by Admin | Mar 20, 2016 | creativity, family, fiction, Literature
Reviewed by: Janet Levine “In the novel the protagonists are filmmakers, women who know how to create illusions through a camera lens and peddle them as reality. Spiotti, perhaps, questions if fiction works the same way.” The author of Innocents and Others, Dana...
by Admin | Feb 25, 2016 | family, garden, gardening, Memoir, non-fiction, Uncategorized
Reviewed by: Janet Levine “More Was Lost is a memoir of two parts; the first reads like a fairy tale and the second like a nightmare.” More Was Lost is the reissue of a 1946 memoir by Eleanor Perényi, a well known New York figure in literary circles. She was an editor...
by Admin | Feb 9, 2016 | Biography, Children, family, gardening, Memoir, non-fiction
Reviewed by: Janet Levine “a well-written, family memoir that tackles broad questions of identity . . .” Their Promised Land is somewhat quirky: compelling and heartwarming in parts but also long-winded and unremarkable in others. Ian Buruma, the author, is well known...
by Admin | Dec 31, 2015 | creativity, garden, human rights, meditation, Memoir, reconciliation, Uncategorized
Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962–1966 Reviewed by: Janet Levine “A satisfying read on many levels . . .” Fragrant Palm Leaves is the work of a person in his mid-thirties coming to terms with realistic acceptance of the meanings that arise from his monk’s training...
by Admin | Dec 31, 2015 | creativity, fiction, gay and lesbian, historical fiction, human rights, Literature, Uncategorized
The Price of Salt Reviewed by: Janet Levine “The Price of Salt is a moving, beautifully conceived and written book. It is a mesmerizing read.” The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (author of The Talented Mr. Ripley and other well-known novels) first published under...
