Book Reviews
November 6, 2009
- I was quite taken aback by myself today. Ever since my books first came out, I've been so busy working on other projects that I haven't really had much time to sit back and take in what's been going on around me. The books have had great reviews, and I've been very happy about that, in the few seconds before falling asleep when I had a quiet moment to think about something other than my next ...
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November 4, 2009
- I have been diligently scouring the net for additional places to promote my debut novel, The Fence My Father Built (Abingdon Press, 10-09) and I ran across New Book Review, a blog where authors can feauture their favorite book reviews. I chose my review from Booklist. Check it out! http://www.books-for-sale.net/7115/booklist-reviewer-shares-womens-literature-review-with-the-new-book-review/
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November 4, 2009
- In the comments link and comments for each chapter on Textnovel.com you'll find some wonderful reviews of Lancelot's Lady, my debut romantic suspense. Some of my most favorite reviews are: "Desperate to leave her sordid past behind her Rhianna has found a new job and a new life. At long last she feels like she belongs.When her employer and companion T.J. Lance, gives her a ticket for a six ...
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October 27, 2009
- Even in the life of a writer and book reviewer, one finds one periodically likes what one reads or likes what one writes. This happened two–two!–times this week. The first excerpt is a review of something I enjoyed reading, Michelle Huneven’s absolutely laying-waste-to-the-land-and/or-competition Blame, which I reviewed for NPR. When a character accidentally kills a mother and daughter ...
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October 12, 2009
- No, "Help Me Out Here" is not the title of some book you haven't heard of. It's a genuine plea. In the past week I've read five novels and not a single one of them is worthy of being "Book of the Week" here. So that's why I need your help. Has my radar for picking books that will turn off to be good ones gone on the fritz??? Pleasepleaseplease help me, tell me:WHAT BOOK HAVE ...
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October 8, 2009
- I believe it was Doctor Johnson who, when told that nothing was real and we all lived in an illusion, kicked a chair across the room to prove reality. It works for me. Not that all book criticism is mean and full of self-puffery.However, it seems to me the standards are becoming, to be kind, elastic.Here is one of his observations, taken from the Idler. "Criticism is a study by which men ...
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September 25, 2009
- As promised, here is the rest of my opinion of the wildly popular (and somewhat notorious) Twilight series. You can read Part 1 here.I'm doing this review a little different than the first one. I'll still point out good and bad, but I'm leaving out the ugly. Partly because there's less of it as you go along, and partly because I read them during the move and wasn't paying attention to that ...
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September 22, 2009
- Despite my love of all things mysterious, many of my favorite books are young adult fantasy and I'm always on the lookout for good ones.Here are some I've found: Fairest Levine, Gail Carson This may be blasphemy, but I wasn't super taken with Ella Enchanted. It wasn't a bad book, it just didn't make me go "Wow". Fairest was much more my speed. I love retold ...
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September 16, 2009
- While most of the world is talking about the new Dan Brown bestseller, Second Wind Publishing, LLC has quietly released another thriller -- Staccato by Deborah J Ledford. You won’t find all the elements that have become Brown’s hallmarks: cartoonish characters, amateurish prose, tin-ear for dialogue, internal inconsistencies. What you will find is a well-written, well-constructed story that ...
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September 15, 2009
- I recently re-discovered the Amelia Peabody books by Elizabeth Peters. I'd read the first one a long time ago, but didn't remember any of the others. (if I read them at all...) I started at the beginning again and I DEVOURED THEM. Mmm... delicious books....Also--for you writers out there--Elizabeth Peters is a fabulous example of what research can do for a book, especially for ...
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