When I was asked to review The Beauty Experiment: How I Skipped Lipstick, Ditched Fashion, Faced the World without Concealer, and Learned to Love the Real Me by Phoebe Baker Hyde, I read about some of …
A Lady in France and the Magic of Memoir
I used to think that memoir was a less impressive cousin to fiction. Wasn't it sort of a cop out to write about your own life? Where's the creativity in that? The memoirs that I did read I found often …
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Can We Ever Let Go of Our Childhoods? A Review of “Mother Daughter Me”
There are some books that unexpectedly touch us. We are moved, and then we move on. There are others that knock us over, striking nerves that we didn't even know that we had. For me, Mother …
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Battles With Prematurity and Myths of Perfection: A Review of Ready for Air
To me, my son's birth was not just a "good birth." The medical community thinks of births as either "good" or not good based on the physical health of the mother and the baby. Yes, my son was …
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The Madness of College Admissions Revealed: Early Decision by Lacy Crawford
It's rare that a book touches me from so many angles, evokes so many memories of the young person that I once was, the career paths that I have chosen, and the experiences that made me pause …
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