Book Review: The Banned Books Club
The Banned Books Club by Brenda Novak gets off to a slow and awkward start. I regret that I didn’t read the Author’s Note before I started reading the book: […]
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Happy 65th Birthday, Susan Wiggs!
Y’all know that Susan Wiggs is my most favorite author. Her books take up two shelves in my library. It all started with a sticker on Enchanted Afternoon at Costco […]
Book Review: This American Ex-Wife
This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life by Lyz Lenz is a brilliant blend of memoir and research findings. Ms. Lenz eloquently sums up why […]
Celebrating 15 Years of V-Days!
She’s called V now. In 2009, I launched my humble blog on V-Day to honor Eve Ensler’s global quest to end violence against women. I never dreamed that V-Day would morph into […]
Bravo, E. Jean Carroll!
We were told that the generals in Trump’s cabinet would be effective guardrails. They weren’t. They were impotent to stop him. We were told Robert Mueller would hold him accountable. He deflected to Attorney […]
Book Review: Bright Lights, Big Christmas
Are you as sick as I am of Hallmark movies where woman perpetually ditch their highly successful, big city careers to move to a boring, rural, small town for some […]
Book Review: The Giver of Stars
If you are looking for a new author, I recommend Jojo Moyes. I’ve read several of her books recently, and The Giver of Stars is the most compelling. It is […]
Celebrating: V-Day25!
It began 25 years ago today with Eve Ensler’s production of The Vagina Monologues and became a world-wide One Billion Rising (OBR) call for freedom and an end to violence […]
Book Review: The Tobacco Wives
It’s rare that I give a book five stars. The Tobacco Wives is Adele Myers‘ debut novel, and I read it cover-to-cover yesterday. The way Ms. Myers wove together disparate […]
Book Review: Hungry
Today is the 15th anniversary of my abusive, tyrannical father’s death. I’ve always loved the irony that I was liberated on Bastille Day! It has taken me six years to […]
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