About the reviewers

Reviewer: Lisa Yanaky (L.D.Y) – I’m the site owner, editor, and reviewer. I started working on the site, originally at Diaryland.com, in March, 2003, before transfering it here in February 2004. My credentials? A few years in university for English, a year working in a bookstore, and thousands of books read in my lifetime (still relatively short at 25 years). And I’m just getting started. In case you’re curious (what book lover isn’t?), my all-time favourite book is Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie. My favourite “classic” book is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway wins hands down for short story, and the poetry of Leonard Cohen makes me swoon. I’ll read almost anything, though. All genres of books frolic freely on my (many) bookcases. I do have a great love for Booker Prize winners/nominees, though. If you’d like, you can sneak a peek at the books I own, as well as my to-be-read list.

My favorite authors include:

• Salman Rushdie
• Kate Atkinson
• Bill Bryson
• Marian Keyes
• Ian McEwan
• Charlotte Bronte
• Yann Martel
• Robertson Davies
• Jeffery Deaver
• Margaret Atwood
• Leonard Cohen
• J.K. Rowling
• Ernest Hemingway
• A.S. Byatt
• Nino Ricci
• Rohinton Mistry
• Jasper Fforde
• Janet Evanovich
• Barbara Gowdy

All reviews that indicate “Reviewed by L.D.Y” are copyright Lisa Yanaky 2003-2005.

You can reach me on the form below, or email me at lyanaky@yahoo.ca.

Guest Reviewer: Clara Sherley-Appel (C.S.A) I’m a rising senior at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia. I found Book Brothel when it was still on diaryland and, as an avid reader, became more than interested. A year and change later and Lisa’s got me writing for her. Book lovers unite. To give you an idea of my credentials, I review books, movies and music for my college’s newspaper and I read at a pace of about 10-15 books/month. I’m primarily interested in fiction, and my favorite books are Contact by Carl Sagan, Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, and The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. As a student of history and a lover of science, I also read a fair amount of non-fiction. You’ll find everything from the history of contraception to Richard Feynmann’s lectures in my collection, and it is always increasing.

All reviews that indicate “Reviewed by C.S.A.” are copyright Clara Sherley-Appel 2004.