Story Circle Book Reviews

Brenda O’Bannion pens a lovely, lyrical narrative of her grandmother’s life in By and By, I Reckon. Her story explores one woman’s life in rural Louisiana where inhabitants scraped a living and formed tight community bonds amidst adversity. O’Bannion is a gifted author. I was mesmerized by her […]

The first, short chapter of Kathleen M. Rodgers’ novel The Flying Cutterbucks creates an air of foreboding that the reader never quite shakes. Jewel Cutterbuck is watching the results of the 2020 presidential election, with a purring cat on her lap. Hand shaking, she jumps at odd sounds, […]

Why would a comfortably retired couple of lawyers—she finding success as a mystery writer, he as a nature photographer, both avid hikers and skiers—devote a significant chunk of their money and time to produce and publish a coffee table book on the canyon and mesa country of the […]

Amy Jean’s latest book, Side Steps Terrorizing Sound Bites Part 2, her newest collection of free verse poetry, brings to light many of life’s truths as she’s found them in an “intense poetic clang.” Where did these terrifying/terrorizing thought bits come from? In an interview on Women Writers, […]

Lost Girls, by Ellen Birkett Morris, first pulled me in with the title. Then, the cover image of a barefoot girl balancing on the track of the railroad, which is also known as the “permanent way,” got me curious. Where is she going? She seems naïve: no shoes, […]