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 | Apr 19, 2014 | Children, college, creativity, high school, Parenting, young adults
This is me, this past week, teaching a Philosophy class, in the same classroom, at the same school, as I have done for these past 29 years. I look happy, I am happy, I love teaching. If all there is to teaching is teaching, then, on most days I feel I can...
by Admin | Feb 17, 2014 | college, creativity, fiction, meditation
Voluptua: A Novel Author(s): Jason Martin Release Date: June 1, 2013 Publisher/Imprint: Turn the Page Publishing Pages: 247 Buy on Amazon Reviewed by: Janet Levine “The writing is weak. Somewhere amid the tangle of words and images is the potential for a novel, but...
by Admin | Oct 16, 2013 | Children, college, high school, Memoir, Parenting, reconciliation, teaching tales, young adults
From the New York Journal of Books web site The Last First Day: A Novel by Carrie Brown. Reviewed by Janet Levine | Released: September 17, 2013 Publisher: Pantheon (304 pages) For the past 30 years I have taught at a fairly large New England prep school in the Boston...
by Admin | Jun 25, 2013 | Children, college, creativity, high school, teaching tales
Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine by Simon Critchley Jamieson Webster Reviewed by Janet Levine | Released: June 25, 2013 Publisher: Pantheon (288 pages) “Stay, Illusion! is not a graceful gavotte but a gallop through the fields of thought . . .” Stay, Illusion! is...