Overall, the writing is superb and the story has many interesting moments, but the focus on Sula and Nel takes away from much of the rich places Morrison could have gone.
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Fat Girl, Terrestrial #readwomen #bookreview @FCtwo
Stories are the only way we can make that connection to a spiritual realm…
Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher #20BooksofSummer #LGBT @KensingtonBooks #ReadWomen
“But my grades — my brains –” Bobby struggled to express herself. “A teacher has to be smart.”
Only Ever Yours #bookreview #readwomen #YAlit
The characters in Only Ever Yours are terribly familiar. If you’ve ever been a devoted fan of the Sweet Valley Twins books like I was, you’ll remember the cast…
Meet the Writer: Missy Wilkinson
…but my mom said we couldn’t keep her. So I wrote a moving, construction-paper saga of a girl and her puppy.
Fun Home
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a graphic novel memoir by Alison Bechdel, of “Bechdel Test” fame (an idea that came from Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes… Read more “Fun Home”
Furiously Happy
Last week, I reviewed Jenny Lawson’s first memoir, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir). Since then, my number of visitors to Grab the Lapels has… Read more “Furiously Happy”
Gag
Gag by Melissa Unger Pages: 141 Publisher: Roundfire Books Released: 2014 Gag starts out with a simple idea: Peter, a native of Brooklyn, stopped eating 15 years… Read more “Gag”
Of Marriageable Age
Of Marriageable Age is a saga (546 pages) by Guyanese author Sharon Maas. The book was originally published by Harper Collins in 2000, but Maas has re-released… Read more “Of Marriageable Age”
Scattershot
Scattershot: Collected Fictions, by Amy L. Eggert, was released this past March from the new indie publisher, Lit Fest Press. Scattershot clocks in at 112 pages–14 pieces in all–which gives you an… Read more “Scattershot”
