Jill I. Shtulman
Jill I. Shtulman is a marketing communications consultant based in Chicago and the president of JSA Creative Services LLC. Â She writes Web site content, corporate brochures, direct marketing, and other print collateral for a wide range of Fortune 500 and emerging companies, Â and she dabbles in short story writing. Â She is an avid reader and generally devours a book a week. Â Her tastes lean toward strong character-based literary fiction, particularly debut novels and those set in interesting locales. Â She is a top 150 reviewer at Amazon.
Jill has reviewed the following for MostlyFiction.com:
2014
- Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose (4-22-14)
- And the Dark Sacred Night by Julia Glass (4-9-14)
- The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (3-24-14)
- Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li (3-21-14)
- Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyemi (3-10-14)
- Falling to Earth by Kate Southwood (3-5-14)
- Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (2-27-14)
- The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol (2-26-14)
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler (2-15-14)
- Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (2-8-14)
- The Bird Skinner by Alice Greenway (1-31-14)
- Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball (1-22-14)
- Harvest by Jim Crace (1-15-14)
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (1-8-14)
- The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis (1-3-14)
2013
- Let Him Go by Larry Watson (12-31-13)
- The Son by Philipp Meyer (12-23-13)
- Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (12-14-13)
- We Live In Water by Jess Walter (11-27-13)
2011 (Top Picks)
- The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (11-16-11)
- The Submission by Amy Waldman (10-25-11)
- Blueprints for Building Better Girls by Elissa Schappell (10-11-11)
- Child Wonder by Roy Jacobsen (9-28-11)
- Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones (9-28-11)
- Last Man in the Tower by Aravind Adiga (9-20-11)
- Lightning People by Christopher Bollen (9-19-11)
- The Story of a Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon (8-28-11)
- Let’s Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell (8-24-11)
- The Typist by Michael Knight (8-9-11)
- This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman (8-2-11)
- Next to Love by Ellen Feldman (7-28-11)
- Northwest Corner by John Burnham Schwartz (7-26-11)
- Rich Boy by Sharon Pomerantz (7-14-11)
- I Knew You’d Be Lovely by Alethea Black (7-8-11)
- Vaclav & Lena by Haley Tanner (7-4-11)
- The Blind Contessa’s New Machine by Carey Wallace (6-29-11)
- The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips (6-24-11)
- The Upright Piano Player by David Abbott (6-9-11)
- Joy for Beginners by Erica Bauermeister (6-9-11)
- You Are Free: Stories by Danzy Senna (6-2-11)
- In the Garden of the Beasts by Erik Larson (5-19-11)
- The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson (5-5-11)
- Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks (5-3-11)
- The Paperbark Shoe by Goldie Goldbloom (4-21-11)
- Please Look After Mom by Kyung Sook Shin (4-15-11)
- The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen (4-13-11)
- Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman (4-7-11)
- Widow: Stories by Michelle Latiolais (4-7-11)
- Separate Kingdoms by Valerie Laken (3-30-11)
- Emily, Alone by Stewart O’Nan (3-23-11)
- All the Time in the World by E. L. Doctorow (3-22-11)
- Incendiary by Chris Cleave (3-12-11)
- Rodin’s Debutante by Ward Just (3-2-11)
- The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein (2-28-11)
- The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (2-25-11)
- Mr. Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt (2-9-11)
- The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier (2-3-11)
- Extra Indians by Eric Gansworth (1-31-11)
- The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard (1-26-11)
- Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin (1-25-11)
- The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown (1-20-11)
- Serious Men by Manu Joseph (1-2-11)
2010 (Top Picks)
- Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay (12-22-10)
- The Wolves of Andover by Kathleen Kent (12-12-10)
- Under Fishbone Clouds by Sam Meekings (12-7-10)
- The Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (12-2-10)
- Strangers at the Feast by Jennifer Vanderbes (11-24-10)
- Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier (11-20-10)
- Sunset Park by Paul Auster (11-15-10)
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (11-03-10)
- The Blindness of the Heart by Julia Franck (10-22-10)
- The Death of the Adversary by Hans Keilson (10-22-10)
- The Invisible Mountain by Carolina de Robertis (10-09-10)
- The Immortals by Amit Chaudhuri (09-23-10)
- Room by Emma Donoghue (09-18-10)
- Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls (09-18-10)
- Gendarme by Mark T. Mustian (09-02-10)
- Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr (08-20-10)
- Brodeck by Philippe Claudel (08-10-10)
- City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris (08-09-10)
- I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson (08-04-10)
- Father of the Rain by Lily King (07-30-10)
- My Wife’s Affair by Nancy Woodruff (07-22-10)
- This Is Exactly Like You by Drew Perry (07-11-10)
- The Ghost of Milagro Creek by Melanie Sumner (07-07-10)
- A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks (07-04-10)
- The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds (06-28-10)
- In the Company of Angels by Thomas E. Kennedy (06-21-10)
- Dear Money by Martha McPhee (06-06-10)
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