teamnerdreviews.blogspot.com/2013/02/book-review-clean-slate-accord-short.html# reviews The Clean Slate Accord by Sofia Diana Gabel Thursday, February 21, 2013 Book Review: The Clean Slate Accord (Short Story) by Sofia Diana Gabel http://teamnerdreviews.blogspot.com/2013/02/book-review... Read More »
Library Journal reviews Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History by Paul Schneider Schneider, Paul. Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History. Holt. Sept. 2013. 416p. ISBN 9780805091366. $35; ebk. ISBN... Read More »	KCET.org reviews Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry by Evie Shockley "Award-winning poet and UCLA English Professor Harryette Mullen is the subject of a compelling chapter; she also provided the inspiration for Shockley's title '... Read More »
Library Journal reviews KRYMSIN NOCTURNES by Joseph Armstead In a noir version of the present, a group of immortals known as Olympians engage in an ongoing struggle against a secret cabal of vampires, quasihumans whose... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews KRYMSIN NOCTURNES by Joseph Armstead Armstead (Darkness Fears) combines elements from Vampire: The Masquerade, hard-boiled detective novels, and techno-thrillers to create a fast-paced, entertaining... Read More »
North Carolina Literary Review reviews For One Who Knows How to Own Land by Scott Owens Most of the poems in For One Who Knows How to Own Land convey the pain of people learning to endure the circumstances of their life. However, the collection is a... Read More »	Huffington Post reviews Birds of Paradise Lost by Andrew Q Lam Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost captures the universal immigrant experience -- where versions of paradise are both lost and gained -- through the... Read More »

Lambda Literary reviews Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics by Urvashi Vaid The first line of Urvashi Vaid’s new book Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics (Magnus Books) is enough to... Read More »	City Pages reviews White Snake and Other Stories by Geling Yan In Yan's stories it is the small kindness, the brief, tender moment, that surmounts the walls. At these times her characters, no matter how recalcitrant, breathe... Read More »
Contemporary Literature - Volume 47, Number 4, Winter 2006, pp. 570-600 reviews The Lost Daughter of Happiness by Geling Yan Although the name Yan Geling may mean very little to U.S.-based academics, Yan is often commended by scholars in mainland China and Taiwan as one of the most... Read More »	New York Times Book Review reviews The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes Henry Gray, the man behind Gray’s Anatomy (he had the help of a fellow doctor who created the drawings), became Hayes’s obsession. He finds out as much as he can... Read More »
San Francisco Chronicle reviews Dying Words by Ken Conner "Much of 'Dying Words,' a new novel by former Chronicle City Editor Ken Conner (whose nom de plume is K. Patrick Conner), is set in the Chronicle newsroom. I... Read More »	Booklist reviews The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes by Gina Misiroglu Editor Misiroglu and her band of merry men (for, indeed, all the other contributing writers are male) have spent years writing about the topic, as researchers,... Read More »
San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes Bill Hayes has always been fascinated with the human body, but it wasn't until he audited anatomy classes at the University of California Medical Center that he... Read More »	The Asian Review of Books reviews The Banquet Bug aka The Uninvited by Geling Yan Yan leads the readers into a labyrinth of "phoney" things: freelance journalists from phantom newsgroups, flashing cameras that produce no photograph,... Read More »
The Guardian (UK) reviews The Banquet Bug aka The Uninvited by Geling Yan Isabel Hilton is entertained by Geling Yan's satirical take on contemporary China... ...Yan is not nostalgic for the years of socialism: her earlier work has been... Read More »	Amazon.com reviews Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File) by Aberjhani "The writing is superb. The passages are about 1-4 pages each, and they confront the reader with the snap, crackle and pop of concise, crisp journalistic prose."... Read More »