by Admin | Dec 25, 2016 | apartheid, Biography, Children, creativity, family, human rights, non-fiction, reconciliation, South Africa
Reviewed by: Janet Levine “This book is a breath of fresh air.” Born A Crime is a rollicking ride of a book, an enjoyable feast of storytelling. Deservedly it is already a number one bestselling book. Combining comedy and tragedy, the book covers the dying days of...
by Admin | Jun 29, 2016 | Children, creativity, family, fiction, historical fiction, saga, young adults
Barkskins: A Novel by Annie Proulx Reviewed by: Janet Levine “Over 300 years the forests are raped, eco-systems destroyed, wealth generated, and the insatiable international desire and greed for wood exploited.” Annie Proulx, the author of Barkskins is an accomplished...
by Admin | Apr 9, 2016 | Biography, creativity, family, Memoir, non-fiction, Parenting, reconciliation, Uncategorized
The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for his Mother Reviewed by: Janet Levine “Rublack creates an astute and informative study of witchcraft and witch trials.” The Astronomer and The Witch by Ulinka Rublack at first glance may appear to be a...
by Admin | Mar 29, 2016 | family, fiction, historical fiction, human rights, Memoir, Uncategorized
Reviewer: Janet Levine “The novel is a quick, compulsive read but leaves much untold; however, this is fiction and not comprehensive biography.” Terrible Virtue by Ellen Feldman is fictional autobiography (told almost exclusively in an imagined first-person narrative...
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...
