Book Reviews

Saturday Review: “A Stunning and Haunting Survival Story” a review by Jennifer McGaha in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Stephanie Clare Smith’s Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and imagination (2024)

Saturday Review: “Scripture of Exile and Return” a review by Robert M. West of Jeffery Beam’s Verdant (2022) in NCLR Online Spring 2025.

Saturday Review: “Challenging Perspective with Persona Poetry,” a review by Michael Beadle of Catherine Pritchard Childress’s Outside the Frame in NCLR Online Spring 2025

Saturday Review: “Introducing children to the wonders of the universe” a review by Mark I. West of Allan Wolf’s children’s book The Blanket Where Violet Sits (2022) in NCLR Online Spring 2025.  

Saturday Review: “Fear and Hope in the 1980s” a review by Elaine Thomas in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Paul Crenshaw’s memoir Melt With Me (2023)

Saturday Review: “The Things We Feared” a review by Wendy Tilley in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Megan Miranda’s novel, Such a Quiet Place (2021) 

Saturday Review: “Feminism in Dark Fairy Tales,” a review by Kenly Corya of T. Kingfisher’s Nettle & Bone (2022) and A Sorceress Comes to Call (2024) in… Read More »Corya reviews Kingfisher

Saturday Review: “so many there with me” a review by Catherine Carter in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Jessica Jacobs’ poetry collection unalone: Poems in Conversation with the Book of Genesis (2024) 

Saturday Review: “Creating a Midlife of Surprise and Delight” a review by Patricia R. Webb in NCLR Spring 2025 of Jennifer McGaha’s The Joy Document (2024).

Saturday Review: “Wolf and McGee in the Outfield” a review by Shelby Hans in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Thomas Wolf’s The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 (2023) and Ryan McGee’s Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer, at the Perfect Ballpark, at the Perfect Time (2023)