Tag: book review

Book Review: Proxima’s Gift, by Marc Peter Keane

Three hundred years after an apocalyptic event, a future society finds a new connection to nature.

Book Review: River of Dolls and Other Stories, by Suzanne Kamata

A vivid collection of stories about mothers and daughters, girls and women, wives and ex-wives.

Book Review: Autumn Embers: A Batavia-on-Hudson Mystery in Kyoto, by Tina deBellegarde

The third mystery of a series — this one in Kyoto!

Book Review: Tropes Twined With Truth: A Sandy Fantasy That Sticks

A review of Cinnamon Beach, a book by Suzanne Kamata

Book Review: A Tiny Nature: Recollections of Poems and Trees, by Robert Weis

Review of a collection of free verse poetry and photographs mainly of bonsai trees.

Book Review: Hidden Japan, by Alex Kerr

Kerr on places he'd rather you not visit. Instead he offers wonderful descriptions.

Book Review: The Book of Form and Emptiness, by Ruth Ozeki

A review of Ruth Ozeki's fourth novel which takes place largely in a library and where one can feel the author's presence.

Book Review: The Short Story Collective: 13 Tales from Japan, by Andrew Innes

A review of stories that the reviewer calls both challenging and entertaining.

Book Review: Tokyo: A Biography

Mansfield begins to make Tokyo accessible by illuminating its humble beginnings along with the innumerable setbacks throughout its growth.