Every short story in Judith Hermann’s collection The Summer House, Later will leave you with a large range of emotions: melancholy, surprise, and also loneliness. It is almost impossible to just read this book, put it away and go on.
Category: Book Reviews
Red Dust Road
Red Dust Road is autobiographical; Jackie Kay takes you as the reader by the hand and leads you on a journey from a wee cottage in the Highlands of Scotland to the red dust roads of Nigeria.
Her Wits About Her: Self-defence Success Stories by Women
By collecting individual stories instead of giving only figures and facts about self-defence the editors have achieved their aims: women are given the experience of survival.
Captured hearts: New Brunswick’s war brides
This book is about those young women who married Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen and went to live with them in New Brunswick.
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother: A Diary and Reader
Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother is an anthology which, according to Olsen, aims to share the beauty of women’s relationships.
Under an Emerald Sky
Tells the story of two girls of Nigerian heritage born in the 1980s in England and their struggle towards self love and womanhood.
Poems by Wislawa Szymborska
Her poetry is about humankind and its sufferings, about how wonderful the universe is.
A Voice of Dissent: A Woman’s Journey Through the Long Eighteenth Century
Uses literature by and for women in the 18th and 19th centuries as evidence of how their lives really were.
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
I could call the story of Maya Angelou’s life ‘uplifting’ but that would do her so little justice. She explains it best in the titles she chose for herself: hers is a story that begins with a caged bird singing and ends in song, free, flung toward the skies.
Hood
…it is a window into lesbianism; it is a study of grief; it is proof that death, and love, follow no script.