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...
by Admin | Dec 31, 2014 | creativity, meditation, Memoir
This week of Christmas/New Year I want to honor a friend who is undergoing an unfortunate decline in health and who is often in my mind. I visited her one Christmas week several years ago and the shared experience of celebrating Christmas and New Year in New Mexico...
by Admin | Oct 22, 2014 | creativity, fiction, gay and lesbian, historical fiction, human rights, thriller
First Published in the New York Journal of Books October 21, 2014: The Paying Guests by Sarah Water The Paying Guests by English author Sarah Waters is a brilliant novel. This book deserves the accolades and favorable reviews currently garlanding its release. Sarah...
by Admin | Jul 16, 2014 | creativity, fiction, historical fiction, thriller
First published in the New York Journal of Books, July 16 2014 The Orpheus Descent by Tom Harper Review by Janet Levine “In The Orpheus Descent, Harper uses his novelist’s skills to plausibly recreate time and place—his settings in ancient Italy and Greece...
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:...
