Jana L. Perskie

Jana L. Perskie has been an avid reader, with an eclectic taste in literature, since childhood and is a Top 100 Reviewer for Amazon.com. She lived and worked in Mexico and Latin America for 15 years, and in Iran for 3. She speaks Spanish fluently and loves Latin American/Spanish literature, music, dance and food. Collecting first edition, signed, 20th century American fiction is a passion she is trying to wean herself away from - a very expensive hobby. Other interests include sailing, painting (has a MFA), listening to jazz and classical music...and READING! She presently works as a Human Resource Consultant and resides in Manhattan. Jana has reviewed the following for MostlyFiction.com:

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2009

• Flipping Out by Marshall Karp (4-17-09)
• The Sound of Building Coffins by Louis Maistros (4-9-09)
• Etta by Gerald Kolpan (4-6-09)
• The Dead Man's Brother by Roger Zelazny (3-29-09)
• Figures in Silk by Vanora Bennett (3-23-09)
• The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff (3-20-09)
• The Diplomat's Wife by Pam Jenoff (3-20-09)
• Almost Home by Pam Jenoff (3-20-09)
• Fault Line by Barry Eisler (3-10-09)
• The Little Giant of Aberdeen by Tiffany Baker (3-9-09)
• A Grave in Gaza by Matt Benyon Rees (3-1-09)
• Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb (2-28-09)
• Mad Ship by Robin Hobb (2-28-09)
• Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb (2-28-09)
• A Grave in Gaza by Matt Benyon Rees (12-25-08)
• Portrait of Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett (2-23-09)
• Defiance by Nechama Tec (2-15-09)

2007

• A Black Englishman by Carolyn Slaughter (01-27-07)
• The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale (01-14-07)

2006

• Hopscotch by Julio Cortazár (11-16-06)
• Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey (9-30-06)
• Havana Red by Leonardo Padura (9-30-06)
• Raymond + Hannah by Stephen Marche (8-26-06)
• The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue (8-26-06)
• Proof Positive by Phillip Margolin (8-26-06)
• Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (8-26-06)
• Summer Snow by Rebecca Pawel (6-4-06)
• Strange Affair by Peter Robinson (6-4-06)
• Backward Facing Man by Don Silver (6-4-06)
• My Life So Far by Jane Fonda (6-4-06)
• Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry (6-4-06)
• The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Ruth Francisco (5-1-06)
• The Rabbit Factory by Marshall Karp (5-1-06)
• The Turquoise Ring by Grace Tiffany (5-1-06)
• Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger (5-1-06)
• The Last Cato by Matilde Asensi (5-1-06)
• The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra (5-1-06)
• Vodka by Boris Starling (5-1-06)
• The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury (5-1-06)
• The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue (3-20-06)
• The Wall by Jeff Long (3-20-06)
• The House of Scorta by Laurent Gaude (3-20-06)
• The Sultan's Seal by Jenny White (3-20-06)
• Leonardo's Swans by Karen Essex (3-20-06)
• Zero to the Bone by Robert Eversz (3-20-06)
• Eve Green by Susan Fletcher (1-29-06)
• Pursuit by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza (1-29-06)
• Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber (1-29-06)
• Bad Debts by Peter Temple (1-29-06)
• Tilt A Whirl by Chris Grabenstein (1-29-06)
• Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey (1-29-06)
• Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey (1-29-06)
• Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey (1-29-06)

2005

• Matches by Alan Kaufman (12-12-05)
• A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon (12-12-05)
• The Stranger House by Reginald Hill (12-12-05)
• Out by Natsuo Kirino (12-12-05)
• The Jungle Law by Victoria Vinton (12-12-05)
• A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve (12-12-05)
• The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin (12-12-05)
• Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (12-12-05)
• Blue Belle by Andrew Vachss (12-12-05)
• Dermaphoria by Craig Clevenger (10-30-05)
• The Point of Fracture by Frank Hollon (10-30-05)
• Deadly Slipper by Michelle Wan (10-30-05)
• Origin of Haloes by Kristen Den Hartog (10-30-05)
• Envy by Kathryn Harrison (10-30-05)
• Exposure by Kathryn Harrison (10-30-05)
• The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison (10-30-05)
• The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison (10-30-05)
• Spell of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning (10-30-05)
• The Great Inland Sea by David Francis (9-5-05)
• The Night Garden by Pamela Holm (9-5-05)
• What Happened to Henry by Sharon Pywell (9-5-05)
• Pretty Birds by Scott Simon (9-5-05)
• Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières(9-5-05)
• The Politics of Truth by Joseph Wilson (9-5-05)
• The Company of Strangers by Robert Wilson (9-5-05)
  
• A Test of Wills by Charles Todd (8-29-05)
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (7-15-05)
• The Watcher in the Pine by Rebecca Pawel (7-15-05)
• Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca Pawel (7-15-05)
• Law of Return by Rebecca Pawel (7-15-05)
• Killer Swell by Jeff Shelby (7-15-05)
• Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle (7-15-05)
• The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard (7-15-05)
• Blue Moon by Laurell K. Hamilton (7-15-05)
• Club Dead by Charlaine Harris (7-15-05)
• Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite (7-15-05)
• Zorro by Isabel Allende (06-12-05)
• In the Dark of the Moon by Suzanne Hudson (06-12-05)
• In a Temple of Trees by Suzanne Hudson (06-12-05)
• Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (06-12-05)
• The History of Love by Nicole Kraus (06-12-05)
• Towelhead by Alicia Erian (06-12-05)
• Fleshmarket Alley by Ian Rankin (06-12-05)
• The Bewildered by Peter Rock (05-07-05)
• The Illuminator by Brenda Rickman Vantrease (05-07-05)
• Most Wanted by Michele Martinez (05-07-05)
• By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman (05-07-05)
• Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult (05-07-05)
• Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell (05-07-05)
• From Doon with Death by Ruth Rendell (05-07-05)
• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (05-07-05)
• Old Boys by Charles McCarry (4-3-05)
• After Moses by Karen Mockler (4-3-05)
• How to Be Lost by Amanda Eyre Ward (3-27-05)
• Drama City by George Pelecanos (3-27-05)
• Bloodlines by Jan Burke (3-27-05)
• Blue Horse Dreaming by Melanie Wallace (3-27-05)
• French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano (3-27-05)
• Night Fall by Nelson Demille (3-27-05)
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (2-19-05)
• Dangerous Women edited by Otto Penzler (2-17-05)
• Kiss Me, Judas by Will Christopher Baer (2-17-05)
• The Seas by Samantha Hunt (2-17-05)
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (2-17-05)
• The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (1-20-05)
• Empire of the Wolves by Jean-Christophe Grangé (1-16-05)
• Wives and Sisters by Natalie R. Collins (1-16-05)
• Downtown by Pete Hamill (1-16-05)

2004

• The Million Dollar Divorce by RM Johnson (12-19-04)
• Jonathan Strange& Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (12-19-04)
• Sandstorm by James Rollins (12-19-04)
• Beneath the Marble Sky by John Shors (12-19-04)
• Hour Game by David Baldacci (12-19-04)
• Split Second by David Baldacci (12-19-04)
• The Distance Between Us by Masha Hamilton (11-7-04)
• Seven Blessings by Ruchama King (11-7-04)
• The Qince Seed Potion by Morteza Baharloo (11-7-04)
• For the Dogs by Kevin Wignall (11-7-04)
• The Missing Peace by Dennis Ross (11-7-04)
• How Israel Lost by Richard Ben Cramer (11-7-04)
• Light on Snow by Anita Shreve (10-12-04)
• The Cajuns by Gus Weill (10-12-04)
• A Girl Like Che Guevara by Teresa de La Caridad Doval (10-12-04)
• Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich (10-12-04)
• In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegleman (10-09-04)
• What We've Lost by Graydon Carter (10-09-04)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (9-16-04)
• Bushworld by Maureen Dowd (9-16-04)
• Against All Enemies by Richard Clarke (9-16-04)
• Fat Man Fed Up by Jack Germond (9-16-04)
• Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward (9-16-04)
• Losing America by Robert C. Byrd (9-16-04)
• The 9/11 Commission Report (9-16-04)
• White Russian by Tom Bradby (9-16-04)
• The Immortal Highlander by Karen Marie Moning (9-16-04)

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