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NovaStar "NovaStar" Reviewer: Trilla Pando

       
Trilla Pando     After years of living in rural Georgia, I now lives in my favorite city, Houston, Texas where I write, do volunteer work, play with a grandson, and enjoy all the plays, concerts, museums and general fun I missed during her country years. (There's a time for everything.) I have been an SCN member for many years, as well as a contributing editor to the Story Circle Journal for several years and a member of the board. In 2005, I became president for a two-year term. I also am a member of the Internet Chapter, where I have belonged to both reading and writing circles. Of all of my SCN activities, I particularly relish writing book reviews. Doing so has made me both a more careful reader, as I seek to capture the essence of a book, and a more adventuresome one, as I enjoy the fun of sharing a new experience.

Trilla Pando specializes in reviewing books about Food, Cooking and Kitchen Matters.

  1. Adair, Liz. Counting the Cost

  2. Albert, Susan Wittig. Writing from Life: Telling Your Soul's Story

  3. Angelou, Maya. Mother: A Cradle to Hold

  4. Arnett, Marvin V. Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt

  5. Atherton, Nancy. Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter

  6. Avakian, Arlene Voski. Through the Kitchen Window: Women Writers Explore the Intimate Meaning of Food and Cooking

  7. Baszile, Jennifer. The Black Girl Next Door

  8. Boatright, Joyce Murray. Telling Your Story: A Basic Guide to Memoir Writing

  9. Bryson, Karen Mueller, Ph.D. Those They Left Behind: Interviews, Stories, Essays and Poems by Survivors of Suicide

  10. Childs, Laura. Death Swatch

  11. Clement, Blaize. Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter

  12. Clement, Blaize. Duplicity Dogged the Dachshund

  13. Clement, Blaize. Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues

  14. Clift, Eleanor. Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics

  15. Conant-Park, Jessica & Susan Conant. Fed Up

  16. Daniell, Rosemary. Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives

  17. Daniell, Rosemary. interview

  18. Daugharty, Janice. Heir to the Everlasting

  19. Deen, Paula. It Ain't All About the Cookin'

  20. Delman, Lisa R. Dear Mom, I've Always Wanted You to Know

  21. Downie, Ruth. Terra Incognito: A Novel of the Roman Empire

  22. Drummond, Ree. The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels

  23. Dychtwald, Maddy & Christine Larson. Influence: How Women's Soaring Economic Power Will Transform Our World for the Better

  24. Eckhardt, Nadine. Duchess of Palms

  25. Edgar, Robin. interview

  26. Ellis, Mary. A Widow's Hope

  27. Ferris, Monica. Thai Die: A Needlecraft Mystery

  28. Finnamore, Suzanne. Split: A Memoir of Divorce

  29. Ganahl, Jane. Single Women of a Certain Age: Romantic Escapades, Shifting Shapers, and Serene Independence

  30. Gideon, Melanie. The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After

  31. Gilbert, Celia. An Ark of Sorts

  32. Gorman, Amy. Aging Artfully

  33. Gross, Jane. A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents—and Ourselves

  34. Gussin, Patricia. The Test

  35. Holstein, Dr. Barbara Becker. Delight

  36. Horn, Janet, M.D. and Robin Miller, M.D. The Smart Woman's Guide to Midlife and Beyond

  37. Ironside, Virginia. No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club: Diary of a 60th Year

  38. Isay, Dave, editor. Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps

  39. Juba, Stacy. Twenty-Five Years Ago Today

  40. Junious, Ellen Denise. Unleash the Power of Personal Advantage: 7 Keys to Unlock Your Potential for Success

  41. Karr, Mary. Lit

  42. Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

  43. Koen, Karleen. Dark Angels

  44. Leleux, Robert. The Living End: A Memoir of Forgetting and Forgiving

  45. Levy, Naomi. Hope Will Find You: My Search for the Wisdom to Stop Waiting and Start Living

  46. Lippincott, Sharon M. The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing

  47. Matloff, Judith. Home Girl: Building a Dream House on a Lawless Block

  48. May-Waldman, Diana. A Woman's Song

  49. McArthur, Judith N. and Harold L. Smith. Texas Through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth Century Experience

  50. McMillan, Terry. Getting to Happy

  51. Midkiff, Mary Lou. Lillie Davenport: Pioneer Mother

  52. Miller, Barbara. You Lost Your Marriage Not Your Life

  53. Mitsch, Darelyn DJ. Mystic Grits: A Southern Girl's Journey to Wisdom

  54. Monroe, Debra. On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family Against the Grain

  55. Mundy, Liza. Michelle: A Biography

  56. Murphy, Yannick. The Call

  57. Myers, Linda Joy. Don't Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment

  58. Nicholas, Theresa. Buryin' Daddy: Putting My Lebanese, Catholic, Southern Baptist Childhood to Rest

  59. Padgett, Fran. Breast Cancer: No One Chose This Journey

  60. Reynolds, Linda & Joy Goodale. Butterflies Don't Sting

  61. Rogers, Mary. Dancing Naked: Memorable Encounters with Unforgettable Texans

  62. Simon, Clea. Cries and Whiskers

  63. Sittenfeld, Curtis. American Wife: A Novel

  64. Small, Betsy. Poems of Awakening: An International Anthology of Spiritual Poetry

  65. Smallwood, Carol. Compartments: Poems on Nature, Feminitity and Other Realms

  66. Stockett, Kathryn. The Help

  67. Stuckart, Diane A. S. A Bolt from the Blue: A Leonardo da Vinci Mystery

  68. Styne, Marlys Marshall. Reinventing Myself: Memoirs of a Retired Professor

  69. Styron, Alexandra. Reading My Father: A Memoir

  70. Thomas, Pattie (with Carl Wilkerson). Taking Up Space: How Eating Well & Exercising Regularly Changed My Life

  71. Tripp, Dawn. Game of Secrets

  72. Wallis, Velma. Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

  73. Walls, Jeanette. Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

  74. Webb, Betty. Desert Cut

  75. Wicklund, Susan (with Alan Kesselheim). This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor

  76. Wisniewski, Linda. Off Kilter: A Woman's Journey to Peace with Scoliosis, Her Mother, and Her Polish Heritage

  77. Woolley, Jackie. The Sound of Windmills

  78. Wyman, Anne Cabot. Kipling's Cat: A Memoir of my Father

       

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