Story Circle Book Reviews: reviewing books by, for, and about women

The Possibility of Everything

Hope Edelman is an intelligent woman, a wife and a New York Times best-selling author. She is also a devoted mother to three year-old Maya. In her memoir, The Possibility of Everything, Edelman finds herself in a stage of her life where she is questioning her purpose and examining the choices she has made.about motherhood, marriage and writing. more...

P.S.: What I Didn't Say

P.S. What I Didn't Say is an anthology about women's friendships. Editor Megan McMorris has selected thirty-six letters to include in this collection. The letters, all written by different women, celebrate and examine past and current friendships from now older and wiser perspectives. more...

Hellie Jondoe

Set in 1918, Hellie Jondoe tells the story of a headstrong young orphan trapped in a series of events beyond her control. more...

Change Your Mindset, Not Your Man

"I hope that you are able to look again at your good-enough man and realize that it isn't necessary or even desirable that he be a prince or that you find a happily ever after," writes Sally Watkins in her self-help book Change Your Mindset, Not Your Man. more...

Cheap: the High Cost of Discount Culture

We may think that we are getting a bargain shopping at discount stores, but Ellen Ruppel Shell gives a well-researched and convincing argument that quality trumps bargains. more...

You Want Me to do What?

Asked "What do you need?" most caregivers would respond readily: rest; solitude; privacy; companionship; recreation; freedom from interruption, worry, frustration, anger, grief, depression. Author B. Lynn Goodwin, who spent seven years doing "Mom Care," says caregivers need a lifeline. more...

Feeding Mrs. Moskowitz

Imagine this. A dumpy elderly widow, Mrs. Moskowitz, who has trouble remembering everyday needs heads out of her apartment for a little grocery shopping. A neurotic young woman, Natalie, obsessing with guilt about how she didn't attend to her mother before her mother's death hurries to work. They collide and a fairy tale is born. more...

Women, Writing, and Soul-Making

Not your ordinary how-to manual, Peggy Tabor Millin's Women, Writing and Soul-Making: Creativity and the Sacred Feminine is a unique and inspiring blend of the poetic, spiritual and practical in which the author seeks a balance between "feminine being and masculine doing." more...