Beth Derochea is a poet and writer who earns her living as an administrative assistant. She lives with her wonderful husband, insane cat, a variety of Star Wars toys and never quite enough books in Staten Island, New York. She has been previously published in Sagewoman Magazine.

Reviews by Beth include:

Dead Can Dance
Spiritchaser

John Denver & the Muppets
A Christmas Together

Fathom
Available Light


Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale

Sun Bear, Wabun Wind & Crysalis Mulligan
Dancing with the Wheel: The Medicine Wheel Workbook

Judy Blume, editor
Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers

Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Mists of Avalon

Poppy Z. Brite
Liquor
Lost Souls

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese

Julia Cameron
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Susan Cooper
King of Shadows

Betty Crocker
Betty Crocker's Best Christmas Cookbook

Scott Cunningham
Living Wicca
Sacred Sleep: Dreams & the Divine
Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner

Phyllis Curott
Book of Shadows

Charles de Lint
The Wild Wood

Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol

Lord Dunsany
The King of Elfland's Daughter

Anne Fadiman
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Clifton Fadiman & John S. Major
The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Ian Fleming
Dr. No

Wendy Froud & Terri Windling
A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale
The Winter Child

Neil Gaiman
Coraline
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
Stardust

William Gibson
The Difference Engine, with Bruce Sterling
Pattern Recognition

Allen Ginsberg
Collected Poems: 1947-1980

P.J. Goddard
Libidan

Gloria Hartman
Race for Doroon

Kij Johnson
Fudoki

Amber K & Azrael Arynn K
Candlemas: A Feast of Flames

Alexis Masters
The Giuliana Legacy

Caitlin & John Matthews
Ladies of the Lake

Anne McCaffrey
Dragonriders of Pern #1: Dragonflight
Dragonriders of Pern #2: Dragonquest
Dragonriders of Pern #3: The White Dragon

Dorothy Morrison
Yule: A Celebration of Light & Warmth

Andre Norton & Rosemary Edgehill
The Shadow of Albion: Carolus Rex Book I

Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar

Terry Pratchett
Moving Pictures (Discworld #10)

Silver Ravenwolf
Halloween Customs, Spells & Recipes

Anna Marie Sigmund
Women of the Third Reich

Starhawk, Diane Baker & Anne Hill
Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions

Neal Stephenson
The Diamond Age

Bruce Sterling
The Zenith Angle

Mary Stewart
The Crystal Cave

Terri Windling
The Wood Wife

William Butler Yeats
Selected Poems & Three Plays


Cannon God Exaxxion: Stage 1


Excalibur (film)


Brian Froud, Wendy Froud & Terri Windling: Making faeries


Douglas Adams: So Long, & Thanks for All the Laughs. (rambling)

Earl grey, hot. (rambling)

Grim thoughts on the New Year. (rambling)

In Memoriam: Marion Zimmer Bradley. (rambling)

New York 9-11. (rambling)

Stormy weather. (rambling)