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Janet Levine: NYJB Book Review: Searching for Wallenberg

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...

Janet Levine Blog: Yuletide/Solstice 2014

by Admin | Dec 21, 2014 | creativity, fiction, historical fiction, human rights, reconciliation

Solstice Greetings December 21, 2014 When thinking what to blog about at this juncture of the year, the word “books” keeps coming to mind. Books, in many ways remain an anchor in my life. So, I am going to share my great pleasure in books by selecting several...

Janet Levine Blog: Transitions 55+

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...

Janet Levine Blog: Latest Review: Voluptua: A novel

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...

Janet Levine Blog: Book Review, The Last First Day (a novel)

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...