by Sarah Hutchins | Jun 6, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
Columbia University alumni Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters have curated 30 essays by women writers, including themselves, on the subject of home in This Is the Place. “We realized that home is a loaded word, a complex idea: it’s a place that is safe, sentimental,...
by Sarah Hutchins | May 16, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, War & Military
Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano arrived at the Fourth Recruit Training Battalion at Parris Island in South Carolina, an all-female unit, determined to improve the women’s performance. When she succeeded, she was fired. She realized that the Marine Corps,...
by Katie Richards | May 10, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History
John Prevas, a leading contemporary authority on Hannibal, has set out in this book to evoke the figure of Hannibal for the average reader with an interest in history, and in this he is largely successful. He gives enough background on Hannibal that the average reader...
by Sarah Hutchins | May 1, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, NW Setting, Travel
Jaime de Angulo, born in Spain and raised in France, became a legend in California, particularly around the Big Sur as a self-trained linguist and ethnologist, a novelist, and a poet. He traveled around California learning native languages and stories and even studied...
by Axie Barclay | Mar 28, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Books About Books
Facts about Jane Austen are reiterated again and again by biographers and yet we continue to wonder who was this woman that wrote these novels and, more importantly, what does her writing have to say about its author? Helena Kelly presents a ground-breaking theory in...
by L Ruby Hannigan | Feb 27, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Nature, Outdoors & Animals, Social Science
Shoba Narayan decides to move her family back to India from Manhattan, New York. She immediately is caught up in the traditional Indian culture when she encounters a cow in the elevator to her new apartment and invites it inside. Accompanying the cow is the milk lady,...