Selected Reviews

Fiction

 Bedtime Story
By Robert Wiersema
Reviewed for the Vancouver Sun, November 6, 2010

http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=9d451413-18b0-4e46-9060-02994eb19e11

Antarctic Navigation
By Elizabeth Arthur
Reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle, January 15, 1995

Beach Music,
By Pat Conroy
Reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle, June 25, 1995

Charming Billy
By Alice McDermott
Reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle, January 4, 1998

Kowloon Tong
By Paul Theroux.
Reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle, May 18, 1997

Loving Edith,
By Mary Tannen.
Reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle, June 18, 1995

Naming the Spirits,
By Lawrence Thornton
Reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle, October 8, 1995

Saving Grace,
By Lee Smith
Reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle, May 21, 1995

Sights Unseen
By Kaye Gibbons
Reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle, September 3, 1995

Splitting,
by Fay Weldon
Reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle,  June 2, 1995

The Mistress of Spices,
By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle, February 23, 1997

The Castle,
By Franz Kafka–a new  translation by Mark Harman Schocken.
Reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle, April 5, 1998

Biography

Chekhov: The Hidden Ground
by Philip Callow and Anton Chekhov: A Life
By Donald Rayfield
Reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle, May 31, 1998.

Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
By Julia Markus
Reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle, March 19, 1995

Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962
By Doris Lessing
Reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle, September 14, 1997

Non-Fiction

Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer’s Story,  by Charles P. Pierce

Elegy for Iris, by John Bayley

Reviewed for Consumer Health Interactive

http://drugtools.caremark.com/topic/bralzmemoir

Flux, by Peggy Orenstein.

Reviewed for Consumer Health Interactive.

http://drugtools.caremark.com/topic/brflux