It is best, when writing a book review of The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, to be an active reader of the book.
How to Write a Review of the Shell Game: A REVIEW of The Shell Game, edited by Kim Adrian
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: A Beautiful and Terrible Thing by Jen Waite
As the title states, what a beautiful and terrible book!
Review: An American (Homeless) in Paris by Chris Ames
Everybody, sometimes, wants to give the middle finger to society and just be left alone. I understand…
Review: Circadian by Chelsey Clammer
Chelsey Clammer … uses experimental lyric essay forms to explore loss, trauma, and grief…
Review: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay holds nothing back, and you have to appreciate her stark honesty.
Review: Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
Girl is a tell-it-like-it-is books of the “lies” about her life that Hollis had to face and the ways she overcame them.
Review: Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home by Lara Lillibridge
Complicated is an apt description of the family relationships that Lillibridge chronicles in her book.
Review: Maps Are Lines We Draw: A Road Trip through Haiti by Allison Coffelt
Coffelt’s slim, 137-page volume tells the story of her trip to Haiti – a journey ten years in the making.
Review: The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
What Vanasco does in her book is way more compelling than filling in what she doesn’t know: she experiments with form by shattering the story into shards…
Review: Theology of My Life by John Frame
Five-decade seminary professor John Frame’s Theology of My Life (Cascade Books, 2017) is a self-proclaimed theological and apologetic memoir.
