Story Circle Book Reviews

This novel is an excellent choice for book clubs because it covers many important and timely concerns. Maggie Smith tackles contemporary topics as the lives of three women intersect in Truth and Other Lies. The story is told from the point of view of Megan Barnes, a young, […]

Terraphilia. The word cannot be found in a general dictionary or easily online. As defined by Richard Cabe and Susan Tweit, terraphilia embraces all of life’s many forms, from botanical to animal to human, recognizing the intrinsic affinity humans have with the earth itself. It is a recognition […]

Ruth Rymer’s memoir, Raising the Bar: A Lawyer’s Memoir, took me by surprise. I anticipated a standard story, but as I read it, I realized Rymer was a rebel. For a slim volume, a lot of rebellious living is packed in the pages. First, she married a man […]

On her website, Heather Diamond describes herself as always having had “a rebellious streak and itchy feet,” which would certainly be a fitting (albeit incomplete) summary of her memoir, Rabbit in the Moon. By the time she’s forty-five, Diamond is a twice-married grandmother teaching at a Houston community […]

An Impossible Life: The Inspiring True Story of a Woman’s Struggle from Within (Rachael Siddoway and Sonja Wasden) is the story of Sonja Wasden’s mental health battles, as written by her daughter, Rachael Siddoway. Wasden’s story, narrated in the first person in the form of a memoir, is […]