Book Review
Blood and Lightning
Dustin Kiskaddon’s memoir "Blood and Lightning" details the ins and outs of working in a tattoo shop. The book covers every facet of being a tattoo artist, including the intimacy of the relationship between a tattooer and their client...
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The Lost Art of Silence
Sarah Anderson’s spiritual text "The Lost Art of Silence" explores the power of silence throughout history as seen in art, literature, nature, and war. Covering the nooks and crannies of human history, the book tells the tales of...
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A Light in the Dark
Kathy Kleiner Rubin’s earnest memoir "A Light in the Dark" spans three brushes with death. As a child, Rubin had lupus and was isolated until high school—the first death sentence she avoided. In college, she and her roommate survived...
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Nervosa
Hayley Gold’s beautiful graphic memoir "Nervosa" covers the artist’s life through her eating disorder. When Gold was ten, she went to get ice cream with her father while he ranted about her mother. Her cholesterol was high, some...
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Women Without Kids
Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, Ruby Warrington’s "Women Without Kids" concerns the reality of being childless today. After years of fielding the question of when she’d have kids, Warrington started digging into the social...
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Climate Champions
Rachel Sarah’s "Climate Champions" profiles fifteen women who are fighting against climate change from every avenue of science activism. Covering journalists, professors, conservation biologists, and researchers—many of them from...
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Living with Mr. Fahrenheit
Lisa Beecher’s moving memoir "Living with Mr. Fahrenheit" concerns the twenty years she spent as a caregiver for her husband. Police officer Lisa Beecher’s heartbreaking memoir "Living with Mr. Fahrenheit" is about how her marriage...
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Survive Your Child's Suicide
Peggy Green’s book Survive Your Child’s Suicide takes on self-help and grief from a delicate, informative place. Grief coach Peggy Green’s self-help book Survive Your Child’s Suicide is a straightforward and gentle guide to...