Story Circle Book Reviews

“I know women who enjoy being alone in their homes at night. A single mother at my daughter’s preschool, for instance, says she lives for uninterrupted hours of André Watts’s piano playing when her children are elsewhere. Another, a former student of mine, binge-watches Breaking Bad on Netflix […]

It’s clear from the first pages of Possums Run Amok that this isn’t a traditional memoir in style or pace. Chapters are rapid-fire glimpses into experiences that beg for deeper reflection but instead generate mostly questions before hurtling on to the next episode. It’s also clear this is […]

I love to travel, which made reading Wherever The Road Leads: A Memoir of Love, Travel, and a Van a joy. The story begins with introductions to Katie and Tom during their courtship in 1970. Both are strong and likable characters. The author’s smooth, flawless writing makes the […]

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, poet, and family therapist Sharon Charde’s book, I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent: How Poetry Changed a Group […]

Sasinda Futhi Siselapha [We’re Still Here]: Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty Five Years Since 1994 can best be described as a pedagogical text intended for those proficient in the study of contemporary South Africa or students who might enroll in an African Feminisms […]