Book Reviews
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Amore: An American Father's Roman Holiday by Roger Friedland
My Little French Kitchen: Over 100 Recipes from the Mountains, Market Squares, and Shores of France by Rachel Khoo
Spare Parts: Four Mexican American Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Joshua Davis
Umami: The Fifth Taste by Thomas Keller and Harold McGee
Spirit of the Wolves: The Wolf Chronicles by Dorothy Hearst
Bitter; A Taste of the World's Most Dangerous Flavor, with Recipes by Jennifer McLagan
An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers edited by Don George
The Cuban Table: A Celebration of Food, Flavors, and History by Ana Pelaez and Ellen Silverman
The Barefoot Queen by Ildefonso Falcones
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
Blue Horses: Poems by Mary Oliver
The Peripheral by William Gibson
My Heart Is a Drunken Compass: A Memoir by Domingo Martinez
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
The Hawley Book of the Dead by Chrysler Szarlan
The Woman who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories of Tove Jansson by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella
The Human Age:: The World Shaped by Us by Diane Ackerman
Crazy Horse's Girlfriend by Erika T. Wurth
Fool's Assassin: Book One of the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy by Robin Hobb
Ishmael's Oranges by Claire Hajaj
Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War by Helen Thorpe
How to Change Minds about Our Changing Climate by Seth Darling and Doug Sisterson
The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai
The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older by Kathleen Dowling Singh
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
The French House: An American Family, A Ruined Maison, and the Village that Restored Them All by Don Wallace
Bear Wallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland by Jeremy B. Jones
Margarita Wednesdays by Deborah Rodriguez
California Bones by Greg Van Eekhout
The Tastemakers: Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue by David Sax
Sweet and Vicious: Baking with Attitude 100 Wildly Delicious Recipes that Come with a Kick by Libbie Summers
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Dreaming Bears: A Gwich'in Indian Storyteller, a Southern Doctor, a Wild Corner of Alaska by J. Mike Holloway
A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees by Dave Goulson
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World by Russell Gold
Limber by Angela Pelster
A Farm Dies Once a Year: A Memoir by Arlo Crawford
Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line by Michael Gibney
Unchopping a Tree by W. S. Merwin
Rodale's Basic Organic Gardening: A Beginner's Guide to Starting a Healthy Garden by Deborah L. Martin
Cathedral of the Wild: An African Journey Home by Boyd Varty
The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business by Christopher Leonard
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
I Forgot to Remember: A Memoir of Amnesia by Su Meck with Daniel de Visé
Gene Everlasting: A Contrary Farmer's Thoughts on Living Forever by Gene Logsdon
Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life by Joe Brewster and Michele Stevenson
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark
Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music by Angelique Kidjo
The Wildlife-Friendly Vegetabel Gardener: How to Grow Food in Harmony with Nature by Tammi Hartung
The Kinfolk Table: Recipes for Small Gatherings by Nathan Williams
Bountiful: Recipes Inspired by Our Garden by Todd Porter and Diane Cu
My Mexico: A Culinary Odyssey with Recipes by Diane Kennedy
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter
All the Time in the World: A Book of Hours by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
A Commonplace Book of Pie by Kate Lebo
One Woman Farm: My Life Shared with Sheep, Pigs, Chickens, Goats, and a Fine Fiddle by Jenna Woginrich
Mud Season by Ellen Stimson
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats foreword by Anthony Lane
It's Probably Nothing: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Implants by Micki Meyers
On Migration: Dangerous Journeys and the Living World by Ruth Padel
Latino Americans: The 500 Year Legacy that Shaped a Nation by Ray Suarez
Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson
How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times by Roy Peter Clark
Brotherhood: Dharma , Destiny, and the American Dream by Deepak and Sanjiv Chopra
Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods by Christine Byl
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius by Kristine Barnett
Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers, and Rebels by Alissa Quart
Falling into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis by Christine Montross
You Are Now Less Dumb by David McRaney
The Secrets of Lost Cats: One Woman, 20 Posters, and a New Understanding of Love by Dr. Nancy Davidson
Her Best-Kept Secret: Why Women Drink and How They Can Regain Control by Gabrielle Glaser
The Looking Glass Brother: A Memoir by Peter von Ziegesar
The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between by Stacey D'Erasmo
Zen Under Fire: How I Found Peace in the Midst of War by Marianne Elliot
Eating on the Wild Side by Jo Robinson
Her: A Memoir by Christa Parravani
Derek Fell's Grow This by Derek Fell
An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History by Cynthia Zarin
Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye by Zac Unger
The Cooked Seed: A Memoir by Anchee Min
The Secret Lives of Baked Goods by Jessie Oleson Moore
A North Country Life: Tales of Woodsmen, Waters, and Wildlife by Sydney Lea
The Pulse of Mixed Media by Seth Apter:
Half in Shade: family, Photography and Fate by Judith Kitchen
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley
What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness by Candia McWilliam
The Last Great Ape by Ofir Drori, David McDannald
My Little French Kitchen: Over 100 Recipes from the Mountains, Market Squares, and Shores of France by Rachel Khoo
Spare Parts: Four Mexican American Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Joshua Davis
Umami: The Fifth Taste by Thomas Keller and Harold McGee
Spirit of the Wolves: The Wolf Chronicles by Dorothy Hearst
Bitter; A Taste of the World's Most Dangerous Flavor, with Recipes by Jennifer McLagan
An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers edited by Don George
The Cuban Table: A Celebration of Food, Flavors, and History by Ana Pelaez and Ellen Silverman
The Barefoot Queen by Ildefonso Falcones
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
Blue Horses: Poems by Mary Oliver
The Peripheral by William Gibson
My Heart Is a Drunken Compass: A Memoir by Domingo Martinez
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
The Hawley Book of the Dead by Chrysler Szarlan
The Woman who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories of Tove Jansson by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella
The Human Age:: The World Shaped by Us by Diane Ackerman
Crazy Horse's Girlfriend by Erika T. Wurth
Fool's Assassin: Book One of the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy by Robin Hobb
Ishmael's Oranges by Claire Hajaj
Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War by Helen Thorpe
How to Change Minds about Our Changing Climate by Seth Darling and Doug Sisterson
The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai
The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older by Kathleen Dowling Singh
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
The French House: An American Family, A Ruined Maison, and the Village that Restored Them All by Don Wallace
Bear Wallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland by Jeremy B. Jones
Margarita Wednesdays by Deborah Rodriguez
California Bones by Greg Van Eekhout
The Tastemakers: Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue by David Sax
Sweet and Vicious: Baking with Attitude 100 Wildly Delicious Recipes that Come with a Kick by Libbie Summers
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Dreaming Bears: A Gwich'in Indian Storyteller, a Southern Doctor, a Wild Corner of Alaska by J. Mike Holloway
A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees by Dave Goulson
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World by Russell Gold
Limber by Angela Pelster
A Farm Dies Once a Year: A Memoir by Arlo Crawford
Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line by Michael Gibney
Unchopping a Tree by W. S. Merwin
Rodale's Basic Organic Gardening: A Beginner's Guide to Starting a Healthy Garden by Deborah L. Martin
Cathedral of the Wild: An African Journey Home by Boyd Varty
The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business by Christopher Leonard
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
I Forgot to Remember: A Memoir of Amnesia by Su Meck with Daniel de Visé
Gene Everlasting: A Contrary Farmer's Thoughts on Living Forever by Gene Logsdon
Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life by Joe Brewster and Michele Stevenson
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark
Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music by Angelique Kidjo
The Wildlife-Friendly Vegetabel Gardener: How to Grow Food in Harmony with Nature by Tammi Hartung
The Kinfolk Table: Recipes for Small Gatherings by Nathan Williams
Bountiful: Recipes Inspired by Our Garden by Todd Porter and Diane Cu
My Mexico: A Culinary Odyssey with Recipes by Diane Kennedy
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter
All the Time in the World: A Book of Hours by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
A Commonplace Book of Pie by Kate Lebo
One Woman Farm: My Life Shared with Sheep, Pigs, Chickens, Goats, and a Fine Fiddle by Jenna Woginrich
Mud Season by Ellen Stimson
The Big New Yorker Book of Cats foreword by Anthony Lane
It's Probably Nothing: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Implants by Micki Meyers
On Migration: Dangerous Journeys and the Living World by Ruth Padel
Latino Americans: The 500 Year Legacy that Shaped a Nation by Ray Suarez
Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson
How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times by Roy Peter Clark
Brotherhood: Dharma , Destiny, and the American Dream by Deepak and Sanjiv Chopra
Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods by Christine Byl
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius by Kristine Barnett
Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers, and Rebels by Alissa Quart
Falling into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis by Christine Montross
You Are Now Less Dumb by David McRaney
The Secrets of Lost Cats: One Woman, 20 Posters, and a New Understanding of Love by Dr. Nancy Davidson
Her Best-Kept Secret: Why Women Drink and How They Can Regain Control by Gabrielle Glaser
The Looking Glass Brother: A Memoir by Peter von Ziegesar
The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between by Stacey D'Erasmo
Zen Under Fire: How I Found Peace in the Midst of War by Marianne Elliot
Eating on the Wild Side by Jo Robinson
Her: A Memoir by Christa Parravani
Derek Fell's Grow This by Derek Fell
An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History by Cynthia Zarin
Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye by Zac Unger
The Cooked Seed: A Memoir by Anchee Min
The Secret Lives of Baked Goods by Jessie Oleson Moore
A North Country Life: Tales of Woodsmen, Waters, and Wildlife by Sydney Lea
The Pulse of Mixed Media by Seth Apter:
Half in Shade: family, Photography and Fate by Judith Kitchen
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley
What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness by Candia McWilliam
The Last Great Ape by Ofir Drori, David McDannald
Book Reviews on the New Maine Times
Notes from a Maine Kitchen: Seasonally Inspired Recipes by Kathy Gunst
Healing After Dark: Pioneering Compassionate Medicine at the Boston Evening Clinic by Morris S. Cohen and Richard Shain Cohen
Lost Trail: Nine Days Alone in the Wilderness by Donn Fendler with Lynn Plourde and illustrations by Ben Bishop
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners by Michael Erard
Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching eds. Carol Smallwood, ColleenS. Harris, Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
Zelda, the Queen of Paris by Paul Chutkow
The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans by Mark Lynas
Healing After Dark: Pioneering Compassionate Medicine at the Boston Evening Clinic by Morris S. Cohen and Richard Shain Cohen
Lost Trail: Nine Days Alone in the Wilderness by Donn Fendler with Lynn Plourde and illustrations by Ben Bishop
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners by Michael Erard
Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching eds. Carol Smallwood, ColleenS. Harris, Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
Zelda, the Queen of Paris by Paul Chutkow
The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans by Mark Lynas
The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food by Adam Gopnik
The Vegetable Gardener's Container BIBLE: How to Grow a Bounty of Food in Pots, Tubs, and Other Containers by Edward C. Smith
Unnatural Deaths by Robert G. Fuller, Jr.
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
The Vegetable Gardener's Container BIBLE: How to Grow a Bounty of Food in Pots, Tubs, and Other Containers by Edward C. Smith
Unnatural Deaths by Robert G. Fuller, Jr.
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
Miscellaneous Reviews
The ReviewReview: Gather Round Y'all; A Sweet Ole Lit Mag-Front Porch Fall 2011 http://thereviewreview.net/reviews/gather-round-yall-sweet-ole-lit-mag
The ReviewReview: Innovative Explorations into Music and Poetry http://www.thereviewreview.net/reviews/innovative-explorations-music-and-poetry
The ReviewReview: Segue 10 http://thereviewreview.net/reviews/smooth-transitions-journal-moves-seamlessly-through-
The ReviewReview: HOOT; Literary Magazines in the Form of Postcards--What a Hoot!: http://www.thereviewreview.net/reviews/literary-magazines-form-postcards-what-hoot
The Christian Science Monitor: Jasmine and Fire http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2012/0607/Jasmine-and-Fire
The Christian Science Monitor: Wanted Women http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2012/0130/Wanted-Women
High Country News: Rez Life by David Treuer: http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.8/the-least-and-most-american-of-places-a-review-of-rez-life
The Writer: March 2012 issue: Review of the book, Women on Poetry: Writin, Revising, Publishing and Teaching, edited by Carol Smallwood, Colleen S. Harris and Cynthia Bracket-Vincent
High Times: Reviews of Grow Girl and Pot Farm, April 2012 issue
The ReviewReview: Innovative Explorations into Music and Poetry http://www.thereviewreview.net/reviews/innovative-explorations-music-and-poetry
The ReviewReview: Segue 10 http://thereviewreview.net/reviews/smooth-transitions-journal-moves-seamlessly-through-
The ReviewReview: HOOT; Literary Magazines in the Form of Postcards--What a Hoot!: http://www.thereviewreview.net/reviews/literary-magazines-form-postcards-what-hoot
The Christian Science Monitor: Jasmine and Fire http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2012/0607/Jasmine-and-Fire
The Christian Science Monitor: Wanted Women http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2012/0130/Wanted-Women
High Country News: Rez Life by David Treuer: http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.8/the-least-and-most-american-of-places-a-review-of-rez-life
The Writer: March 2012 issue: Review of the book, Women on Poetry: Writin, Revising, Publishing and Teaching, edited by Carol Smallwood, Colleen S. Harris and Cynthia Bracket-Vincent
High Times: Reviews of Grow Girl and Pot Farm, April 2012 issue
Kirkus Reviews
Unfortunately, Kirkus Reviews are published anonymously. So, I am unable to link to any of my reviews with them. I can say that I have written over three hundred nonfiction reviews for them at this point.
ForeWord Reviews
La Tartine Gourmande by Beatice Peltre http://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/la-tartine-gourmande/
Cotton Bales, Goatmen, and Witches: Legends from the Heart of Texas http://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/cotton-bales-goatmen-and-witchs/
Kitty Cornered by Bob Tarte http://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/kitty-cornered/
The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids byHelen Ollson http://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-down-and-dirty-guide-to-camping-with-kids/
Cotton Bales, Goatmen, and Witches: Legends from the Heart of Texas http://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/cotton-bales-goatmen-and-witchs/
Kitty Cornered by Bob Tarte http://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/kitty-cornered/
The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids byHelen Ollson http://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-down-and-dirty-guide-to-camping-with-kids/
Nonfiction essays and poems
"Working Hands" in the Sandy River Review, Spring 2009 http://sandyriverreview.umf.maine.edu/files/2011/03/SRR-Spring-2009.pdf
"Returning Home" in the Sandy River Review, Spring 2009 http://sandyriverreview.umf.maine.edu/files/2011/03/SRR-Spring-2009.pdf
"All For Paper" in the Sandy River Review, Fall 2010
"Sister Act" in the Sandy River Review, Fall 2010
"Everything that Moved" in the Sandy River Review, Spring 2010
"All These Reasons" in the Sandy River Review, Fall 2009
"You Better Look Again" in the Sandy River Review, Fall 2009
"One Night in Alabama" in the Sandy River Review, Spring 2008
"Returning Home" in the Sandy River Review, Spring 2009 http://sandyriverreview.umf.maine.edu/files/2011/03/SRR-Spring-2009.pdf
"All For Paper" in the Sandy River Review, Fall 2010
"Sister Act" in the Sandy River Review, Fall 2010
"Everything that Moved" in the Sandy River Review, Spring 2010
"All These Reasons" in the Sandy River Review, Fall 2009
"You Better Look Again" in the Sandy River Review, Fall 2009
"One Night in Alabama" in the Sandy River Review, Spring 2008