Book Review
Tolerant
by Aimee Jodoin
In C. J. Sparrow’s stunning fantasy novel "Tolerant", a servant subverts her culture’s oppressive values, going to great lengths to protect those she loves. Obeying her late older sister’s command to defect rather than fail her...
Book Review
Zen for Kids
by Aimee Jodoin
Laura Burges’s soothing children’s guide to Buddhist meditation, "Zen for Kids", shares how Zen practices can improve lives. Beginning with Siddhartha Gautama’s biography, this introduction to Zen Buddhism includes Asian folktales,...
Book Review
The Good Daughter Syndrome
by Aimee Jodoin
"The Good Daughter Syndrome" is a thorough, conversational self-help book about avoiding the unconscious traps that mothers set up when they see their daughters as reflections of themselves. Psychotherapist Katherine Fabrizio’s...
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The Narrator
by Aimee Jodoin
"The Narrator" is an absorbing science fiction novel in which intelligent people are pushed to their emotional limits while investigating their tech industry employer’s corruption. In Babak Hodjat’s pensive science fiction novel "The...
Book Review
By the Rivers of Babylon
by Aimee Jodoin
A young couple inherits a house on a romantic Southern island in Mary Glickman’s stunning literary Southern Gothic novel turned murder mystery "By the Rivers of Babylon". Given its “mist over the marsh, trees that look to harbor...
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A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
by Aimee Jodoin
Kelly Sullivan Walden’s self-help book "A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste" models empathy and self-compassion through self-reflection. Walden proposes approaching tumultuous moments by OGLEing them, or: contemplating what is...
Book Review
Artemis Sparke and the Sound Seekers Brigade
by Aimee Jodoin
A budding ecologist finds her voice in Kimberly Behre Kenna’s delightful novel "Artemis Sparke and the Sound Seekers Brigade". When twelve-year-old nature-loving Artemis finds BB pellets in her beloved salt marsh, she is determined to...
Book Review
Building Bridges
by Aimee Jodoin
Three determined friends encourage and support each other through their community fundraising efforts in the uplifting picture book "Building Bridges". In Melissa Stoller, Callie Metler, and Shirin Rahman’s picture book "Building...