Every time I picked up this book, I kept putting it down after a bit to reflect. And sometimes cry. Or cringe. Absorb. Pause. Reread. That’s the impact of author, […]
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A Woman of Worth: A Memoir
When you meet a mentally sharp person closer to 100 than to 90, you’re apt to ask a lot of questions, especially if that nonagenarian is a black American woman […]
Read MoreYaYa’s Big Black Purse
Erma Bombeck once said, “When humor goes, there goes civilization.” Tassie Kalas’s comedic memoir, YaYa’s(Grandmother’s) Big Black Purse, provides hilarious, spontaneous glimpses into her extended Greek family’s attempts to navigate […]
Read MoreAn Interview with Susan J. Tweit
While award-winning writer and plant biologist Susan J. Twiet’s book Bless the Birds: Living with Love in a Time of Dying is about the death of a beloved husband, the author […]
Read MoreThe Memory of All That: A Love Story about Alzheimer’s
Mary MacCracken writes with honest poignancy in beautiful prose in The Memory of All That: A Love Story about Alzheimer’s as she shares her observations and tribulations of her beloved […]
Read MoreDragons in my Classroom
Maria Popova, a Bulgarian-born American writer, once said, “…it can take us years or decades of hindsight and reflection to arrive at the truth of our experience, any experience, and […]
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