Beautiful, lyrical prose that makes your heart hurt as the lives and loves of three generations of Irish women unfold, full of loss,...

From kindergarten to high school, I got to be the mother I always wanted to have - to my son. While his high school graduation is a...

Ann Napolitano's wonderful "Hello Beautiful" was so rich, I had to have more. I picked up "Dear Edward," a beautiful tragedy rife with...

Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues that impact women’s lives. Women We Buried, Women...

A good description from Connie Wang in her new memoir, "Oh My Mother!" about her immigrant parents experience adjusting to life in...

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...

Meet the Godmother of San Francisco’s Independent Booksellers by Maryann Jones Thompson Published Apr. 23, 2023 When Barnes & Noble...

"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...

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...

Memoirs are real life stories that broaden our view of the world...and hopefully make us more aware, symathetic, and understanding of the...

"With unflinching honesty and raw vulnerability, this memoir offers a powerful message of hope and healing. The author's journey from...

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...

Memoirs like “Girl, Interrupt” by Susanna Kaysen uncover important perceptions, for example how women are often labeled as something less...

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...

I am grateful to Rebecca Woolf, columnist, blogger and author of the memoir "All of This" for taking the time to review my upcoming...

‘Hi, This Is Oprah Winfrey. I Read Your Novel and Loved It So Much.’ Ann Napolitano (pictured) toiled in obscurity for years. Novels went...

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...

Harriet Jacobs, whose memoir was the first book-length autobiography written by a formerly enslaved African American woman, died in...

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...

“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...