by Admin | Nov 14, 2019 | creativity, Literature, Memoir, Uncategorized
Reviewed By Janet Levine Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir Image of Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir Author(s): Deirdre Bair Release Date: November 12, 2019 Publisher/Imprint: Nan A. Talese Pages:...
by Admin | Nov 14, 2019 | Baboon Camp, Coming-of-age, family, Memoir, Okavango Delta, Uncategorized, young adults
Reviewed By Janet Levine Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs Image of Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs Author: Keena Roberts Release Date: November 12, 2019 Publisher/Imprint: Grand Central Publishing...
by Admin | Aug 3, 2016 | apartheid, Children, Conflagration, mind structure, reconciliation, teaching tales, Uncategorized, young adults
MY HEARTFELT APPEAL DIRECTED TO REPUBLICAN LEADERS TO DITCH DRUMPF. LET’S PUT OUR COUNTRY BACK ON A PATH OF SANITY. HE IS AMERICA’S GREATEST FAILURE. For most of my adult life I’ve been an educator, as well as a freelance journalist and an author, an international...
by Admin | Apr 9, 2016 | Biography, creativity, family, Memoir, non-fiction, Parenting, reconciliation, Uncategorized
The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for his Mother Reviewed by: Janet Levine “Rublack creates an astute and informative study of witchcraft and witch trials.” The Astronomer and The Witch by Ulinka Rublack at first glance may appear to be a...
by Admin | Mar 29, 2016 | family, fiction, historical fiction, human rights, Memoir, Uncategorized
Reviewer: Janet Levine “The novel is a quick, compulsive read but leaves much untold; however, this is fiction and not comprehensive biography.” Terrible Virtue by Ellen Feldman is fictional autobiography (told almost exclusively in an imagined first-person narrative...
by Admin | Feb 25, 2016 | family, garden, gardening, Memoir, non-fiction, Uncategorized
Reviewed by: Janet Levine “More Was Lost is a memoir of two parts; the first reads like a fairy tale and the second like a nightmare.” More Was Lost is the reissue of a 1946 memoir by Eleanor Perényi, a well known New York figure in literary circles. She was an editor...