Category Archives: book talk

On a Roll with Katie and Disablity Pride Month

Posted on July 17, 2022 by moonbridgebooks

July is Disability Pride Month and USA Today appropriately had an article called “10 inspiring self-help books about illness and disability.” It’s impossible for people without difficult, chronic health issues to understand what it’s like to live with one or … Continue reading →

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Family History in Truth or Fiction

Posted on March 15, 2021 by moonbridgebooks

Back in May 2017 I posted “Writing the Immigrant Story in Truth or Fiction” about Amy Cohen and her family history novel Pacific Street based on her immigrant ancestors’ stories. She explained why she decided to write her family history … Continue reading →

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Love and War in a British Indian Army WWII Memoir

Posted on June 21, 2020 by moonbridgebooks

Uma Eachempati ’s childhood memories of life in South India sound delightful, except this was during WWII and her father, who was a doctor and a major in the British Indian Army, was captured and held prisoner by the Japanese … Continue reading →

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