women’s literature
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Thank you NetGalley and Harper Muse for the ARC of Laura Resau’s “The River Muse.” It is much appreciated! In “The River Muse,” Laura Resau paints a gorgeous canvas of love, life, resilience, and courage, all dusted with a touch of magic. Callie and her daughter escape an abusive man and find refuge in a…
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Thank you NetGalley and W. W. Norton & Company for the ARC of Deborah Lutz’s “This Dark Night.” There have been many biographies of the Brontes and studies written about their books. Because of this, it’s very easy for a new book to come across as unoriginal. This is not the case with Deborah Lutz’s…
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Thank you NetGalley and University of Iowa Press for the ARC of “Full-Time Mammal” by Rennie Ament. This is a great collection of free verse poetry. Rennie Ament writes in a direct, take-charge voice that keeps readers engaged and wanting to know what she will say next. I really like the poem “Now” at the…
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‘We are sending you, dear flowers, Forth alone to die, Where your gentle sisters may not weep O’er the cold graves where you lie; But you go to bring them fadeless life In the bright homes where they dwell, And you softly smile that ‘t is so, As we sadly sing farewell. O plead with…
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I first read Bhanu Kapil’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers in college and I was absolutely enthralled. This was poetry I had never seen before, formless and unstructured. It struck me in a way I couldn’t explain, and changed how I wrote poetry. A month from now. A week from now. Tomorrow. When he goes.…
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As usual, I have managed to read faster than I write, and I have fallen behind on my NetGalley reviews. Here is a handful for you to peruse and see if any appeal to you. More are to come over the next few days! *** Traversal by Maria Popova I have been a fan of…
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A huge thank you to NetGalley and Histria Books for the review copy of B. K. O’Connor’s beautiful book “Eve.” It is very appreciated! I initially rated this book four stars on Goodreads, but I am revising that to a full five; this book was so good it deserves all of the stars. Some years…
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Thank you very much NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for the ARC of Amanda Lovelace’s newest collection “the witch doesn’t drown in this one”! Amanda Lovelace has done it again (as if that is a surprise): she has plumbed the deepest parts of her heart and shared her pain, her anger, her hope, and her…
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Emily Hauser’s brilliant book “Penelope’s Bones” has a place of note on the shelf beside my copies of Natalie Haynes’ “Pandora’s Jar” and Divine Might.” Hauser has presented her readers with a detailed study of figures from Homer’s works that hover in the background of his heroes’ lives: the women of legend. The women not…
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Foreign Fruit by Katie Goh is an outstanding book. I was expecting a microhistory about oranges, or citrus fruit as a whole; I was not expecting an incredibly well-researched social history about culture, society, belonging, searching for one’s place in the world, biases, acceptance, food cultivation, and environmentalism (among other topics). Goh’s book takes readers…
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