Book review: Kim Lock The Other Side of Beautiful, HQ Fiction, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises, Australia, 2021. The preface to Kim Lock’s novel explains her preference for the term ‘nervous breakdown’ to describe depression in a way that anticipates the sufferer’s capacity to achieve a positive outcome: a ‘break through’. Mercy Blain accomplishes thisContinue reading “Week beginning 5th May 2021”
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Week beginning 27th April 2021
This week’s book reviews: Scott Ryan’s Moonlighting An Oral History is an absolute delight. The first point to be made is pedestrian, but so important in a book that is, in Ryan’s words ‘a scholarly look’. I would also like to suggest that this book is so much fun (while scholarly) that it is notContinue reading “Week beginning 27th April 2021”
Week beginning 21st April 2021
Book reviews this week are Scourge of Henry V111 The Life of Marie De Guise, Melanie Clegg; and The Good Wife of Bath : A (Mostly) True Story, Karen Brooks – see Books: Reviews for the full reviews. Both books were provided to me by NetGalley for review. As I finished the biography of aContinue reading “Week beginning 21st April 2021”
Week beginning 14th April
Book Reviews: this week several novels by women writers are reviewed. Some I rate poorly but decided that they are worth including as a source. I begin with a novel I have given a positive rating. C.L. Taylor, Her Last Holiday, AVON HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2021 C.L. Taylor brings together memorable characters; a satisfying plot;Continue reading “Week beginning 14th April”
Week beginning 7th April 2021
Book Reviews: added this week are the following books, reviewed for NetGalley, and previously published on Good Reads, Twitter and Linked In. They are a departure from the books reviewed for Women’s History Month, although there will be more reviews relevant to the principles of that month throughout the year. Angela Youngman, The Dark SideContinue reading “Week beginning 7th April 2021”
Week beginning 31 March 2021
Book Reviews: Jillian Cantor Half Life Simon&Schuster, 2021, first published 2011 by Headline Publishing Group. Jillian Cantor’s novel is described by Marie Benedict, author of The Other Einstein as a ‘thoughtful, compelling story [which] delves into issues faced by modern women , while inviting readers to ruminate on their own life choices and the dominoContinue reading “Week beginning 31 March 2021”
Week beginning 24th March 2021
Book Reviews: Catherine McCormack, Women In the Picture Women, Art and the Power of Looking, Icon Books Ltd, London, 2021. McCormack provides a well researched and powerful analysis of revered paintings and sculptures that highlights the anti- woman approach of so much art in galleries around the world. Her feminist approach is a valuable contributionContinue reading “Week beginning 24th March 2021”
Week beginning 17th March 2021
Book Reviews: Julia Cooke, Come Fly The World, The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. Women’s History Month Women’s March 4 Women Rally Canberra 15 March Thousands of people, predominantly women, but with plenty of men, children and dogs also in attendance, rallied at Parliament House, Canberra. TheContinue reading “Week beginning 17th March 2021”
Week beginning 10 March 2021
Women’s History Month Book Reviews: Liz Hodgkinson, The Women Who Transformed Journalism, First published by Revel Barker Publishing, 2008, this publication, Lume Books, 2018. Commentary: books relevant to Women’s History Month (see Book Reviews) Let fiction have a say: British Women Fight for the Vote in Stand We at Last and Things a Bright GirlContinue reading “Week beginning 10 March 2021”
Week beginning 3 March 2021
Book Review: Women’s Liberation! Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can, Edited by Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore, Library of America, 16 February 2021. Thank you to Net Galley for this copy for review. With Women’s History Month being celebrated in March, this collection seems the most relevant with which to beginContinue reading “Week beginning 3 March 2021”
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