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The Night Watchman: A Chevron Ross Book Review
Native American culture is only a ghost of what it was before the European invasion swept across the continent. So fittingly, ghosts li...
Best Recollections … A Separate Peace
Have you ever enjoyed a book so much that you wish you could erase your memory and read it again for the first time?
I have quite a ...
A Gentleman in Moscow: A Chevron Ross Book Review
Amor Towles recently announced that his new novel, The Lincoln Highway, will be available on October 5, 2021. For those who haven’t hea...
Allen Drury’s Ruthless Journalist
While reading Allen Drury’s novel Anna Hastings, I couldn’t help thinking of Helen Thomas, the longtime United Press International corr...
State of Wonder: A Chevron Ross Book Review
It’s hard to read this book without thinking of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. A woman’s journey into the Amazon forest to find an ...
Great Opening Lines
One of the keys to successful writing is grabbing the reader’s attention right off the bat. JenJen Reviews pays homage to this truism w...
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane: A Chevron Ross Book Review
There must be thousands of children’s stories I’ve never read in the many years since I outgrew that genre. The Miraculous Journey of E...
Things You Wouldn’t Know If You Didn’t Read
Most people read novels for entertainment. It’s remarkable, though, how much you can learn from them.
For example, I couldn’t speak ...
Jane Friedman, the Author’s Best Friend
When I began work on Weapons of Remorse in September 2016, I knew very little about publishing. At that time, my only goal was to get t...
The Paris Library: A Chevron Ross Book Review
What could feel more homey to a book lover than a book about a library – especially one set in occupied Paris during World War II? Jane...