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But You Look So Normal
Thriving Despite the Odds Ever wondered what words sound like to those who cannot hear them? I began to get a clue with Claudia Marseille’s description when she said, “My brain was buzzing with all the new information I was able to take in with the hearing aid; […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Disabilities, Editors' Picks, Good Books, Jewish life, Review of the Month
Tags: Disabilities, Editors' Picks, Good Books, Jewish life, Review of the Month
Recent Reviews
Fiction
The Rossetti Diaries
Trends in art, music, literature, and life come and go, but author Kathleen Williams Renk uncovers a most interesting history regarding a group of artists rebelling against idealistic portrayals such as those popularized by the Italian artist Rafael. While Rafael imagined and painted beautiful scenes of Jesus’s life […]
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Biographical fiction, Family relations, Female friendship, Good Books, History, Women's rights, Writers and writing
Tags: Biographical fiction, Family relations, Female friendship, Good Books, History, Women's rights, Writers and writing
Beware the Tall Grass
Ellen Birkett Morris’s novel Beware the Tall Grass (Columbus State University Press, March 2024) weaves what appear at first blush to be two disconnected stories together in ways that are alternatingly troubling, thought-provoking, and, ultimately, deeply sad and resonant as the novel reaches its conclusions. The worlds of […]
Little Ships
Little Ships begins with drama—the death of a young mother. Yet this novel’s real impact comes from the undramatic, understated way it probes the complications of family and love. That tone is especially on-target for describing the empty life of Nick Becker (a chain-store pharmacist in Oregon), his […]
Memoir and Autobiography
Castles & Ruins
“At the age of seven in the summer of 1965, I lived on an island in Galway, Ireland with my mother Deborah Love, father Peter Matthiessen, and my twelve-year-old stepbrother Luke from my father’s first marriage. . . . Across the waterway from our island in Ireland that […]
Reviewed by: authorjane@icloud.com
But You Look So Normal
Thriving Despite the Odds Ever wondered what words sound like to those who cannot hear them? I began to get a clue with Claudia Marseille’s description when she said, “My brain was buzzing with all the new information I was able to take in with the hearing aid; […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Disabilities, Editors' Picks, Good Books, Jewish life, Review of the Month
Tags: Disabilities, Editors' Picks, Good Books, Jewish life, Review of the Month