STARTLINGLY POETIC IMAGES of small-town life redeem this book’s soap-opera plot about a young girl in crisis. SOLID B

THE BEGINNERS
Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
2011

STARTLINGLY POETIC IMAGES of small-town life redeem this book’s soap-opera plot about a young girl in crisis.

WORLD WAR II THRILLER with an all-star cast of science fiction writers and scientists; fun historical caper!

CHARMING HISTORICAL MYSTERY with a just pre-Regency English setting and an appealing heroine/sleuth is good fun.

BEAUTIFULLY NUANCED, POETIC essays on art, life, culture, and a black woman’s experience from Ntozake Shange.

WACKY ENGLISH COZY mystery, third in a series, features a D-list crime writer and his agent as sleuths.

POINTED SATIRE OF the business world’s sociopathy, misogyny is like spending 2+ hours with a misogynist sociopath. SOS

LIGHTNING RODS
New Directions Publishing Corporation
2011

POINTED SATIRE OF the business world’s sociopathy, misogyny is like spending 2+ hours with a misogynist sociopath.  SOS

AN ODDLY APPEALING HITMAN in the grip of a midlife crisis is the protagonist of this unusual, surprising novel.

THE LOST BOYS (and girls) of the 1980s punk and straight-edge scenes take center stage in this elegaic novel.