1. Book Reviews
  2. Books Published May 15, 2002

May 15, 2002

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published May 15, 2002. You can also view all of the books we've reviewed that were published anytime in May 2002.

Return to Most Recent

Book Review

She Died For Her Sins

by Paula Scardamalia

The opening pages of this novel are reminiscent of both Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe series and Lawrence Sanders’s McNally series. Tod, the narrator and son of Bomber Hanson, seems to combine the errand-boy status of Wolfe’s Archie... Read More

Book Review

Perfect Timing

by Carol Lynn Stewart

The passage of time is often seen as fixed and inevitable. What if this were not the case? When Michael Jordan executes a “slam dunk,” shoving the basketball into the hoop, everything about his movement seems to slow down. He seems... Read More

Book Review

Feeding the Media Beast

by Peter Terry

Witty and ironic, entertaining and simple to read, this book is a smart, useful text on how to effectively generate publicity and avoid the common pitfalls of working with the modern information culture. The author, who has worked as a... Read More

Book Review

The Inside Story on Teen Girls

“If you had the chance to have a private and confidential conversation with an expert with a great deal of knowledge and understanding about the concerns of adolescent girls today, what would you ask them?” When a cross section of... Read More

Book Review

Done In By Innocent Things

“Pollen, dust, animals, all these make me sneeze. I am done in by innocent things,” says a father who will never support his family, in the cleverly constructed short story “An Afternoon at the Movies.” His son imagines a film of... Read More

Book Review

Exposed

by Karen Wyckoff

Locking eyes with her viewer, a nude woman nests heavily in the tousled sheets of her four-post bed. Over the casual slump of her shoulder, and with one leg thrown ahead of her swollen belly, her glance casts the ruddy weariness of her... Read More

Book Review

The Law Review

by Alan J. Couture

Mystery, intrigue, and murder all occur at the University of Chicago Law School, where first-year student Grayson Bullock finds himself enveloped by the treacherous and secretive workings of the elite legal journal, the Law Review. Only... Read More

Book Review

The Grundilini

“Slaves! Your majesty! Slaves!” he pleaded. “With your permission, I welcome the privilege to attack the village and supply slaves for your mines.” When a banished knight steals the treasure of a humble village to gain favor in... Read More

Load More