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Alyson Grossman is a middle school librarian and has been enjoying audio books on her commute to work for many years. She reads mostly YA fiction though she loves reading picture books to her new daughter Lainey.
Reviewers
Betsy Woodman
Educated on four continents, Betsy Woodman has worked as a research editor, music director, teacher, software engineer, and evaluator of youth programs. She reviewed for Kliatt for thirty-four years. Her interests in cross-cultural arts range from Scottish music to Bollywood movies.
Bette Ammon
Bette Ammon is the Director of the Coeur d’Alene Public Library in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Bob Gewanter
After graduation from both Big Ten and Ivy League schools with a BS and MS in Microbiology, Bob Gewanter spent nearly 43 years in the Food Industry. While he is now enjoying retirement in rural New Hampshire he is also currently the chairman of the Library Board in his town. His family has long had a great interest in the world of books. His late wife was a library trustee and his daughter is a librarian at the University of Maryland. He is a voracious reader and audio listener.
Carol Kellerman
Carol Kellerman taught Spanish before becoming a secondary school librarian, receiving the AASL/SIRS Intellectual Freedom Award in 1986. She now promotes and participates in the "reading to a dog" program for elementary students who are having reading problems. She has reviewed audio books for 15 years
Carol Reich
Carol Reich was a youth services librarian and then YS division manager for many years and has also recently taken over the adult division of her public library, serving as Reader Services Manager. She wrote audiobook reviews for KLIATT from 1992 to 2008.
Catherine Healey
Catherine Healey, who has a bachelor’s degree in communications and master’s degrees in education and library science, is a reference librarian at a college library. She has also served as an adult services librarian for a large urban public library system.
Danielle Lord
Danielle Lord recently received her Masters in Library Science. She loves reading and listening to audiobooks.
Debbie Henderson
Debbie Henderson is a children’s librarian at a public library. She was a medical librarian before she saw the light and made the switch. She is the mother of three teenagers, and is captain of a dragon boat team.
Francine Levitov
Francine Levitov was a high school
English teacher and had a second career in law as a New York public
defense attorney before discovering audiobooks. Now in her third professional reincarnation, she is a former KLIATT audiobook reviewer and, along with Jean Palmer, a founding co-editor of SoundCommentary.com.
Gina Wells
Gina Wells has a BA in historical studies and an MLS. She is state certified to teach information literacy. She has spent the last three years as a youth services librarian and the last six encouraging information literacy as a substitute teacher. Also a mother of three boys, she realizes that she has the best three jobs in the world.
Hugh M. Flick
Hugh M. Flick, Jr. has a PhD in Sanskrit, a JD, and an MBA. He has taught at Harvard and at Yale and is currently the Dean of Silliman College at Yale.
Irene Bessette
Irene Bessette has worked with various animal organizations over many years; has a dog, a cat and several horses. And she has been an audio listener for many, many years as well. She is responsible for finally convincing SoundCommentary's Editor Jean Palmer to listen to her first audiobook!
Janet Julian
Janet Julian was a high school English teacher forthirty-five years and a KLIATT reviewer for thirty-two. She retired in 2001 and gives audiobooks to those friends who still commute.
Jean Palmer
Jean Palmer was a librarian in a public library, then a librarian/educator at the largest private high school library in the US. She also wrote and edited audiobook reviews at KLIATTand many other national and local newspapers and magazines. She is, of course, an audiobook fanatic and, along with Fran Levitov, a founding co-editor of SoundCommentary.com.
Jean Palmer
Jean Palmer and Francine Levitov are founding co-editors of Sound Commentary.
Jennifer Barth
Jennifer Barth is Teen Services Librarian at the Irondequoit Public Library. She tries to read, or listen to, (at least) one book a week so she will always have something new to recommend to her teen readers. Some weeks are more successful than others
Jennifer Ward
Jennifer Ward is currently a youth services librarian at Albany Public Library, NY and has been a Vermont school and community librarian. She lives on the border of Vermont with her service dog Tess who adores pulling book trucks. They are especially fond of listening to audiobooks, particularly during their daily commute.
Joanna Theiss
Joanna Theiss is a lawyer who lives and works in Washington, D.C. She is a wannabe English major whose love of books and audiobooks runs in the family (her mom is also a reviewer for SoundCommentary.com).
Jodi Israel
Jodi Israel has her Masters in Library Science and is a former school librarian currently working in the strange world of banking compliance. She has fed her fiction addiction by reviewing audiobooks for KLIATT and Library Journal for the better part of two decades. But she isn't old!
John E. Boyd
The late John E. Boyd was involved in education for 50 years. He held degrees from Penn State and Temple U. and taught at all levels from elementary to graduate school. He served in various editorial capacities for the International Reading Association. He grew up in the pre-TV era "when radio was king" so the transition to audiobooks was a natural.
Joseph DiMercurio
Joe DiMercurio works as a librarian in Southern California. Well into his third career, he started in the private sector, taught ESL and English at the middle and high school levels and is finally at home where his love of reading and interest in gadgets and technology come together. He lives with his wife and cats in a suburb of Los Angeles.
Kerry Keegan
Kerry Keegan has worked as a young adult librarian and is currently the Head of Access Services at the Health Sciences Library at Stony Brook University. Her interests include sharing great literature, semantic technologies, web site design, and creative uses of limited budgets. She holds a BA in English from Stony Brook University and a MS in Library and Information Science from Queens College
Kristen Gallagher
Kristin Gallagher is the Technology Services Librarian at Fairport Public Library in upstate New York.
Laura Zelasnic
Laura Zelasnic is a Certified Archivist and freelance historical researcher. She holds an M.L.S. and has done extensive graduate work in American History. She has been a contributor to the "Encyclopedia of New York State" and "Resistance: A History of the Lower East Side." Currently she volunteers at the Open Center, an urban holistic learning center in New York City.
Lorraine Ng
Lorraine Ng is a devoted audiophile who swears that books on tape has saved her sanity during her long commutes to work. A health administrator who recently received her MLS, Lorraine is ready for her next exciting career as a librarian.
Mary Cummings
Mary Cummings is a recently retired teacher of the Deaf and K-12 school library media specialist. Her mother is also a retired school librarian.
Mary Purucker
Mary Purucker was a school librarian at all levels, taught Children's Literature and Young Adult Literature at several universities, has written many reviews for professioal journals,and now works in the Children's Department of a public library.
Matthew Aptekar
Matt Aptekar is a computer helpdesk manager and an avid reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Matt is a story teller and a listener.
Melody Moxley
Melody Moxley is an Administrative Services Manager of the Rowan Public Library and a former reviewer for KLIATT.
Miles Klein
Miles Klein practiced optometry in New York for 41 years (until he got it right). His retirement has taken him from New York to New Jersey to Florida to Texas while indulging in his great passions: grandparenting, Scrabble, volunteer work, nature, audio books, cooking . . . and did we mention grandparenting?
Nancy Chaplin
Nancy Crowder-Chaplin was a Director of Religious Education for a Unitarian-Universalist church for ten years and, for the last 10 years, a Department of Correctional Education librarian at The Virginia Correctional Center for Women where she also co-ordinates a college program for incarcerated women.
Nola Theiss
Nola Theiss was a high school teacher, owned her own business, was elected Mayor of Sanibel, FL, and is now Executive Director of Human Trafficking Awareness Partnerships, Inc. She has written reviews for local newspapers and the KLIATT Journal for over 10 years.
Norma Betz
Professor Norma L. Betz earned her doctorate from Drew University in New Jersey. A financial aid director and professor of sociology and history for many years at New Jersey colleges, she presently works and teaches at Ocean County College. She and her husband Allen make their home with Quincy, their beloved Weimaraner, in Manahawkin, on the New Jersey Shore.
Olivia Durant
Olivia Durant is a Teen Services Librarian in upstate New York. When not competing in Scrabble tournaments, she is an avid knitter and reader. Her favorite position for these activities is to be curled up on the couch with two cats around her and the dog sleeping at her feet.
Pat Dole
Pat Dole holds an undergraduate degree in English and an MLS. She has conducted workshops and written 2 hardcover and 5 softcover publications, as well as articles and reviews. She was born loving to read.
Rachel Claire
Rachel Claire has a BA in Philosophy Within Literature, and has had work experience as an international tour guide, counselor, teacher and organic gardener. She reads and listens to many stories.
Rhoda Michaels
Rhoda Michaels is a figment of Francine Levitov's imagination. So is Naomi Gurbler. For those interested in actual poets and their work reviewed in this issue, we highly recommend The Essential John Milton and our Editor's Pick of the Month, Your Own Sylvia, a unique, creative account of the life of Sylvia Plath.
Jean Palmer and Francine Levitov wish all of their SoundCommentary readers a happy April Fool's Day.
Robyn Mutnick
Robyn Mutnick is a current Children’s Librarian and former YA Librarian currently residing in New York City. She first discovered the wonders of audiobooks during a solo cross country road trip that was fueled primarily by caffeine and the first audiobook she had ever purchased.
Rozell Overmire
Rozelle Overmire is a resident of San Francisco and a former KLIATT reviewer.
Sara Rofofsky Marcus
Sara Rofofsky Marcus was a theatre major in college. After graduation she became a teacher and also worked in libraries. She is a big fan of audiobooks.
Sherri Forgash
Sherri Forgash Ginsberg has been a law librarian and a reference and children's librarian in New Jersey's busiest public library. She has designed two libraries and currently works with children in grades K-12 and as a consultant to a local college.
Shirley Fetherolf
Shirley Fetherolf has worked as a library media specialist in six states, teaching grades K-12. She presently works at an award-winning magnet high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
SoundCommentary Staff
SoundCommentary is a Review Source on the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database, www.childrenslit.com.
Stephanie Squicciarini
Stephanie Squicciarini is, among other things, the Teen Services Librarian at Fairport (NY) Public Library, the Founder and Director of the Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival, and an audiobook addict. In her "spare" time she serves on the Board of Trustees for her hometown library and on numerous YALSA committees.
Steve Seddon
Steve Seddon is a lover of books who discovered audio books when he began buying them for his father who'd begun to lose his sight. At that time he was travelling 30,000 miles a year in his car, running an elearning business. He soon found he was no longer buying them for his dad but merely to fuel his own craving.
Sue Rosenzweig
Sue Rosenzweig reviewed audiobooks for KLIATT.
Susan Allison
Susan Allison was a Maine high school librarian for 22 years, a children's librarian in a Maine public library, and a high school/middle school librarian at a private school in Thessaloniki, Greece. She wrote book and audiobook reviews for "KLIATT Reviews of Selected Books, Educational Software and Audiobooks."
Susan Offner
Susan Offner teaches biology at Lexington High School, Lexington, MA. She has been active in national biology curriculum revisions. She has been reading books on tape for nearly 20 years and for many of those was a reviewer for KLIATT.
Tony Attwood
Tony Attwood lives in England where he is chairman of a media and advertising agency.