Hunger A Memoir of (My) Body


Book Reviews

According to my electronic dictionary, hunger means a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat or a strong desire or craving.  I must say that Roxane Gay’s memoir Hunger A Memoir of (My) Body was named appropriately.  She has a hunger but so did I as a reader […]

August 17, 2017

#ReadSoulLit Photo Challenge – Day 16


Bookish Stuff

Day 16 – As Good as Chocolate:   Today’s recommendation is the eclectic Sassafrass, Cypress, & Indigo by Ntozake Shange….. “Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo is the story of three “colored girls,” three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina: Sassafrass, the oldest, a poet and a weaver like her mother, gone north to college, […]

February 16, 2015

The French Lieutenant's Woman


Book Reviews

I was really excited when this novel wound up on the final list of books we would be reading this school year with my book club.  It’s been on my TBR for ages…  I can say I’m a real fan of John Fowles having read and loved both The Magus and The Collector.  I should have known […]

September 25, 2013