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April 2004

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published April 2004.

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How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love

by Jeff Gundy

Reading this book is like listening to a veteran blues player—B.B. King, say—one so sure of his craft that he seems totally unconcerned about showing it off. Casual as they seem, the author’s poems generate unexpected intensities... Read More

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With Love, Aunt Eleanor

“Getting a pizza delivered is particularly challenging,” writes the author. “When I tell them my name there is always a pause, a moment of disbelief.” Her aunt was Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Roosevelt; her father... Read More

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Keeping My Name

by Camille-Yvette Welsch

For formalists, this author comes as a gift, a poet fully in charge of her forms, subtle and controlled. She embraces the villanelle, Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets, the measured quatrain, rhymed couplets. The book seems a... Read More

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Stress Management Made Simple

by Leonard F. Charla

Prehistoric humans experienced several simultaneous physiological changes when threatened. These constituted a “fight or flight,” or stress, response to predator attacks or similar situations. The author notes: “However, in the... Read More

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The Romance Writer's Handbook

by Carolyn Haines

There are some facts that writers of all genres should know: about half of all mass-market novels sold are romantic fiction; rough figures indicate that only one in 50,000 would-be writers will sell a book, and only one writer in 100 who... Read More

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Lizard Dreaming of Birds

“Drifter” is the kindest term most people would use for Jubal Siner. Criss-crossing the West in an old Buick Wildcat, finding solitary solace in a hidden cabin, he skids through life, fleeing a succession of groovy scenes gone bad.... Read More