by Axie Barclay | Jul 6, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Books About Books
A Girl Walks into a Book: What the Brontes Taught Me About Life, Love, and Women’s Work, by Miranda K. Pennington, is an interesting read. It combines the author’s story and that of the Brontes’, not only their books, but their lives, letters, literary criticism, and...
by Dick Weissman | Jun 30, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Music
John Doe has put together a history of L.A.Punk Music in the 1970s. The contributors include his band-mate Exene Cervenka, Charlotte Caffey, and Jane Weidlin of the Au Go-Go’s, and a half dozen other musicians, music critics, and record producers. The book does a fine...
by Whitney Morton Woodcock | Jun 29, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Children's, Science & Technology
Grace Hopper was an early computer programmer – one of the earliest, back when code had to be written by hand on paper. She was a professor, a Navy engineer, and developed groundbreaking programming techniques that we take for granted today, such as the ability to...
by Sarah Hutchins | Jun 27, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, True Crime
Murder captivates the imagination. What makes someone kill? Is it genetic? Are homicidal tendencies a result of a dysfunctional childhood or a manifestation of our narcissistic culture? Questions outnumber the answers, and there are many different methods of gaining...
by Howard Leighton | Jun 14, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, LGBTQ+
In July, 2004 Susan Faludi was the recipient of an e-mail from her father. Since her parents’ divorce in 1977 there had been only a few contacts of short duration between Susan and her father. The e-mail contained photographs labeled “Stefanie” who was in...
by Sarah Hutchins | Jun 8, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Sponsored
An old Cherokee teaches his grandson the story of the two wolves that are at war inside of him and everyone else. The good wolf is a medley of positive emotions whereas the bad wolf is a combination of the negative. When the child asks his grandfather which wolf will...