This archive contains book reviews written by myself and guest writers. Topics are all over the board: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plus size related, writing related books and more.
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” ~ Anna Quindlen
The book is divided into three philosophies the first Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human), the second is Martin Heidegger (Being and Time) and it closes with Soren Kierkegaard, (Fear and Trembling). Susannah uses what she learns from each of these philosophers My review for A Girl’s Guide to Modern European Philosophy was posted on…
I’m currently reading a non-fiction, non-writing book called, The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, MD but I can see influences for creativity and writing the more I learn. The main theme of the book is looking at the brain from a plasticity standpoint instead of a locked one. Last night I was reading…
“A Wedding Guide for the Full-figured Woman” Chamein Canton’s 188 paged hardcover wedding book Down the Aisle in Style proclaims that “women come in all shapes and sizes” as do brides. By far the most important aspect of this book is the information on dresses, veils, and bouquets. Chamein gets down to specifics about each…
“Our Beauty in All Shapes and Sizes” Photographer, Rosanne Olson has created a lovely collection of sepia-toned nude portraits and mini essays by women from ages 19 to 95 for This Is Who I Am. The most important aspect of this collection is that the women are of all shapes and sizes. All have varying…
You often hear of the ties binding women. Water Wings, through the help of one family explores what separates them. Their unique differences and the secrets not shared. Water Wings reads like a slow swim on a calm Sunday morning. The review for Water Wings by Kristen den Hartog was originally written 3/2/2009 for Literary…
The Love Song of Monkey was written by Michael S. A. Graziano, a professor of Psychology at Princeton University. This is a strange little book about a man dying from Aids who sneaks into a hospital with the help of his wife to have an experimental
If you didn’t know Jane Austen wrote a sequel to Emma, that’s because she didn’t. This sequel was written by Rachel Billington. The story opens a year after Emma’s marriage to Mr. Knightley with the couple still living at Hartfield with Mr. Woodhouse.
“As wise as serpents, as harmless as doves.” Iris Murdoch’s The Bell is her fourth of twenty-six published novels. It was released in 1958 but takes place in England in the late forties. This is my second Murdoch novel and I found it flows and is much more vivid in detail than her first book,…