The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz My rating: 3 of 5 stars Many of you have asked for my review of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, so here it is. I hope to hear… Read more ›
Bitter is the New Black : Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster My rating: 3 of 5 stars I checked out Jen Lancaster’s… Read more ›
I’m on the Ms. Magazine Blog today, reviewing Julia Alvarez’s A Wedding in Haiti for your reading pleasure: Feminist novelist Julia Alvarez (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies), known for her clear, unaffected… Read more ›
He Said What?: Women Write About Moments When Everything Changed edited by Victoria Zackheim (Click on the image to buy the book from Powells.com or the text to buy from BarnesandNoble.com and I will receive a sliver of the profits… Read more ›
Follow My Lead: What Training My Dogs Taught Me about Life, Love, and Happiness by Carol Quinn – Purchase Follow My Lead from Powell’s Bookstore via this link and I’ll receive some of the money from your purchase. All comission from the sale… Read more ›
The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate My rating: 5 of 5 stars My friend, Amanda, gave me an advance copy of The Tast of Salt a little while back, and I picked it up shortly thereafter because the cover… Read more ›
The following is a guest post by Becky Beaupre Gillespie and Hollee Schwartz Temple, authors of Good Enough Is the New Perfect: Finding Happiness and Success in Modern Motherhood, which I reviewed here. Hollee and her husband, John, started regular… Read more ›
The Magicians by Lev Grossman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Well. I read this book because Jillian recommended it to me and loaned me the book. And I am absolutely not sad I did. However, I do think the… Read more ›
Good Enough Is the New Perfect by Becky Beaupre Gillespie My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m going to start this review with two important admissions: 1. I am not a mother. 2. I consciously decided not to finish the… Read more ›
Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart by Nina Simons My rating: 4 of 5 stars A review copy of this book has been on my desk since the end of December, and I feel terrible that I’m… Read more ›
The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez My rating: 2 of 5 stars I really, really wanted to like this book. I really, really wanted to finish this book. The fact of the matter is, though, that I’ve never… Read more ›
The cameras missed the outside murders and could not follow Eric and Dylan inside. The fundamental experience for most of America was almost witnessing mass murder. It was the panic and frustration of not knowing, the mounting terror of horror… Read more ›
In the future of America, after the Heartland War, abortion is made illegal. The Heartland War, after all, was not a war involving any military, but was a war between the pro-choice and pro-life forces in America. The war got… Read more ›
Image by GoodNCrazy via Flickr I’m sure by now you’ve all noticed I’ve been conspicuously absent these past few days (or maybe you’ve been busy enough with families and turkeys that my absence hasn’t really been noted). I honestly haven’t… Read more ›
A few weeks ago, I received my very first review copy of a book in the mail, and you can imagine my excitement! The book was Enlightened Sexism by Susan J. Douglas, which only heightened my desire to get started… Read more ›
As a kid, I was completely obsessed with Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. I don’t remember many of the specifics of the books now, as it was a very long time ago that I read them, but I… Read more ›
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman* is one of the most interesting short feminist texts I’ve ever read (need a refresher? Check Wikipedia!). I have a feeling several people agree, so this will be less of a book review… Read more ›
Learn to love the questions themselves. The spaces between the thoughts. The interval (AVA 171)* Every time I am asked who my female mentors are, (like the Twitterverse was yesterday by @ShelbyKnox) I always jump to women authors. Maybe this… Read more ›
I love The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger*. LOVE it. I first read it when I was a sophomore in high school, and loved it then. I picked it up again when I was a junior in college… Read more ›