Published Reviews

China Insight reviews Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants by John Jung The “Chop Suey Craze” that engulfed large American and Canadian cities in the early decades of the 20th century (see http://www.asian-studies.org/eaa/... Read More »	Huffington Post reviews Barbed-Wire Butterflies by Jessica Kristie On first glance, Jessica Kristie's debut novel has a distinct Dickens' like narrative: Kidnapped pre-teen children living out a meager existence as slave labor of... Read More »
PowellsBooks.Blog http://www.powells.com/blog/contributors/my-favorite-poetry-books-of-the-past-year reviews "Between Soul and Stone" by Margo Berdeshevsky "One of my all-time favorite poets...Her latest book, Between Soul and Stone, is incredible. This may sound trite, but I can't help but identify Berdeshevsky's... Read More »	http://ghettosun.com/2012/12/19/soulful-ii-in-review/ reviews "Iron" by Zarina Zabrisky "And then there was the Russian literary sensation Zarina Zabrisky. I could use a thousand fancy adjectives to describe how amazing her performance was but... Read More »
Los Angeles Review of Books reviews How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance by Marilyn Yalom DID THE FRENCH INVENT LOVE? Or would it be more true to say that love is endlessly reinvented every moment, in every culture, every epoch? What the French did is... Read More »	The South Carolina Review reviews For One Who Knows How to Own Land by Scott Owens Owens's style is direct, unadorned, and consists of simple sentence, followed by a comma, then one clause and another and another . . . . There is absolutely no... Read More »
The Momus Report reviews All You Bastards Can Go Jump Off a Bridge! by J Marc Schmidt "...heartfelt and occasionally raw in its observational detail." "All You Bastards... shows how far Schmidt is willing to push the boat out to develop his craft -... Read More »	Midwest Book Review reviews Patagonia Chronicle: On Foot in Torres del Paine by Susan Alcorn Patagonia Chronicle: On Foot in Torres del Paine is an engaging travelogue about the 2009 adventure that author Susan Alcorn and her husband had following the... Read More »
Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34 No. 2 reviews Geographies of Light by Lisa Suhair Majaj The theme of light and geography throughout the volume plots the layers of family and history through three continents and over several generations.... Read More »	Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34 No. 2 reviews Geographies of Light by Lisa Suhair Majaj The theme of light and geography throughout the volume plots the layers of family and history through three continents and over several generations. The... Read More »

Metropolis reviews Midori By Moonlight by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga So what did this male reviewer think of Midori? I loved it, and didn’t put it down till I reached the last page. Read More »	New York Times reviews The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor In her book, ''The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times,'' published in May by Princeton University Press, Adrienne Mayor draws on a close... Read More »
The Statesman reviews A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan by Farzana Versey There’s a saying in Hindi which goes: dhobi ka kutta, na ghar ka, na ghat ka. The washerman's dog doesn't know where he belongs, whether at home or at the ghats... Read More »	Los Angeles Times reviews Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel by Merrill Markoe There was a time when Merrill Markoe worried that Stupid Pet Tricks, the goofy segment she created for “Late Night With David Letterman,” would be the sum total of... Read More »
Goodreads reviews Love At Absolute Zero by Christopher Meeks With some books, you can sense in advance that you are in for a reader's treat, that you will be taken outside your normal reading zone and sent on an involving... Read More »	FanBoyWonder reviews The Huntress: Year One #2 "La Donna e Mobile" by Ivory Madison The Upshot From DC Comics: Helena Bertinelli's vow never to return to Gotham is tested by her vigilante fight to reclaim her inheritance from the Sicilian... Read More »
The Manhattan Review reviews New and Selected Poems, 1957-2011 by Robert Sward New & Selected Poems, 1957-present. Red Hen Press, 202 pp. $24.95 (paperback) This humorous, thoughtful, and delightful poet expresses a childlike but... Read More »	CK2S Kwips and Kritiques reviews River by Skyla Dawn Cameron No one would ever guess that RIVER is a debut novel unless you told them! Skyla Dawn Cameron has perfectly captured the angst of the teenage years in a format... Read More »
Asian Review of Books reviews Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China by Shouhua Qi Ever since the rise of the Internet and the fall of the attention span the genre of flash fiction has boomed in China. Known in Chinese as "Minute Story", "Pocket-... Read More »	Lambda Rising Book Report, Bay Area Reporter, The Wishing Well reviews The Price of Passion by Jess Wells “Wells’ language is a rich and varied drug… Unlike so many other highly charged novels, The Price of Passion is a fully integrated story with a compelling conflict... Read More »