Bodhi Tree Book Review Magazine

At one time, the Bodhi Tree Bookstore published a book review magazine with the first issue coming to life in late 1992. Dana LaFontaine and Mark Kenniston were the creators and first editors. Mariam Angel played a strong role as an editorial assistant.

The Book Review was 11 by 14 inches in format, printed on newsprint and 32 to 56 pages long. It contained feature articles by noteworthy authors, best seller lists, and short reviews of recently published books, CDs and video cassettes.

The Book Review started as a quarterly but eventually was published two times a year, in the Spring and Fall. At its peak, 40,000 copies of each issue were printed. About 50% were mailed out to customers and the other 50% given away to customers at the store.

In 1993, Dana LaFontaine left the Bodhi Tree Bookstore leaving Mark Kenniston as the sole editor. Then in 1994, Mark Kenniston departed and the primary editor of the book review became Stan Madson with co-editors James Culnan and Camilla Denton. Subsequent reviews were written by staff (both current and former), particularly Louise Avila, Ivy Camille Sharpe, Dana LaFontaine, and Cheryl Parker, as well as by the editors, James Culnan, Camilla Denton, and Stan Madson. Other review writers included Paul Austad, Sean Breheny, Jo Carey, Steven Konstantine, Margaret Malloy, Rose Z. Moonwater, Gretchyn Lenger, Kevin M. Maxwell, Lisa Stevenson, T. L. Krishna Streeter, William H. Stroup, and Lisa Tserling.

Many of the book and product reviews have been re-edited and appear on the Bodhi Tree web site. Several of the feature articles have also been re-edited and placed on the Bodhi Tree web site in Lecture Transcripts.

Publication of the Book Review ceased with the 2002 Fall issue. The last five issues of the Bodhi Tree Bookstore Book Review magazine (complete, including all pictures and advertising) are available as downloadable Adobe files (pdf). After you open the file, you have a document that can be increased or decreased in page size, one that allows keyword search, and finally, one that can be printed out.

The Adobe Acrobat Reader software to display the pdf file is free online.

Issue	Download Info
2002 Winter	The file size is 7.7 megabytes and may take many minutes to download.
2002 Summer	The file size is 2.3 megabytes and may take several minutes to download.
2001 Winter	The file size is 3.1 megabytes and may take several minutes to download.
2001 Summer	The file size is 3.6 megabytes and may take several minutes to download.
2000 Winter	The file size is 4.3 megabytes and may take several minutes to download.