by Admin | Jul 14, 2014 | creativity, fiction, young adults
This review published July 14 in The New York Journal of Books The Heiresses: A Novel Reviewed by: Janet Levine “The Heiresses” by Sara Shepard is bad—bad, bad, bad, about as bad as any novel I’ve ever not read beyond the first two or three pages. Page 1:...
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...
by Admin | Jun 11, 2013 | Memoir
by Julie Kavanagh Reviewed by Janet Levine | Released: June 11, 2013 Publisher: Knopf (304 pages) From the New York Journal of Books, June 11 2013 “We are in Julie Kavanagh’s debt for shining a light on this woman almost forgotten in the dust of history, allowing her...