“I’m really friendly but not quite tame.” I’ve wanted to read Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths & Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes for a bit, I just never got around to it. As someone who has been drawn to reoccurring archetypes in legend and lores throughout the world (and someoneContinue reading “WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES – Clarissa Pinkola Estes”
Tag Archives: Nonfiction
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANNAH CRAFTS – Gregg Hecimovich
Nearly twenty decades now, I fancied myself a wannabe or soon-to-be scholar, and while my focus centered on South African literature, I liked to apply postcolonial theories and the concept of “the empire writes back” to African American literature and the use of canonical works in carving out stories. I was also a person whoContinue reading “THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANNAH CRAFTS – Gregg Hecimovich”
COUNTING THE COST – Jill Duggar
While doing my latest book nook, I listened to Counting the Cost, Jill Duggar’s 2023 memoir that was written with her husband, Derick Dillard, and Craig Borlase. I had watched the Duggars with a bit of morbid fascination throughout the years, much like most reality TV, and was even more captivated when the religious houseContinue reading “COUNTING THE COST – Jill Duggar”
HOW TO SAY BABYLON – Safiya Sinclair
“With echoes of Educated” is not a selling point for me; I, in a very unpopular opinion, found that book overhyped with a narrator I neither trusted nor liked. Other than some fuzzy timelines and a focus on the power of learning, I’m pleased to say Safiya Sinclair’s How to Say Babylon (Simon & SchusterContinue reading “HOW TO SAY BABYLON – Safiya Sinclair”
SPARE – Prince Harry
When I was a sophomore in high school, I watched two young boys walk behind their mother’s coffin. Theirs was a posh world of opulence, royalty and history. These were young princes, the heir and the spare, to the Crown that had dominated the world, but in that moment, they were two brothers struggling withContinue reading “SPARE – Prince Harry”
BOMB SHELTER – Mary Laura Philpott
I purchased this for the cover. I know it. I could say otherwise, but the cover of Mary Laura Philpott’s Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives (Atria 2022) had me hit “select” without further consideration. I knew it was a collection of nonfiction, slice of life essays and that Philpott was known for herContinue reading “BOMB SHELTER – Mary Laura Philpott”
A Girl Named Tommi 