Tag Archives: nonfiction

REVIEW: Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons, by Liza Donnelly

Well here I am again…reading about women’s trials and tribulations. It’s an age-old classic that will never end. I thought perhaps I’d had enough of it after working on my graduate thesis covering the “New Woman” and her struggles. But no, I decided to open up Liza Donnelly’s Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women

REVIEW: THE GLASS CASTLE, BY JEANNETTE WALLS

At the urging of pretty much everyone I know who enjoys reading, I finally read Jeannette Walls memoir, The Glass Castle. Somehow I managed to completely miss all of the hype about the New York Times bestseller that was published in 2005 and only just recently found out of it’s existence when pressed to read

REVIEW: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua

Amy Chua has evoked many extreme and widely varied reactions to her new, controversial memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. A quick glance at the thousands of comments on her original WSJ article (a condensed version of her book), or the comments on any of the numerous articles that have since sprouted up in