by Admin | Jul 20, 2015 | creativity, Memoir, Parenting
Primates of Park Avenue Reviewed by: Janet Levine “Primates is a single-season sensation that does little more than titillate.” Primates of Park Avenue, a runaway New York Times best seller, has found a huge readership and been touted as the “beach read” of this...
by Admin | Jul 18, 2015 | Children, creativity, fiction, human rights, thriller
Confession of The Lioness Reviewed by: Janet Levine Mia Couto is a prize-winning writer living in Maputo, Mozambique, where he practices as a biologist. He writes in Portuguese and is well known in Portuguese speaking literary circles. Confession of a Lioness, his...
by Admin | Jun 9, 2015 | creativity, fiction, meditation, mind structure, reconciliation
The Wolf Border: A Novel Reviewed by: Janet Levine This is a superb novel: luminous and illuminating. You’ll gallop through every page and then read it again. British author Sarah Hall is a writer’s writer . . . as well as a reader’s best friend. She gets it all...
by Admin | Mar 31, 2015 | college, creativity, fiction, historical fiction, Memoir, mystery
Searching for Wallenberg Author(s): Alan Lelchuck Publisher/Imprint: Mandel Vilar Press Reviewed by: Janet Levine In Searching for Wallenberg author Alan Lelchuk chooses to work in the well-worn structure of a novel within a novel. He succeeds in breathing more life...
by Admin | Dec 31, 2014 | creativity, meditation, Memoir
This week of Christmas/New Year I want to honor a friend who is undergoing an unfortunate decline in health and who is often in my mind. I visited her one Christmas week several years ago and the shared experience of celebrating Christmas and New Year in New Mexico...
by Admin | Dec 21, 2014 | creativity, fiction, historical fiction, human rights, reconciliation
Solstice Greetings December 21, 2014 When thinking what to blog about at this juncture of the year, the word “books” keeps coming to mind. Books, in many ways remain an anchor in my life. So, I am going to share my great pleasure in books by selecting several...
