by Carol Jane Morrison | Dec 19, 2017 | Book Reviews
“Anything Is Possible” by Elizabeth Strout I’ve been smitten by Elizabeth Strout since I read OLIVE KITTEREDGE, and even more enamored since taking a class from her a few years ago. The woman can write. Her characters are expertly drawn as are the...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Nov 15, 2017 | Book Reviews
“Nothing’s for Nothing: Transformation through Trauma” by Rebekah Demirel Rebekah Demirel grew up in circumstances that could have flattened or destroyed her. But they didn’t. She not only survived, she flourished. Rebekah’s...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Oct 24, 2017 | Book Reviews
“Dispatches From Pluto” by Richard Grant Ed (my Seattle native husband who lived in Mississippi for fifteen years), has long insisted that my native deep South is a foreign country. I’ve told him no it is not either, you better stop saying that, you...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Sep 18, 2017 | Book Reviews
“Commonwealth” by Ann Patchett After reading memoir for awhile, I was hungry for a novel, and COMMONWEALTH was on my recommended Kindle list. I bought it on impulse. It didn’t take long to see I’d spend a lot of time figuring out (or being...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Aug 17, 2017 | Book Reviews
“Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body” by Roxane Gay Roxane Gay used to scare me. I admired her and thought she was a fine writer, but found her criticisms of authors and literary works scathing. I imagined her a fierce opponent to cultural appropriation, and, as...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Jul 18, 2017 | Book Reviews
“She Got Up Off the Couch” by Haven Kimmel I bought this book because the author, whom I follow on Facebook, announced that it was on sale, and I’d read A GIRL CALLED ZIPPY by the same author and liked it a good bit, and I found the title, SHE GOT UP...
