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pennyalexlane
May 9, 20231 min read
Beautiful fiction
I love books that force you to ponder and question...and decide big things, like what kind of love is "real" love, what is the cost of...
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pennyalexlane
May 4, 20232 min read
I love independent bookstores even more for supporting new writers!
Meet the Godmother of San Francisco’s Independent Booksellers by Maryann Jones Thompson Published Apr. 23, 2023 When Barnes & Noble...
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pennyalexlane
May 3, 20231 min read
Why this book means so much to so many women...
"To us, Margaret Simon wasn’t a character, she was a proxy — for the girl who stuffed socks in her bra, who felt uncomfortable in her own...
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pennyalexlane
May 2, 20232 min read
My latest read was a hard pill to swallow...
I read this book because I am saddened by the poverty I see and read about; the tent cities I pass on the freeways, the ragged looking...
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pennyalexlane
Apr 20, 20231 min read
White women in rural America are dying. This memoir examines why.
Memoirs are real life stories that broaden our view of the world...and hopefully make us more aware, symathetic, and understanding of the...
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pennyalexlane
Apr 10, 20231 min read
A fantastic review for Redeemed, A Memoir of a Stolen Childhood:
"With unflinching honesty and raw vulnerability, this memoir offers a powerful message of hope and healing. The author's journey from...
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pennyalexlane
Apr 4, 20231 min read
A new title for the Hungarian Girl...
Redeemed, A story of a Lost Childhood Writing the book was the easy part-coming up with all the details to make it a successful...
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pennyalexlane
Mar 23, 20231 min read
An important Memoir
Memoirs like “Girl, Interrupt” by Susanna Kaysen uncover important perceptions, for example how women are often labeled as something less...
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pennyalexlane
Mar 20, 20232 min read
War is felt for generations.
The effects of the war in Ukraine will not be over when the last shot is fired, or a peace treaty signed. It will linger, seen and...
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pennyalexlane
Mar 16, 20231 min read
Author Rebecca Woolf reviewed my book!
I am grateful to Rebecca Woolf, columnist, blogger and author of the memoir "All of This" for taking the time to review my upcoming...
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pennyalexlane
Mar 14, 20232 min read
I share something with Oprah: "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."
‘Hi, This Is Oprah Winfrey. I Read Your Novel and Loved It So Much.’ Ann Napolitano (pictured) toiled in obscurity for years. Novels went...
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pennyalexlane
Mar 13, 20231 min read
Our memoirs are women talking.
I have been warned by friends that Sarah Polley’s film Women Talking may hit close to home. I’d like to see the film. I am encouraged...
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pennyalexlane
Mar 9, 20231 min read
Memoirs tell important stories.
Harriet Jacobs, whose memoir was the first book-length autobiography written by a formerly enslaved African American woman, died in...
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pennyalexlane
Mar 8, 20232 min read
Surprise benefits of writing a memoir
I began writing my memoir because it was something I had always wanted to do, and I was running out of excuses not to. I didn't write it...
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pennyalexlane
Mar 7, 20232 min read
Opening the door for others starts with yourself
“When you open a door for yourself, you sometimes open a door for others.” We need be to true to our own inner voice- what we know to be...
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pennyalexlane
Jan 30, 20231 min read
My First Review of my upcoming memoir
Deep gratitude to John J. Geoghegan, bestselling author of HEAR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW, Operation Storm, and When Giants Ruled The Sky for...
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pennyalexlane
Jan 23, 20233 min read
From Christian cult to Jewish Temple: Finding home.
I might never understand why or even how I left one abusive situation, only to blindly join another. Maybe the key is that I was blind,...
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pennyalexlane
Dec 1, 20222 min read
My inheritance
When I struggle with less than generous thoughts about others, I often wonder where these thoughts come from. That is not like me, I say...
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pennyalexlane
Nov 8, 20221 min read
Family secrets...
I used to think I was the family secret. The annoyance in the room that everyone tried their best to ignore to keep the party bright. The...
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pennyalexlane
Nov 3, 20221 min read
Sometimes a person survives...
What does surviving trauma mean? Does it mean simply that we lived past it and came out alive? Does it mean because we lived, and perhaps...
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