Magdalena Ball's Reviews
Reviews of Magdalena’s Work
Nov.13.2010
Published by Amazon.com
Award winning and happily espoused poets, Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball, have teamed up once again, to help celebrate their love of the holidays with their new book of...
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Nov.26.2009
Published by M/C Reviews
As the title suggests, the poetry uses science as metaphor. It explores the intersection between science and life, quantum theory and love, molecules and gamma rays and despair...
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Sep.01.2006
Published by Alternative-Read
[Magdalena Ball's] mind is a fountain of original ideas, expressed in conventional poetic format...That can only happen after years of struggle and hard work, when finally one has...
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Sep.25.2007
Published by Aaron Paul Lazar
Magdalena Ball’s writing, insightful and deep, engages the reader from page one. Her characters linger long after the story resolves to its perfect conclusion. Highly recommended...
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Published by Book Pleasures
The author’s control of the story is masterly; her insight combining with her exceptional narrative skills to write a story that presents the case of...
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Oct.01.2007
Published by Midwest Book Review
Sleep Before Evening is the story of a brilliant young woman who, after experiencing a death in the family, abandons the promise of her academic career for a desperate search...
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Dec.28.2007
Published by Boychik Lit
what we have here is a full-on rush of ambitious literary fiction. That it largely succeeds as such is no consolation to horny but bookish males hoping for a bit of fluff or a few...
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Aug.03.2007
Published by Roses & Thorns
Magdalena Ball demonstrates her mastery of the musicality of language and many scenes are imbued with striking imagery...As the drama coils tighter and...
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Feb.20.2008
Published by Moondance
The writing is deep and memorable making the novel a true page-turner. The words are chosen masterly; the narrative and the imagery are excellent. The book sounds like the music...
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About Magdalena
Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader. She is the author of the novels Black Cow and Sleep Before Evening, , the poetry books Repulsion Thrust and Quark Soup, a nonfiction book The Art of Assessment, and, in collaboration with Carolyn Howard-Johnson,...
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