*This review originally appeared in the Historical Novels Review and can be found online here. Elizabeth, Louise, Henrietta, and Sophia were the four daughters of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, daughter of James I of England, and granddaughter of the executed Mary, Queen of Scots. Members of a family of thirteen children, their childhoods were largely defined […]
Book review: “Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind” by B. Lipska
Director of the NIMH brain bank Barbara Lipska, PhD shares her harrowing journey through recurrent melanoma, this time in her brain and lungs. Already a breast cancer and melanoma survivor, Dr. Lipska is incredibly fit physically, has a loving, stable home live, and thrives in her new position as curator of human brain specimens that […]
Book review: “Girl, Wash Your Face” by Rachel Hollis
In “Girl, Wash Your Face”, TheChicSite.com founder Rachel Hollis gives girls, women, mothers, entrepreneurs, working mothers, stay-at-home mothers, and everyone in between a breath of fresh air. Brutally honest, hilarious, and deep on a visceral level – this is female empowerment at its very best. Here, Rachel outlines the top “lies” we women have somehow […]
Book review: “Victoria The Queen” by Julia Baird
Julia Baird has written a fresh and eminently readable biography of Victoria R.I. Here, Ms. Baird recaps the familiar milestones and major relationships of Victoria’s life, but also presents a novel take on many of the most repeated stories and characteristics that were first attributed to Victoria by her male biographers and then parroted innumerable […]
Book review: “Just Sit” by Suky and Elizabeth Novogratz
In my effort to review more books that are good for your body as well as your mind and soul, I read this delightful book on how to get started on daily meditation practice when you feel like a meditation flunky. And believe me, I’ve felt like a meditation flunky for quite some time! This […]
Book review: “Rules of Magic” by Alice Hoffman
In this prequel to “Practical Magic”, readers are taken into the childhood of “the aunts”: Francis and Jet. Born in New York City, Franny is red headed, tenacious, and serious, while Jet is lovely, quiet, and shy. Their mother Susanna has raised them and their brother Vincent to be as normal as possible, but it […]
Book review: “This Side of Murder” by Anna Lee Huber
Mystery author Anna Lee Huber, author of the Lady Darby mystery series and A Gothic Myth series, ventures into WWI with former Secret Service agent Verity Kent. Recently widowed by the Great War, Verity reluctantly agrees to attend a house party on Umbersea Island, hosted by a close army buddy of her late husband Sidney. […]
Book review: “Enchantress of Numbers” by J. Chiaverini
Augusta Ada Byron had a tumultuous childhood as her mother fled with Ada to the safety of her parents’ home only weeks after her birth. Ada’s father, the famous poet Lord Byron, was never to see his daughter again. Ada would grow up traveling from rented home to rented home with her mother, a woman […]
Book review: “This is the Story of a Happy Marriage” by A. Patchett
Recently recommended by Reese Witherspoon for her virtual book club, I picked this one up hesitantly, despite it being on Reese’s “must read” list. I have never read one of Ms. Patchett’s works of fiction, but I thought maybe this collection of essays would be a way to dip my toe in the water. What […]
Book review: “Royal Sisters” by Anne Edwards
Two princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, were yanked from relative obscurity into the world spotlight when their uncle, Edward VIII, abdicated his throne and their father became Gorge VI. The close knit family (“we four”, as the king called them) were to undergo enormous challenges, not least of which were roles that the king and his […]
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