by Addison Fleming | Aug 14, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Books About Books
At present, the most notable members of the “Lost Generation,” a group of American writers reflecting on their experiences during and after the Great War, are Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein. A significant member of the Lost Generation,...
by Seniye Groff | Aug 11, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Sports & Recreation
After finishing The Push by world class rock climber Tommy Caldwell, this reviewer was unsure of what to feel. The book is not your typical athlete biography because it explores much more than past heroic athletic accomplishments and accolades. The Push manages to...
by Mary-Lynne Monroe | Aug 1, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Sponsored, War & Military
Like any good story, most memoirs have at their core an event or a thematically related series of events. Generally, traumatic ones. Kari Rhyan’s debut memoir Standby for Broadcast provides this to an extreme. Her experiences as a combat nurse in Afghanistan entwine...
by Whitney Morton Woodcock | Jul 31, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Sponsored
It can’t be said that Shirley Rose Webb has had an uneventful life. She was born in Costa Rica, her parents sought work in the U.S. when she was six, she and her six siblings lived on her grandmother’s farm, she watched cows give birth, got a bone infection in her leg...
by L Ruby Hannigan | Jul 26, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Psychology
Memory’s Last Breath is quite a remarkable story of the life that Gerda Saunders, the author, is currently facing. Born and raised in South Africa, she was a driven young lady, striving for scholarships and to study abroad in America. Early in her marriage, she...
by Stephen Febick | Jul 7, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry
To say that Weldon Kees is an obscure poet is an understatement – outside of the poetry world you won’t find anyone who’s heard of him, and even in poetry circles he is something of an obscurity. Yet he was a peer of Robert Lowell’s and right there in...