Nonfiction

“. . . the editor either fell asleep during the first chapter or ran out of red ink.”

“. . . engaging and informative book . . . compellingly creates the world the two antagonists inhabited, replete with a cast of interesting and colorful supporting characters.”

“In Hamilton’s telling doping did not make for an uneven playing field but rather was what any competitive racer must do to compete at the highest level.”

“. . . much more than just a narrative or how-to. It’s an imaginative retelling of what is in your closet.”

“. . . the reader comes away with no better understanding of Mr. Douglas than from reading about the actor in a fawning celebrity magazine.”

“These stories vividly illuminate how New York is perhaps the most rewarding of places to succeed and the most unforgiving of places to suffer a reversal.”

“No one owns the Holocaust. Professor McKale expresses the notion that those who deny the Holocaust thereby deny that Israel has the right to exist.”

To start with a softball of a metaphor (apt because perhaps the high point of her career to date is the 1992 film A League of Their Own), when it comes to getting her points across in her

“. . . a charming book . . . but a bit of a tease.”

“Right now, bullied children need the help of their communities.”

“. . . engaging and fun. . . . present[ing] the spectrum of views on marriage in ways most of us can relate to . . .”