by Admin | Oct 21, 2016 | Children, college, high school, Memoir, non-fiction, reconciliation, young adults
After 9/11: One Girl’s Journey through Darkness to a New Beginning: A Memoir by Helaine Hovitz Author(s): Helaina Hovitz Release Date: September 5, 2016 Publisher/Imprint: Carrel Books Pages: 480 Reviewed by: Janet Levine “Hovitz had the grit, determination and...
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 | May 9, 2016 | Children, cosmology, creativity, fiction, Literature, mind structure, Parenting, young adults
Relativity Antonia Hayes Reviewed by: Janet Levine “Relativity is a wonderful read . . . well written, sometimes lyrically so, well plotted and not afraid to enter some of the grittier territory of complex human relationships.” Relativity by Antonia Hayes is 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...