Category Archives: book reviews

Where to find my book reviews if Amazon dumps me

Taking a break today, sort of, from writing about memoirs to address the recent controversy with Amazon book reviews. You may have heard Amazon is cracking down on “promotional” reviews, which include reviews by authors’ family members, fellow genre writers … Continue reading

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We Hope You Like This Song: Healing from a death

Soon after my mother died, I caught Bree Housley at Left Bank Books talking about her memoir,  We Hope You Like This Song. The subtitle is “an overly honest story about friendship, death, and mix tapes”. The writeups said the … Continue reading

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Sonia Marsh tells all about paradise in Freeways to Flip-Flops memoir

Have you ever dreamed of getting away from it all? Leaving the rat race, retiring somewhere where the breeze is gentle off the ocean and time stands still? Sonia Marsh did it. She and her husband plucked up their boys … Continue reading

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