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The Part That Burns
What do you remember? What do you choose to forget? Author Jeannine Ouellette describes The Part That Burns as “a memoir in fragments.” That’s an accurate assessment of the way memory works. (Think back on your own childhood. Do you remember the scenes that had an emotional impact […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography, Nonfiction
Tags: Family relations, Good Books, Review of the Month
Tags: Family relations, Good Books, Review of the Month
Recent Reviews
Fiction
After Happily Ever After
Is marriage for life? Even if it gets boring? Even if he ignores you while a younger fox grabs your attention? We could go on for hours, discussing the importance of contemporary fidelity and whether it’s even realistic, and that’s exactly what Leslie A. Rasmussen has done in […]
Inspirational
Write a Poem, Save Your Life: A Guide for Teens, Teachers, and Writers of All Ages
As a California Poet in the Schools, Meredith Heller teaches poetry workshops “for kids of all ages in both public and private schools.” She says, “Writing poems helps people believe in themselves.” It’s evident in all the examples shared by students in the book that they have learned […]
Memoir and Autobiography
Like Love
Michele Morano’s memoir Like Love provides readers an exploratory look at what that four-letter L word means from childhood to adulthood. It’s a meandering adventure that takes the reader through the intricacies of relationships that come in many forms, from what happens when a mother leaves a father […]
Reaching for Normal
At twenty-six, Amy Daniels is a new mother with an exceedingly cranky baby. She and her husband, Dave, decide to get their daughter checked out by medical professionals, and when they do, they’re told seven-month-old Emily has a brain tumor the size of an orange sitting right in […]
Gray is the New Black
Sixty-three-year-old Dorothy Rice is feeling fat, old, and unloved. Her youngest daughter has left for college and she’s convinced her husband is only staying in the marriage out of habit. She frequently binge-eats in secret, often to the point that she literally makes herself sick. And she’s spent […]
