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Jana McBurney-Lin's Reviews

Reviews of Jana’s Work

Aug.30.2011
Published by Friends of the Museum, Singapore
  For those of you who love Asian-themed literature, you must read, “My Half of the Sky” by Jana McBurney-Lin. published in the US in 2006 (Komenar Publishing).  This...

Reviews by Jana

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30.Aug.2011
by catherine-ryan-hyde
The story seems simple, at first--boy meets girl on subway, they fall in love and will march off into the sunset...or the crowded...
Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt
30.Aug.2011
by caroline-leavitt
It's been months (a long time for me) since I found a book that grabbed me, one that I looked forward to reading for more than...
On a Night Like This
30.Aug.2011
by ellen-sussman
The main character of Sussman's book discovers she has cancer and is going to die very soon. She is a mother of a teenager, and...
Rooftops of Tehran
24.Nov.2009
by seraji-mahbod
My daughter reads very little outside her college curriculum. So I'm choosy about what I pass onto her. This past summer, I...
The Fortune Catcher
27.Dec.2008
by susanne-pari
What happens when life as you've come to know becomes illegal, immoral, a reason for your death? This is the dilemma facing the...
The Blood of Flowers (paperback)
12.Dec.2008
by anita-amirrezvani
This is a beautiful story which revolves around a spirited young girl on the brink of womanhood in 18th century Iran. Her father...