From the ironic epigraph to the 626th page, this monumental work held my attention. Caroline Fraser’s work provides not only a deep study of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life, but a […]
Fights for equality are a part of American history. Future generations, though, won’t know about the more obscure ones without books like Sarah Rickman’s biography, B.J. Erickson: WASP Pilot, which tells […]
I am a memoirist and a quilter whose how-to-write-poetry books are tucked into a corner of my bookcase, rarely used. Their condition well-matches my skills in reviewing poetry. Yet years […]
Mary Jo Doig introduces a mystery at the beginning of Patchwork, then unravels it as she takes us from her early childhood to the present, struggling to please everyone she cared […]
A historian’s low opinion of early feminist poet Emilia Bassano Lanyer, who may have been the dark lady of Shakespeare’s sonnets, prompted Charlene Ball to research and write about the […]
This is a novel about making hard cider and being an entrepreneur…on the surface. Stark-Nemon writes with a strong sense of place and her longing to draw the reader into […]
