Murphy’s details of farm life paint the reader a vibrant picture, so real that one may question whether or not to buy a goat…
Review: Dirty Chick: Adventures of an Unlikely Farmer by Antonia Murphy
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Review: The Unspeakable by Meghan Daum
Writer Meghan Daum … suspects her own book will be equally loved and hated. The Unspeakable contains 10 personal essays on a variety of topics from dogs to Joni Mitchell.
Review: What I Know For Sure (audio) by Oprah Winfrey
While promoting the movie Beloved in 1998, Oprah was interviewed by Gene Siskel. And the (now-late) film critic stumped her.
Review: Under Magnolia by Frances Mayes
“One reason I felt immediately at home in Tuscany was that certain strong currents of life reminded me of the South.”
Review: Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
“They are my world. How do I make them dead?” This is Sonali Deraniyagala’s thought after losing her husband Steve, their two sons, and her parents to a tsunami.
Review: January First by Michael Schofield
January, or “Jani,” was born a genius; at three years old, she could read and calculate mathematics in her head. But if she didn’t receive constant mental stimulation, she could succumb to violent meltdowns.
Review: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
“That perhaps being amidst the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant I too could be undesecrated, regardless of what I’d lost or what had been taken from me, regardless of the regrettable things I’d done to others or myself or the regrettable things that had been done to me. Of all the things I’d been…
Review: The Home for the Friendless, Betty Auchard
I initially judged The Home for the Friendless by its cover and expected a story like that of Annie. I pictured the Home for the Friendless as an orphanage, and I thought I would be reading about all of the children living there. However, I soon discovered that the facility was merely a temporary home for author Betty Auchard and her two younger siblings and was written about as a small memory intertwined into hundreds of memories. I never expected to learn so much about a poor girl’s faith in her family as well as rich historical details about the war and the Great Depression.
