Archived Reviews

For your reading and entertainment pleasure, I have decided to subject anyone reading this page to my vast archive of book reviews of general fiction from the past few years published in the Portland Oregonian (I've tried to note which day they ran, when I could find it); and the start of the eventual posting of my crime fiction reviews from Pages Magazine, no longer published, sadly. Note, please, that some of the information in the Pages columns may well be out of date or no longer relevant — but all the same, I hope you'll get a few laughs, and maybe even find out about some great reading along the way.

From the Oregonian (Portland, OR):

• Portland Noir edited by Kevin Sampsell; reviewed May 29, 2009
• The Renegades by Colm Toibin; reviewed March 20, 2009
• Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain; reviewed August 29, 2008
• The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin; reviewed August 22, 2000
• by George by Wesley Strace; reviewed November 4, 2007
• The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow; reviewed June 29, 2008
• Homesick Creek by Diane Hammond; reviewed July 5, 2005
• Judas Horse by April Smith; reviewed February 17, 2008
• Magdalen Martyrs by Ken Bruen
• Mystic River by Dennis Lehane; reviewed February 11, 2001
• Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow; reviewed November 20, 2005
• Origins by Diane Abu-Jaber; reviewed July 1, 2007
• The Judgement by D.W. Buffa; reviewed May 22, 2001
• The Global Soul - Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home by Pico Iyer; reviewed March 19, 2000

Pages Magazine columns:

• January - February, 2002
• March - April, 2003: Interview and profile of Ian Rankin
• March - April, 2002
• May - June, 2002