Dust Bowl Girls: A Team's Quest for Basketball Glory Author: Lydia Reeder Publisher: Algonquin Books Genre: Nonfiction Oklahoma. The Dust Bowl. Women's basketball. The season that made history. The 1930s were a hard time for many, but none so much as the farmers of Oklahoma. At the time, poor families made dresses out of grain…
Book Reviews
Novel and Nonfiction reviews, as posted on Amazon or Goodreads.
Little Nothing, by Marisa Silver
Little Nothing by Marisa Silver Penguin Group/Blue Rider Press "The silence is so dense that it is just as hard on the baby's eardrums as is any sound. It is the silence that will become the refrain, when a stranger falls speechless in the child's presence, or when a villager pushes her children behind her skirts…
The Wolf Road, by Beth Lewis: A Review
The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis Published by Crown Publishers, Penguin Random House Elka hasn't had much luck in her life. Between the nightmare of the thunderheads that keep her awake at night, and the raging memories behind the locked doors in her memory, she can count the people she's cared for on a single…
Dear Opl: A Review
Dear Opl Shelley Sackier My Review: 4 of 5 stars It's been a while since I've devoured a book as sweet and sticky as Dear Opl. Shelley Sackier's breakout novel is charming and sophisticated, written to be both entertaining and educational. Opal is thirteen years old, and life simply isn't going well for her. Her…
Plug Your Book! A Review
Title: Plug Your Book! Online Marketing for Authors Author: Steve Weber Publisher: Weber Books Year: 2007 Rating: I picked up this book as part of my efforts to learn as much about book marketing as I could for a small press back in late 2013. At the time, I was doing marketing for the eco-horror…
Ariel Hudnall 