Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
September 2010, Vol. 3, No 8
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We provide a review venue for small presses, university and regional presses, and for women authors whose books may not be reviewed elsewhere. We are selective in the books we review and choose only those we think are worth reading. If you're looking for mass-market, high-profile books, you'll find those reviewed on other sites. If you're looking for strong, insightful, well-written books by women of strength and courage, you'll find them here. With over a thousand reviews and a team of sixty-some reviewers, Story Circle Book Reviews is the largest and most comprehensive women's book review site on the Internet. For previous issues of our monthly eletter, go here.
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Book Report
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• Editors' Picks:
Every month, our editors choose remarkable books by and about special women. Here are our choices for this month:
• Moms With Heart
• Women of Different Times, Different Places
• Women and the Artful Life
• Food: Our Bodies, Our Kitchens, Our Environment
• Our Favorite Authors
Read Susan Ideus's interview with Daphne Kalotay, author of Russian Winter.
A New Jersey native, award-winning author Daphne Kalotay grew up in a multi-cultural family—a Canadian mother and a Hungarian father, a fact which no doubt influenced her writing. She attended Vassar and went on to earn a Ph.D. in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Boston University.
Read Susan J. Tweit's interview with Ann Vileisis, author of Kitchen Literacy.
Ann Vileisis became interested in history and environmental issues as an undergraduate at Yale University where she earned her B.A. She also has a masters degree in history from Utah State University.
• Our Reviewers
Congratulations to Susan Tweit, who has joined our stellar team of Star Reviewers! (Stars have posted 10 or more reviews/interviews in the past 18 months and have their own web pages.) And to Susan Ideus, who has become a SuperStar (SuperStars have posted 25 reviews/interviews).
If you're interested in joining our review team, go here for all the details.
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Cover Stories
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• Advertising your book at SCBR.
We are now posting carefully selected ads on our website.books and writing-related activities that we're confident you will enjoy. If you are a new author, please consider StoryCircleBookReviews as a part of your promotional efforts. Promotion on our site will allow you to take advantage of SCN's growing reputation as a unique member of the international community of women writers. Details to come.
• SCN Online Classes:
The Story Circle Network offers the only online lifewriting program designed exclusively for women. We teach general writing skills, organization, and critical editing, as well as technical skills in book design and development, online marketing, blogging, and other Internet-related activities. For full class listings, faculty bios, enrollment, and more, visit our website.
• SCN Mentor Program:
SCN offers opportunities for self-directed writers working on a specific writing project. We connect you with a helpful mentor who provides you with individually tailored, constructive assistance designed to help you strengthen your writing, sustain your efforts, and complete your projects. SCN mentors are published lifewriters. They fully understand the challenges we face when we choose to write about our lives.
• HerStories: The Story Circle Blog:
The Story Circle Bloggers are a dozen women writers who regularly share their passion for the art and craft of lifewriting. Drop in to see what the HerStories crew is up to this week!
The Story Circle Bloggers are a dozen women writers who regularly share their passion for the art and craft of lifewriting. Drop in to see what the HerStories crew is up to this week. And check out the SCN Podcast, the real voices of our very own SCN true women!
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Review of the Month
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Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness
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From Susan Schoch's review:
Born in County Cork in 1837, Mary Harris was just eight years old when her native Ireland was devastated by a potato blight that caused mass starvation, disease, and an enormous exodus. A million people died in seven years, another million left the small country. Passage was dangerous and expensive, and made more difficult by the politics of English control in Ireland.
More...
Reviewer of the Month: Susan Schoch
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True Words From Real Women
"Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how to nurture the talent of selection. Book browsing is a meditative art...Books are as essential as breathing."
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Read more thoughtful words from women writers.
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Three Books from SCN
What Wildness is This
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Kitchen Table Stories
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Who We Are
Our mission: The Story Circle Network is dedicated to helping women share the stories of their lives and to raising public awareness of the importance of women's personal histories. We carry out our mission through publications, a web site, classes, workshops, writing and reading circles, and woman-focused programs. To join us, see our online membership form.
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- The monthly Internet Chapter e-Letter is sent only to members of the Internet Chapter; it features chapter news and events.
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This e-Letter is written and edited by Peggy Moody & Susan Wittig Albert. It is a publication of the Story Circle Network, (P.O. Box 500127, Austin TX 78750-0127). ©2010 Story Circle Network
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