Book Reviews

Saturday Review: “Becoming the Lost Colony” a review by Donald Paul Haspel in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Charles R. Ewen and E. Thomson Shields Jr.’s book, Becoming the Lost Colony (2024

Saturday Review: “Finding a Way Out; Finding Yourself,” a review by Olivia Cash of Marshall Moore’s I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing (2022) in NCLR Online Winter 2025

Saturday Review: “Snake in the Grass” a review by Barbara Bennett of Minrose Gwin’s novel, Beautiful Dreamers (2024) in NCLR Online Winter 2025

Saturday Review: “Growing Up with Tobacco Truths” a review by Stephanie Whetstone of Adele Myers’s The Tobacco Wives: A Novel (2022), forthcoming in NCLR Online Winter… Read More »Whetstone reviews Myers

Saturday Review: “Dark Secrets of Carolina Girlhood” a review by Karin Zipf of Meagan Church’s novels The Girls We Sent Away and The Last Carolina Girl in NCLR Online Winter 2025

Saturday Review: “Between Life Before and Life After” a review by Kristi Southern
of The Saddest Girl on the Beach (2024) a novel by Heather Frese in NCLR Online Winter 2025

Saturday Review: “Let Us All Be Happy” a review by Janis Harrington in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Ralph Earle’s poetry collection, Everything You Love Is New (2024)

Saturday Review: “North Carolina’s Own Otto Wood: Notorious Criminal and Treasured Folk Hero” a review by Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr. In NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Trevor McKenzie’s book Otto Wood: The Bandit 

Another early look at a review from the forthcoming Online Winter 2025 issue!

Saturday Review: “Untangling the Strings” a review by Sharon Colley of Heather Newton’s novel The Puppeteer’s Daughters (2022) in NCLR Online Winter 2025 

Saturday Review: “A Poetic Journey into the Appalachian Past” a review by Thomas Rain Crowe in NCLR Online Winter 2025 of Julia Nunnally Duncan’s poetry collection When Time Was Suspended