Story Circle Book Reviews

Did I pick up this book for an education about female sexuality, Jewish tradition, and psychotherapy? No, I did not; but to my surprise, I was soon absorbing new information wrapped seamlessly into an engrossing story. The main character, Rachel Levine, is a graduate student in clinical psychotherapy […]

Kirsteen MacLeod refers to herself as “a serial retreater, creating islands of space and time, a week here, a month there, to answer a faint call, barely heard above the din of the everyday.” Wondering why she is so interested “in retreat and its yin companions, solitude and […]

Harebrained, kooky, delirious, naïve, wacky, confused, foolish, hoodwinked: all adjectives that could be attributed to Edna and Leo Roper, the parents of author Elizabeth Roper Marcus. In her memoir, Don’t Say a Word: A Daughter’s Two Cents, Marcus takes the reader on a riveting journey into the last […]

If you’ve never heard of the early 20th century author Rachel Field, kindly know that Robin Clifford Wood has just published a richly researched, hybrid-structured biography/memoir of the extraordinary woman who became a Newbery winner, novelist, playwright, and Hollywood movie script writer in the early 1900s. Field was […]