With Autumn in, I feel the need to rapidly record my rare reads of the receding-out-to-sea summer. Rememberings, Sinéad O'Connor, 2021....

1996, Riverhead Books This book is a classic I hadn't heard of until Yvonne lent it to me. I loved it. James McBride and his many...

2000, Folio On January 9, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, their 2 children and his parents, and attempted to kill his mistress....

2021, HQ, Harper Collins Publishers Esther Safran Foer recounts the search for her family's Ukrainian past in this Holocaust memoir. Her...

While reading an essay by Hillary Mantel, (about the British Royals), I learned of the poet Stevie Smith. I like this quote by her: Read...

2022, BlessingShares Writer and poet Blessing Okoro wrote these poems during the 2020 lockdown, which she describes as a time of ...

I was fortunate to be able to attend, on-line, the beautiful memorial service for Savonnah on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Amidst the...

My family and I are sad that my cousin's daughter, Savonnah, 23, passed away unexpectedly on April 16, 2023. Savonnah, may you rest in...

2022, St Martin's Press Original version, 2018: Sorcières: La Puissance Invaincue des Femmes, Editions La Découverte Diane gave me this...

In 1950 in the United States, young mother Jean Field lost custody of her two children because she taught them that Black people should...

I met Christine a few months ago at an event and felt a kindred spark when she was happy to talk about books. How do you decide whether...

Excerpt from Tolstoy's journal: December 15th -- I am much dissatisfied with yesterday. Tomorrow I must rise early, spend the morning...

2021, Editions du Seuil Camille Kouchner speaks out about a family secret hidden for 20 years. Olivier Duhamel, her once trusted and...

2021, Vintage Charlotte gave me this book for my birthday after we decided to visit the Nissim Camondo Museum in Paris for the same...

Published 1894 "I love this book so much that I'm posting it just to say so, more content coming soon," that was in 2019. Call me the...

2020, St Martin's Press In the wake of protests over the death of George Floyd in May 2020, preacher Michael Eric Dyson wrote of his...

Dear older generation, Young adults are depressed at the state of the world. It's been a rough few years with the pandemic, and now the...

1982, Flammarion Around the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I saw Ivan the Terrible staring out at me ominously from the cover...

2008, Editions Tallandier Like Anne Frank, Hélène Berr kept a journal during the Nazi occupation of her city; both died in the...

I Aucun de nous ne reviendra, 1965 II Une Connaissance Inutile, 1970 III Mesure de Nos Jours, 1971 Charlotte Delbo was arrested in 1942...