The Lily Pond: reviews and interviews

Below are links to reviews to date of my memoir The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis, and to two author interviews.

The reviews are listed in the order they appeared. Naturally I have my own takes on all the pieces, but the author's opinions are not what you read reviews for, so I will simply list the particulars and their links.

Reviews:

1) "The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis," review by Mark Callanan, Quill & Quire (October 2008). http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=6257

2) "When madness rules your life," by Robyn Sarah, The Globe and Mail (October 4, 2008). This article discusses memoirs on mental illness by Kay Redfield Jamison, Mark Vonnegut, and Mike Barnes. http://biblioasis.blogspot.com/2008/10/globe-review-of-mike-barness-lily-pond.html

3) "The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis," review by Rachel Bravmann, bp (Fall 2008). http://www.bphope.com/Item.aspx?id=446

4) "Achieving self-definition," review by Shane Neilson, MD, Canadian Medical Association Journal (January 6 2009). http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/180/1/83

5) "In the black box of bipolar disorder," review by Alex Good, Guelph Mercury (January 17 2009). http://news.therecord.com/Life/Books/article/473408

6) "Man challenges accepted wisdom. Man wins," review by R. Belkind, ShareCare AmiQuebec newsletter (Winter 2009, page 5). http://www.amiquebec.org/Documents/Newsletter2009Winter.pdf

Interviews:

1) The Danforth Review, interview by Nathaniel Moore. http://www.danforthreview.com/features/interviews/mike_barnes.htm

2) Biblioasis, interview by Dan Wells. http://biblioasis.blogspot.com/2008/09/lily-pond-introductory-interview-with.html