Oh, that’s a hard one for a book dragon. lol If I had to narrow it down, I would say “Idaho’s Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History” by L.E. Bragg and “Fuzzwiggs: the Switcheroo” by Amy Maren Rice. An odd pair at first glance, I ...
Whatever her motives though, she is adamant that no doctor will ever be called, so the young expectant mothers can only rely on each other. This gives the story a claustrophobic and oppressive vibe, where among the vivid descriptions of the encroaching forest, nothing feels entirely safe. The...
The academic book that blew my thinking open this year wasDecolonial Feminist Research: Haunting, Rememory and Mothersby Jeong-eun Rhee. The book is dense and personal and centers “rememory” from Toni Morrisson’sBelovedasmethod. An accessible and loving text, Alexis Pauline Gumb’sUndrowned:Bla...
A posse had caught up with the man with the scarred eyebrow three days later. They hung him on the spot and left him swinging. When April found out, she rode the twenty miles to the place alone and shot five holes through the body. It hadn’t helped. The townspeople attended the buri...
Audiobook Comments: I listened to this whole book on audio and totally loved it. The Mothers’ sections were some of my favorite from her. Adenrele Ojo’s performance is vibrant and engaging, entertaining and funny and the perfect complement to Brit Bennett’s incredible literary voice. ...
The family was marvelously fecund, however, and one day, Iris prayed, they would reach a size where they had to forbid the mothers from inviting anyone outside of family. “There just aren’t enough seats,” she could hear herself saying. Unfortunately, she could also hear her mother askin...
MARGARET BRENNAN: You argue, people need to understand that Palestinian mothers love their children just as much as Israeli mothers. Why do you feel like that needed to be said? QUEEN RANIA: Well, because, you know, for decades the dehumanization of Palestinians has been an intentional approa...
No fewer than three Harry-obsessed friends urged me to read The Idea of You.“Prepare your heart,” one warned. I failed to, staying up past 2 a.m. on a school night, listening to the audiobook (read by Lee, whose voice is appropriately sultry). After finishing it, bereft, I called...
We had three hours to wait so we scouted the lunch options- there were a lot! Sydney “Gastronomy” Airport included meat pies, something called a jaffle, lots of sandwiches and so much more. There was a KFC and a McDonalds but we haven’t been away from the US long enough yet to ...
Interestingly, I had also written the first three chapters of Ring of Rosin back then. While it has evolved into a very different book from what I envisioned so long ago, the inspiration from those first three chapters is intact and drives the plot line. Once I started work on Ring of ...