Published Reviews

BOOKLIST ONLINE reviews Enchantment: New and Selected Stories by Thaisa Frank The title of this collection hints at its contents—delectable stories with touches of the surreal as well as many plot twists and surprises. From short-short story... Read More »	Poetry International (online) http://pionline.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/beauty-and-its-blade-a-revie reviews "Beautiful Soon Enough" by Margo Berdeshevsky "Brevity... lushness and lyricism... This is a writer who understands the power of language." "...artfully sculpted fictions conveyed with astonishing phrasing....... Read More »
Gently Read Literature reviews Suspended Heart by Heather Fowler Heather Fowler is Kafka in drag, an American Marquez. If you are looking for a safe little book, one that lines up neatly with other short story collections... Read More »	Library Journal reviews The Seventh Gate by Richard Zimler Sophie Riedesel is a typical teenager, but her life of movies, bickering with her parents, and dating her boyfriend turns nightmarish when... Read More »
The Short Review reviews Suspended Heart by Heather Fowler Sometimes, just sometimes, from the scrolls of work I read online, I stumble across a story different enough to make me remember a name. Heather Fowler's such a... Read More »	ForeWord Reviews reviews People With Holes by Heather Fowler Fowler’s ability to make a reader believe all the strange things that happen in these stories is deft and precise. Some of the living beings are not human; and... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Radical Reinvention: An Unlikely Return to the Catholic Church by Kaya Oakes Growing up, Oakes (Slanted and Enchanted) felt many a dark night of the soul, though at the time she didn’t know to call it such, and rather than turn to God,... Read More »	Genre Go Round reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas This is a fascinating but extremely difficult tale to read as the narration switches nine times making the novel feel more like a series of short vignettes... Read More »
Last Bus to Vasco reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas If you want to know about Venezuela, read this book by Margaret Mascarenhas. Right now Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan President, is known for his resistance to the... Read More »	The Armenian Weekly reviews The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian "The scope of The Sandcastle Girls is almost epic. . .While there are the rich personal stories that his readers connect to, what he has achieved is much... Read More »

Beat Kirkus reviews Beat by amy l. boaz Boaz follows her debut (A Richer Dust, 2008) with another finely wrought novel rooted in literary history. Here it’s a member of the Beat Generation who... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews A Bitter Veil by Libby Fischer Hellmann The Iranian revolution provides the backdrop for this meticulously researched, fast-paced stand-alone from Hellmann (Set the Night on Fire). Anna Schroder, an... Read More »
The Book Lady's Blog reviews Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks "Months and Seasons" is a wonderful collection of short stories that reminded me why it is that I enjoy short fiction so much. Other reviewers have called Meeks’s... Read More »	Pretoria News reviews The Book of War by James Whyle "The Book of War is a stunning debut novel, well written and... powerfully disturbing." Read More »
Poets' Quartely, Issue 4, Winter 2011 reviews The Kingdom of Possibilities by Tim Mayo Such plain short poems (most only one page) and such simple titles (“The Beautiful Woman,” “The Last Gift”) … and so complex! Each poem is a Zen puzzle: dense,... Read More »	The Beacon reviews Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks by Bryant Simon “We buy things to say something about ourselves,” claims Bryant Simon in his book Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks. In these pages... Read More »
Library Journal reviews A Journey into the Transcendentalists' New England by Robert Todd Felton The third title in the ArtPlace series continues the publisher’s mission to incorporate biography, art and history into travel guides. This well-researched volume... Read More »	The Toronto Star reviews The Stubborn Season by Lauren B. Davis "A gleaming debut … a terrific first novel … compelling social history … This is a wonderful novel … every character is sincerely drawn; these sentences just... Read More »
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 »	www.ecataromance.com reviews A Sensible Match by Teryl S Cartwright Teryl Cartwright’s A Sensible Match takes us back to a world of arranged marriages and uncertain futures. Abby wanted love in her marriage and did not want to... Read More »