by Seniye Groff | Jul 15, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Self-Help
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 numerous examples and...
by Norman West | Apr 15, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Relationships & Sex, Social Science
This reviewer is in the unique position of being married over forty years to a woman who, certifiably never lied about the state of our activities. Anywhere, let alone in the bedroom. So I was naturally intrigued by the subject of faking the big O. No, there will be...
by Norman West | Jan 31, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Education, Parenting & Families, Relationships & Sex
This book is a five star mind-bender and an eye-opener. America has its own, exceptional, ways of looking at things and sex education is one thing that is exceptionally poorly done in America. We suffer from elevated levels of unintended births, teenage births,...
by Sarah Hutchins | Oct 10, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, Social Science
As several of the nearly thirty essayists mention editor Michelle Tea’s collection Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, the very fact that they’re writers gives them a certain privilege, perspective, or both not shared by their parents or...
by Sarah Hutchins | Sep 21, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Reference, Self-Help
Part autobiography and part writing manual, Francesca Lia Block’s The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process – aptly named after a Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait – discusses growing up in 1980s LA, where she famously sets her...