Mother’s Day is this weekend, and I recently listened to two audiobooks, both from Macmillan Audio, that fit in well with the day. If you’re looking for a last-minute gift for a special mom in your life, here are two good options. “Motherhood is a kaleidoscopic subject.” Liane Hansen begins the foreword of A Mother’s…
Category Archives: Women’s Interest
When Did I Get Like This? Mothers I Swore I’d Never Be
When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I’d Never Be is a book of essays from Amy Wilson. I had expected humor, and she delivered that, but I was surprised that many of them were also delivered with introspection and heart. They read like blog…
Ditch the Joneses, Discover Your Family: How To Thrive on Less Than Two Incomes
I majored in education, but I always knew I wanted to be home when my kids were little. Thankfully, I married a very frugal man. Even though we we married right out of college, my husband was wise enough to suggest that we live on one income. For six years, we lived on one income…
Bring Back Beatrice: My first post on the Kirkus Reviews Blog
Recently a friend asked me what my name meant, and she couldn’t believe I didn’t know. I didn’t dare tell her that I didn’t know what my kids’ names meant either. I didn’t really look at baby books when I was thinking of names for my kids. My husband was ultra-sensitive to “weird” names, and…
F is for Friendship: A Quilting Alphabet
We’ve reviewed quite a few of Sleeping Bear Press’s Alphabet books here. We love them. If babies and toddlers come to mind when you think of alphabet books, then you’ve never looked at one of their fantastic picture books that uses an amazing strategy to make them appeal to younger kids (4 – 6 year…
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
I take so many things for granted: freely leaving my home when I want, pursuing interests and education, communicating openly with friends and family. I don’t give activities like these a second thought, but in many parts of the world, women can only dream of these freedoms. In The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, former ABC…
On Reading: For Expectant Mothers, and Beyond
We all know that pregnancy changes our bodies, our emotions, and how we understand the world. It’s no surprise that pregnancy and motherhood can also change what and how we read. Like a lot of women, I read voraciously when I became pregnant. A writer and professor, I was used to reading a book a…
The Inadequate Conception
Infertility brings frustration and heartbreak for so many couples, and it isn’t an easy topic to talk about for those women in the midst of it. Blogger Lori Green LeRoy knows these pains firsthand, but she’s opting to poke fun at some of the crazier aspects of the trials of infertility in her new book,…
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