Feminism Woo Yay!
All you wonderful women out there who are feminists and SF readers, have you heard about the new column at …
Category Archives: Memoir/Biography
Q’s Legacy
If you are a fan of Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road you will love her book Q’s Legacy. It …
Reading Women
I was interested in reading Stephanie Staal’s Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life but had …
The Swerve
Before my turn came round for Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, I thought it was just …
A More Perfect Heaven
I had planned to begin my year of reading science books by women with Natalie Angier’s The Canon but it …
The Lives of Margaret Fuller, Part Two
Previously in the Lives of Margaret Fuller, smart girl, no friends, becomes an admirer of Goethe, nearly dies of typhoid, …
The Lives of Margaret Fuller, Part One
Several years ago when I had my Emerson project and read through all of his essays and then read a …
Feynman
In the mood for science? Biography? A graphic novel? Then you may want to read Feynman written by Jim Ottaviani …
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair
When offered a review copy of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch I couldn’t say no. I figured …
Fun Home
Because of Nick Hornby’s gushing and the infuriating anti-graphic novel discussion from my classmates a couple weeks ago, I got …
