Story Circle Book Reviews

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 […]

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 who lived through “segregation, Jim Crow, the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Civil Rights movement and […]

Jo-Ann Vega’s latest anthology, Wolf Woman, presents a moving testament to her gift for illuminating and confronting human emotions in their simplest form. Her collection of fifty free-verse poems speaks tenderly of familial connections, while at the same time revealing a struggle to find that same sort of […]