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In That Number
Regan Burke was named after one of King Lear’s cruel daughters, just one of the surprises the author of In That Number would discover about herself while growing up. But Burke is anything but cruel. She fits into that category far-right conservatives spit out like a cuss word: […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography, Nonfiction
Tags: Family relations, Good Books, Our times, Review of the Month
Tags: Family relations, Good Books, Our times, Review of the Month
Recent Reviews
Fiction
The List of Last Chances
The List of Last Chances is a sweet novel about two women travelling across Canada from Prince Edward Island to British Columbia. They’re not a couple; in fact, Ruthie just became uncoupled when her partner Jack chose another woman. Kay March, seventy-two, is a widow and her son […]
Memoir and Autobiography
Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness
Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness recounts Renée K. Nicholson’s journey to become a professional ballet dancer, as well as the early retirement she was forced to take after being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (R.A.) at the age of twenty-one. Rest assured, you don’t have to […]
The 5th Little Girl: Soul Survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
The bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church happened over 50 years ago. I probably learned about it from a spread in Life magazine. I knew nothing, though, about a fifth girl who witnessed the bombing, lost her sister, became blind in one eye, and lived to tell […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Author of Color, Good Books, History, Race relations, Review of the Month
Tags: Author of Color, Good Books, History, Race relations, Review of the Month
Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage
What an absolutely amazing and fascinating memoir/history/biography. The author, Catherine Ehrlich, is the granddaughter of Irma (Hutter) Kolmar Ehrlich. Irma’s life (she was born in 1890) spanned the turn of the 20th century, both World War I and World War II, and all of the upheavals wrought by […]
Love in Any Language: A Memoir of a Cross Cultural Marriage
A young American woman joins the Peace Corps and completes a stint in Peru. She finds love with young Peruvian man, whom she marries; they embark on a life adventure. This sounds like a movie or a novel, but it’s the real-life story of Evelyn Kohl La Torre […]
