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November 12, 2019

by Whitney Smyth

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Thank You, and Goodbye —

by Whitney Smyth on November 12, 2019

It is with great sadness that I must announce that I am no longer able to continue managing Portland Book Review to the degree that it deserves. I have been struggling with a series of interconnected illnesses over the last year, and it has [...]

Everything is Negotiable by Meg Myers Morgan —

by Seniye Groff on July 15, 2019

The premise of Everything is Negotiable is that there are five tactics to get what you want in life, work, and love, and is focused on women. Morgan’s perspective is based on her personal life coupled with her work in academia. She provides [...]

Ike and Kay by James MacManus —

by L Ruby Hannigan on July 12, 2019

The life of Kay Summersby changed dramatically that fateful day she became a driver for General Dwight D. Eisenhower in London, 1942. Kay worked with The Motor Transport Corps and was assigned to drive the American General around the war-torn [...]

Abracadabra! The Magic of Trying by Maria Loretta Giraldo, illustrated by Nicoletta Bertelle —

by Megan McIntyre on July 8, 2019

Author Maria Loretta Giraldo and illustrator Nicoletta Bertelle have created a fresh, endearing, and memorable book about trying new things and not giving up. Before reading and confirming on the back page, the book just felt like Giraldo and [...]

Fractured Destinies by Rabai al-Madhoun, translated by Paul Starkey —

by L Ruby Hannigan on June 27, 2019

This is a complex novel written about the heart-breaking loss of Palestinian people; a loss of home and country. Julie was the daughter of a Palestinian-Armenian woman named Ivana. Ivana fell in love with a British doctor she met in Palestine. [...]

The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson —

by Seniye Groff on June 21, 2019

Miranda Brooks has loving parents and a doting uncle who owns Prospero Books. Her uncle, Billy, celebrated each of Miranda’s birthdays by entertaining her with a scavenger hunt and a visit to the book store. Miranda relished these birthday hunts [...]

The View from Alameda Island by Robyn Carr —

by L Ruby Hannigan on June 14, 2019

The View from Alameda Island is a story about two middle age people trying to dissolve their own tragic marriages, separately but at the same time and possible second chances in life. Lauren Delaney lived the high life according to her [...]

The Gatsby Affair: Scott, Zelda, and the Betrayal that Shaped an American Classic by Kendall Taylor —

by Sarah Hutchins on June 13, 2019

In 2001, cultural historian Kendall Taylor, Ph.D. published Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage. Now Taylor returns to the same subject matter in The Gatsby Affair: Scott, Zelda, and the Betrayal that Shaped an [...]