Book Reviews

Saturday Review: “A New Playground,” a review by Wendy Tilley of Susan Reinhardt’s novel The Beautiful Misfits (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2025

Saturday Review: “Good is Circumstantial” a review by Jon Kesler of Halle Hill’s short story collection Good Women Stories in NCLR Online Winter 2025

Saturday Review: “The Lands that Shape Us” a review by Evan Peter Smith in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Georgann Eubanks’ Saving the Wild South: The Fight for Native Plants on the Brink of Extinction (2021) and Bland Simpson’s North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky (2021) 

Saturday Review: “Bringing the Hidden into the Light” a review by Moira Crone in NCLR Online Spring 2025 of Elaine Neil Orr’s Dancing Woman (2025) novel

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