Posts tagged with ‘Women’s Issues’
May 20, 2013
A YOGA TEACHER, BUDDHIST practitioner shares thoughts for women on making peace with body and mind. Candid!
Grade: B MINUS
MAY I BE HAPPY: A MEMOIR OF LOVE, YOGA, AND CHANGING MY MIND
Dutton
2013
Tags: B Minus Reviews, Health, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Women's Issues, Yoga
March 11, 2013
PLAYFUL, ABSORBING DISQUISITION on women as chefs, with lots of interviews, lots of chefs’ perspectives.
Grade: B PLUS
SKIRT STEAK: WOMEN CHEFS ON STANDING THE HEAT AND STAYING IN THE KITCHEN
Chronicle Books
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Food Writing, Non-Fiction, Women's Issues
March 7, 2013
A HORRIFYING CHILDHOOD OF desperate poverty and abuse in 1950s Dublin, vividly recalled. Harsh, compelling.
Grade: B PLUS
MA, HE SOLD ME FOR A FEW CIGARETTES: A MEMOIR OF DUBLIN IN THE 1950S
Seven Stories Press
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Dublin, Ireland, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Women's Issues
February 13, 2013
ENGAGING BIOGRAPHY OF architect, artist, antiquarian Sarah Losh, whose 1840s church in Wreay still delights.
Grade: B PLUS
THE PINECONE: THE STORY OF SARAH LOSH, FORGOTTEN ROMANTIC HEROINE---ANTIQUARIAN, ARCHITECT, AND VISIONARY
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2013
Tags: Architecture, Art History, B Plus Reviews, Biography, England, History, Non-Fiction, Visual Arts, Women's Issues
January 25, 2013
ABSORBING BIOGRAPHY OF Oscar Wilde’s wife Constance reveals her as fascinating and talented in her own right.
Grade: B PLUS
CONSTANCE: THE TRAGIC AND SCANDALOUS LIFE OF MRS. OSCAR WILDE
Pegasus
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, Non-Fiction, Women's Issues
January 19, 2013
INSPIRING TRUE STORY of a young prodigy and her chess coach, both from one of Uganda’s most impoverished slums.
Grade: SOLID B
THE QUEEN OF KATWE: A STORY OF LIFE, CHESS, AND ONE EXTRAORDINARY GIRL'S DREAM OF BECOMING A GRANDMASTER
Scribner
2012
Tags: Africa, Biography, Chess, Children, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Uganda, Women's Issues
December 23, 2012
I don’t review poetry here, but I cannot help taking a minute to rave about the new collection of poems by the late, great Lucille Clifton. The poems are beautifully curated, the book design is clear and readable, and the foreword by Toni Morrison was touching in its recognition of Clifton’s gifts. Do think about buying this if you’re a poetry fan—or maybe even if you aren’t! Clifton was a strong and distinctive voice, and the power of her work cannot be denied.
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LUCILLE CLIFTON, 1965-2010
BOA Editions
2012
Tags: African American Writers, Black Writers, Poetry, Women's Issues
A MOTHER/DAUGHTER relationship, fractured by addiction and depression, is healed by feminism and by coming out.
Grade: SOLID B
RIDING FURY HOME: A MEMOIR
Seal Press
2012
Tags: Addiction and Recovery, LGBTQ Interest, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Women's Issues
November 27, 2012
ALISON BECHDEL IS SIMPLY a national treasure! Her latest memoir in graphic novel form is thoughtful and wise.
Grade: A MINUS
ARE YOU MY MOTHER? A COMIC DRAMA
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Graphic Novels, LGBTQ Interest, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Women's Issues
July 19, 2012
NOVELIST JEANETTE WINTERSON’S lyrical memoir testifies to her faith in love despite her grueling childhood.
Grade: SOLID A
WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL?
Grove Press
2012
Tags: LGBTQ Interest, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid A Reviews, Women's Issues