JB Stillwater's Book Reviews

 

Unrest in Eden
Florence Weinberg

Review by Janet K. Brennan
This book number four in the PfefferKorn mysteries by Florence B. Weinberg caught my undivided attention from page one, as all of Author Weinberg's books do. Her protagonist, Father Ignaz Pfefferkorn is more...
The Harvest
John Krygelski

Review by Janet K. Brennan
When I turned the first page of this novel by John Krygelski, I was in no way prepared for what I would read on the pages that followed. To say that this book, which is a fine tuned mix of fiction and fact is different and controversial is putting it mildly. The Harvest hits the deck running more...
Out of Balance
Michael Arkin

Review by Janet K. Brennan
Out of Balance hits the deck running from the very first paragraph to the last. What at first appears to be a larger than life story quickly adjusts its vision and the reader soon comes to the important fact that “Out of Balance” is primarily about the sad and tragic lives of the children and spouses who are the innocent victims of sexual and physical abuse in the home. more...
Mice Verses Man
R. Jay Slais

Review by Janet K. Brennan
Slais is a poet with true grit who writes of life in multi-dimensional style. I had the impression from page one that I was about to be taken on a poetic journey and Slais did not disappoint. more...
Water under Water
Charles Fishman

Review by Laurel Johnson
Finding a new book of poetry by Charles Adés Fishman in my mailbox is a blessing because I know from past experience that treasure rests between the covers. more...
Seven Cities of Mud
Florence Weinberg

Review by Janet K. Brennan
To read Florence B. Weinberg's book "Seven Cities of Mud" is to step back in time to a place in history few of us know or understand. more...
The Not so Patient Advocate
Ellen Menard

Review by Janet K. Brennan
Author, Ellen Menard has written a book that belongs in everyone’s library, on the top shelf where it is easy to reach.more...
No Nukes
Dr. Santosh Kumar

Review by Janet K. Brennan
This philosophical and ecclesiastic poem by Dr Santosh Kumar is a life’s quest in the working of a mind that understands the present nature of the world, terrorism, its causes and possible solutions..more...
Crazed By The Sun
Lynn Strongin

Review by Janet K. Brennan
This magnificent anthology, which features some of the best poets I have read in many years, is a work to be studied for its importance and contribution to world literature.more...
Harriet Murphy - A Little Bit of Something
Janet K. Brennan

Review by D. Allen Jenkins
The book cover flap of Janet K. Brennan’s latest release, Harriet Murphy: A Little Bit Of Something, invited me to grab a cup of coffee, sidle up to the table of a nineteenth century log cabin, and accept a freshly baked piece of apple brown sugar pie. The baker of said pie, it seemed, wanted to tell me her story. So I did, and what a vivacious story it is! more...
A Dance in the Woods
Janet K. Brennan

Review by Dr. Santosh Kumar
Janet K. Brennan’s novel A Dance in the Woods describes the Benton’s family psychological adjustment to the sad death of their eldest daughter Beth. The sufferings of innocent Beth and her unfortunate death is not the dying of an ordinary girl, but the vanishing of a beautiful dream as revealed by Brennan in her amazing autobiographical novel more...
Harvest of the New Millenium
Volume 1 Number 1 - January, 2008

Editor: Santosh Kumar

Review by Janet K. Brennan
Cyberwit Publications has gone and done it again in the production of another masterpiece with its newest release, Harvests of New Millennium. This magnificent book is a composition of fine art and poetry from artists around the literary world. more...
The New American
by Mary Barnet Schiff

Review by Janet K. Brennan
Open the pages of this book and you will enter into a world you thought you knew; however you will quickly find yourself transported into something quite different more...
Taste The Textures
by Ian Bravestone

Review by Janet K. Brennan
After having read this delicious cocktail of sensuality, inner reserve, fun, eroticism and fantasy, I was left with the feeling that I must now go back and read it again. more...
Adrift in the Holy
by Lou Davies-James

Review by Janet K. Brennan
What is Love? Even if you thought that you knew the answer to this question, in Lou Davies-James exquisite book, "Adrift In The Holy, a Journey Through The Heart," you may come upon some surprises as well as brilliant insight to just what the answer to that question truly is. more...
Hazy Expressions
by Katrina Guarascio

Review by JB Stillwater
Anyone fortunate enough to come across this up and coming poet, Katrina Guarascio, is in for a treat. Her style and compassionate understanding mixed with true grit will set a smile upon your face as your turn each page and ingest her tender words more...
Helicon
by Santosh Kumar

Review by JB Stillwater
Dr. Santosh Kumar leaves no doubt in the minds of his readers that he is praying for a better world... a world without the evils of war; is it possible? more...
The Making of Tibias Ivory
by D. Allen Jenkins

Review by JB Stillwater
This book by D. Allen Jenkins addresses the delicate issues of interracial love, bigotry, deceit, tragedy, and, ultimately, grace. It is a "MUST READ" for all ages. more...
I Found My Father in a Womens' Prison
by Tracey Brown, PhD

Review by JB Stillwater
Come spend some time in Richland Louisiana Parish Detention Center, a prison in the Deep South, with Tracey Brown, as she takes you into the lonely and often frightening world of the female inmate. more...
Different Worlds - A Virtual Journey
by Santosh Kumar

Review by JB Stillwater
This beautiful piece of art and literature is a compilation of short stories, poetry, and artwork from authors and artists around the world. more...