Book Review
Memory, Memory, Go Away
by Mari Carlson
Twisted motives related to personal vengeance run beneath a supposedly therapeutic program in the musing thriller "Memory, Memory, Go Away". Christopher W. Selna’s psychological thriller "Memory, Memory, Go Away" centers a procedure...
Book Review
An Unexpected Normal
by Mari Carlson
"An Unexpected Normal" is a poignant memoir about how a family handled the challenges of their youngest’s disabilities. Rita T. Angelini’s heartrending memoir "An Unexpected Normal" is about parenting a child with severe...
Book Review
3 Songs
by Mari Carlson
"3 Songs" is a musing memoir–cum–cultural analysis through music. Randy Gibbons’s autobiographical history of three jazz standards, "3 Songs", relates the songs to his own story, to their place in American history, and to each...
Book Review
Swaddled
by Mari Carlson
The intimate essays in "Swaddled" aim to support mothers as people outside of their children. In Elizabeth Sarah Cassidy’s confessional essay collection "Swaddled", mothers discuss how becoming a parent changed them. When Cassidy’s...
Book Review
Her One Regret
by Mari Carlson
Donna Freitas’s psychological thriller "Her One Regret" is about a missing mother and regretting motherhood. Lucy disappears from a parking lot, leaving her baby behind. Her best friend, Michelle, thinks she was kidnapped. But then...
Book Review
Miami Outlaw
by Mari Carlson
"Miami Outlaw" is a ranging account of countercultural activities within the criminal underworld. Scott Sherouse’s thorough memoir "Miami Outlaw" covers the exploits of a Florida drug-running inner circle. Tying Sherouse’s...
Book Review
People Making Danger: Saturday Matinees
by Mari Carlson
Comedy is derived from badly dealt hands in the dramatic short story collection People Making Danger. An assisted suicide and other realistic magic tricks fill Adam Fike’s farcical short story collection People Making Danger. In “The...
Book Review
Caring with Dignity
by Mari Carlson
Defining incontinence in concise terms alongside guidance for recognizing the signs of the problem, "Caring with Dignity" is a straightforward medical reference text. Michele Mongillo’s caregiver’s resource "Caring with Dignity"...
