Story Circle Book Reviews

Sofi Papamarko introduces us to a bundle of reality mixed into the fictional world of a dozen individual stories in Radium Girl. It begins with “Margie & Lu,” the Bathurst Twins, who are very distinct young ladies. Margie is wild, willful, and loud. Luna is shy, quiet, and […]

What a pleasure to read a book of poems in celebration of water. Poets pay attention and in the case of this anthology, attention is paid to “varied and loved watery places, water systems, ecologies, and vanishing creatures,” as the book’s editor, Yvonne Blomer, points out in her […]

This collection of wonderfully crafted short stories portray snippets of everyday life in the extraordinary light they deserve. After all, there is never anything ordinary about anyone’s existence, not really. Each story is wrapped carefully in its own tidy package, coming together in the end like the bow […]

Similar to Orange is the New Black, Razor Wire Wilderness is mostly about female inmates, the unique difficulties female inmates endure while incarcerated, and the common choices and traumas that contribute to a large number of women committing certain crimes. And similar to Piper Kerman’s retelling of her […]

Jen Sookfong Lee is a novelist and with this first book of her poetry, I got the sense of reading a novel. There is a flow to the narrative that kept me engaged as if listening to revelations that could not be interrupted. The content is disturbing, which […]