I'm a twenty-something booklover who reads and reviews literary fiction, memoirs, and an eclectic smattering of nonfiction. Personally and professionally, I'm on a mission to keep the written word alive in our increasingly digital culture.
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Recently published October 6, 2009 by HarperCollins
A women’s studies professor I had in graduate school once suggested that the real problems of sexism were not caused so much by the ways we...
Published May 2009 by St. Martin’s Griffin.
H.P. Newquist and Rich Maloof don’t mess around.
We’re not here to talk about the metaphysics of dying or to ponder the mysteries of the Great Beyond. We’re here to talk about...
Published April 2009 by Seal Press
I finished this book almost two weeks ago, and it has taken me that long to wrap my head around writing this review. Purge:Rehab Diaries is Nicole John’s multi-format memoir of living with and seeking treatme...
Set for publication January 27th, 2009 from Ballantine Books
When we first meet Henry Lee, it is 1986, and he is walking past the Panama Hotel in Seattle, which has been boarded up since World War II. Henry notices a crowd gathering on the steps of t...
Published May 2009 by Doubleday (a division of RandomHouse)
My friend Kristen wrote a guest review of this book back in the spring that prompted me to read Ayelet Waldman’s controversial essay in which she said that she loved her husband more than she...
There was a time when I believed, with the police and the media and my stunned parents, that I was the redeemed one, the boy borne safely home on the ebb of whatever freak tide carried Peter and Jamie away. Not any more. In ways too dark and crucial to...
Available in paperback from Hachette; audio book read by Susan Denaker
When I asked for audio book recommendations a few weeks ago, several of you suggested that memoirs work well on audio, and Dawn recommended Susan Jane Gilman’s newer memoir Undress...
A few weeks ago, George Palmer of 5ft Shelf contacted me to tell me about this project, inspired by Dr. Charles Eliot’s claim that one could achieve a liberal arts education by reading for fifteen minutes per day from a collection of books that could...
Well, it’s not exactly the quietest Sunday morning here in Book Lady Land (just in case you were wondering why I’m even out of bed at 9:30am). The hound was wide awake at 7:30 and refused to leave Bob and me alone. So we got up, made coffee and...
