Rick Smith's and Bruce Lourie’s Slow Death by Rubber Duck Knopf, 2009 By the time the average woman grabs her morning coffee, she has applied 126 different chemicals in 12 different products to her face, body and hair. You’re thinking about it now, aren’t you? Even if you’re not a
Some of you may recall my debating over which book to read for Freedom to Read week, but the question was settled for me when I came upon an entry in Elizabeth Smart's Journals (which I was reading for the Women Unbound Reading Challenge). On July 26, 1933 she records the
Elizabeth Smart’s Autobiographies (1987) I vividly recall my first attempt at By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept; I read about one page and set it aside because I’d been looking for a quick read. Despite its slim form, Elizabeth Smart’s work is the sort that, for me,
Those who have already seen the exhaustive and enticing biography of L.M. Montgomery that Mary Rubio published last year might wonder whether readers need another biography of this 20thC writer, but these two are very different. Urquhart's will appeal to those who admired Carol Shield's slim biography of Jane Austen,
Just browsing through the table of contents of this essay collection might lead you to believe that it was penned by a feminist. Depending how you define feminist, of course. Certainly Atwood is as willing to consider works by Toni Morrison, Carol Shields, Angela Carter and Hilary Mantel as she
