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Review of the Month
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Two Faces of the Moon
Carolyn McGrath’s memoir is as reflective and inspiring as the full moon she describes sending luminous ripples across water highlighting a path through the trees near her summer retreat. Her descriptions of the natural world on and surrounding a tiny island that became “hers” in Ontario, Canada will […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: environment, Family relations, Good Books, nature, Review of the Month
Tags: environment, Family relations, Good Books, nature, Review of the Month
Recent Reviews
Memoir and Autobiography
From Junkie to Judge
Early abandonment, physical and verbal abuse, neglect, and chaos take a toll on Mary Beth O’Connor beginning at a very early age. With a mother who disconnects emotionally from her children as she struggles with her own abusive relationships and marriages, we witness a tragic cycle that impacts […]
Whispers from the Valley of the Yak: A Memoir of Coming Full Circle
A plane touches tarmac in Chengdu, China, in 1980 as the memoir Whispers from the Valley of the Yak opens. The author has returned to her birthplace with her parents, who as young missionaries fled war-torn China when she was a preschooler. They re-settled in West Virginia. Fascinated, […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Cultures, Family relations, Good Books, War and its effects
Tags: Cultures, Family relations, Good Books, War and its effects
Eggs In Purgatory
Eggs In Purgatory is a memoir that starts with a suicide attempt by Genanne Walsh’s 89-year-old father, who is living in her home. He did not have a terminal illness but wished to die. He obstinately dragged her along with little regard for the effects on her, or […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Alternate-form Memoir, Caregiving, Family relations, Good Books, grief, Growing older
Tags: Alternate-form Memoir, Caregiving, Family relations, Good Books, grief, Growing older
Plums for Months
In “Wildflower Bouquet,” which is one of the prose poems in Plums for Months, author Zaji Cox says, “I love the way mismatched things will fit perfectly together to make something imperfect.” In so many ways that statement sums up the unique observations of the neurodivergent author. She […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Alternate-form Memoir, Author of Color, Good Books, Neurodivergency
Tags: Alternate-form Memoir, Author of Color, Good Books, Neurodivergency
Short Stories
No God Like the Mother
No God Like the Mother is a delightful collection of nine short stories. The theme running through them all like a red thread is the fragility and uncertainty of the human condition and of women’s circumstances in particular. Each and every story is unique in that it portrays […]
Our Favorite Authors
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An Interview with Marita Golden, Author of The Strong Black Woman
Interviewed by: Pat Bean
Categories: Author Interviews, Nonfiction
Tags: Author of Color, Cultures, Good Books, Our Favorite Authors, Our times, Race relations, Sarton winner, Writers and writing
Tags: Author of Color, Cultures, Good Books, Our Favorite Authors, Our times, Race relations, Sarton winner, Writers and writing
An Interview with Kathleen Williams Renk, author of Vindicated: A Life of Mary Shelley
Interviewed by: Pat Bean
Categories: Author Interviews, Biography
Tags: Good Books, History, Our Favorite Authors, Sarton winner, Writers and writing
Tags: Good Books, History, Our Favorite Authors, Sarton winner, Writers and writing