Book Reviews

Saturday Review: “A Journey Through Unseen Worlds” a review by Amber Knox in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Michele Tracy Berger’s story collection Doll Seed and Other Stories (2024) 

Saturday Review: “A Mix of Grief and Mystery” a review by Cody Messer of Matthew Fiander’s Ringing in Your Ears (2023) in NCLR Online Spring 2025

Messer describes Fiander’s debut novel as…

Saturday Review: “The Kindness in Anger,” a review by Onyx Bradley of Eric Tran’s Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke (2022) in NCLR Online Spring 2025.
Bradley reviews a recent collection of Tran’s poetry that touches on LGBTQ+ grief while not “letting the poems get too dark”.

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