Gisèle Pelicot is the French woman whose husband of 50 years spent the last decade drugging and raping her and inviting strangers to repeatedly do the same while he recorded it. All of which she recounts in her memoir A Hymn to Life because this woman, who survived years of degradation and brutality without any memory of it, had the strength to confront it in graphic detail via ... Read More...
You With the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate
In her memoir, You with the Sad Eyes, Christina Applegate recounts the highs and lows of her life, beginning with a chaotic childhood. From the time she was five years old, she knew she wanted to perform. Dance was her first love, offering her the freedom to express herself through movement, and her mother always made sure she was enrolled in classes. Unfortunately, her ... Read More...
Family of Spies
Here we are nearing the end of March and this is my first nonfiction review. That’s a pretty good summation of my 2026 nonfiction reading so far. I’m staying as far away from reality as possible. However, when I saw Family of Spies by Christine Kuehn at the library it looked intriguing enough that I picked it up. Once home, I jumped in and read the book straight ... Read More...
Workhorse: A Novel
Clo Harmon is a 25-year-old assistant at a fashion magazine. She’s a workhorse—eager, bright, hardworking, but with no fashion pedigree. Meaning she will never achieve her dream of being an editor because those jobs only go to the show horses—wealthy, skinny girls with Ivy League degrees and all the right connections. What’s an ambitious, but unconnected woman to do? In ... Read More...
Ask Not by Maureen Callahan
Reams of paper have been expended in dissecting the Kennedys in all their tragedy and fame. Now, author Maureen Callahan joins the fray with a knockout punch in Ask Not. The book’s subtitle is The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed, but in case Callahan’s being too subtle this is a scathing exposé about the Kennedy men and how their extraordinarily entitled beliefs about ... Read More...
Next Level by Stacy Sims
In 2025 more than 1 BILLION women worldwide will be experiencing menopause. How’s that for a book review opening? That means all of its stages whether it’s peri, menopause, or post. For author Stacy Sims this is something that’s been ignored for far too long and that she’s been researching for decades. She’s got her PhD in physiology as well as in nutrition and she’s published ... Read More...
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