by Admin | Jul 29, 2015 | Biography, creativity, Literature
The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio Reviewed by: Janet Levine “Decisive two thumbs up for a compelling and lucid narrative of the ‘finest book in the world.’” The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays...
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 | 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 | Mar 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
The African Equation Author(s): Yasmina Khadra Release Date: March 17, 2015 Publisher/Imprint: Gallic Books Reviewed by: Janet Levine “Khadra’s didacticism ruins this book and leaves the novel bereft of his previously demonstrated literary power.” The African Equation...