I really have to tell the truth here. When I think about non-fiction for my boys age’s two and four, I get overwhelmed. How in the world do I navigate all the books out there and find non-fiction books that they will enjoy? And more importantly, aren’t over their head? Fiction? No problem there a [...]
Please forgive my rambling for a bit. Let me start off by saying that I know NOTHING about baseball. My only experience with the sport is when I lived in Chicago I went to a Sox game once and when I was in my early twenties I was playing a game of softball (not baseball [...]
I have gotten so behind in the number of books that I’ve read but not yet reviewed that I hope you forgive me for failing to write my own summary for The Blue Cotton Gown, A Midwife’s Memoir by Patricia Harman. From the jacket flap:
Patricia Harman, a nurse-midwife, manages a women’s health clinic with her [...]
Picking Cotton, Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson- Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo is an unusual powerful story that I don’t think I’ll ever forget. In her early twenties, Jennifer Thompson was victim to a terrible crime. Her outside lights were smashed, her phone lines cut and while she slept [...]
Why do I love reading memoirs? Because of books like War Child, A Child Soldier’s Story by Emmanuel Jal. What an incredible book that had me thoroughly engrossed. I think using the word engrossed is supposed to be a no-no when reviewing books but how else can I describe a book that had me unable [...]
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