1992, HarperCollins In these short stories set in Washington D.C., the author of The Known World invites the reader to see the uniqueness...

Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma 2014, Penguin Books "...most human suffering is related to love and loss..."(p 30)...

Chona runs a grocery store in the poor section of town, and refuses to move when her husband starts moving up in the world. She loves her...

Not all cultures have the same outlook on gender. For example, Native North American societies use the expression Two-Spirits to...

2022, Harper In Demon Copperhead, Kingsolver courageously tackles two crises in the United States: a deficient foster child care system,...

2022, Vanderbilt University Press This book is a witness and a guide to non-violent resistance against racism and injustice. Justin Jones...

1995, Vintage For a long time I've been wanting to learn more about Travellers or Roma, also called Gypsies, a term sometimes considered...

Effroyable jardins, original French title, 2000 I found this short novella lying around the house and decided to read it. It's told by a...

My bookies* Jane, Yvonne and I read Louise Kennedy's first novel many months ago. Longlisted for the 2023 Women’s Prize, it's about a...

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....

I saw no movies this summer until September, when I made up for it, starting with Oppenheimer, which Kat and I went to see on a hot sunny...

Daisy never pays attention to artwork around the house. I mean, she's never said a single word about the framed photo with her boyfriend...

Afters years of resistance to my family's happy-to-sit-on-the-beach-all-day inertia, Hubert appears to have finally given up on the...

Persephone Books Guest Review by Susan Hudson After bringing up children, Priscilla is left asking herself, what was it all for? This...

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...

1994, St. Martin's Press Even if you walk the same road a hundred times, you'll find something different each time. (211) I especially...

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 ...