OWLS - Older Women and Literature
Books to emotionally and intellectually nourish "older women"
3/31/24
Author Jennifer Rosner has written both fiction and non-fiction about children in difficult circumstances. Her memoir, If A Tree Falls: A Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard, describes her family’s emotional and social challenges in raising two deaf daughters. Her most recent novel, Once We Were Home, looks at what happened to young Jewish children hidden in WWII Europe and later brought to Israel.
Please see the Non-Fiction reviews for the first, and the Fiction reviews for the second.
3/23/24
Today marks one year since I began this book blog (with my husband’s technical help), and 56 years since we married. (He’s helped a lot with that, too.)
In this first OWLs year, I only included books to which I would give the highest ratings. Actually, I read at least twice as many as I write about, but decided early on to share only those I felt were the best. I’ve wondered if you would want to know about books I would not recommend. (You can let me know in the “Comments” section of this blog.)
Besides reading these books (and some other activities I love), I also read and listen to many reviews and podcasts about books. This year I’ve especially enjoyed “A Good Read,” from the BBC, and want to recommend it to you. For just under 30 minutes, host Harriett Gilbert and two guests talk about three books, one picked by each of them, which they all have read for the program. The guests are actors, writers, artists, musicians, chefs, historians, newscasters and more. The “Good Read” digital library goes back several years, and a new one is available once a week, except during summer. (I don’t know how Harriet does it.) If you’re interested, you can find it at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006v8jn/episodes/player.
Looking forward to sharing another year of books with you,
Deborah
Two historical novels about Real American heroines
Becoming Madame Secretary, 20th century Frances Perkins, published on March 12, 2024
Finding Margaret Fuller, early 19th century thinker and writer, to be published on March 19, 2024
Please see Reviews – Fiction