| 2012 |
| Jan 29 |
Love and Literature: A Review of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair
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Susan Barr-Toman |
| Jan 15 |
Tales of Food and Family: A Review of Quarter-Acre Farm, Eating for Beginners, A Tiger in the Kitchen, and Maman's Homesick Pie
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Lisa Catherine Harper |
| 2011 |
| Dec 18 |
Between Wonder and Fear: A Review of Milk Dress
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Ginny Kaczmarek |
| Nov 20 |
Prayers for a Normal Life: A Review of Letters from a Distant Shore
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Elrena Evans |
| Oct 21 |
Desiring Motherhood : A Review of Good Eggs
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Kate Haas |
| Oct 16 |
Mamas Writing Motherhood: A Conversation on New and Best Books on Craft
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Katherine J. Barrett |
| Sep 26 |
Shake off the Stupor and Get to Work: A Review of Raising Elijah
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Andrea Lani |
| Aug 27 |
Honest Voices: A Review of Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering
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Avery Fischer Udagawa |
| Jul 31 |
The Here and Now: A Review of A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood
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Kate Hopper |
| Jun 17 |
When Having It All Becomes Too Much: A Review of Papa, Ph.D. and Torn
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Irena Smith |
| May 22 |
Surviving the "Werewolf" Years: A Review of Three Essential Books on Parenting Teen Girls
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Zanne Miller |
| Apr 24 |
Mid-Life Rebirth: A Review of Shamrock and Lotus and The Life You've Imagined
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Andrea Lani |
| Mar 19 |
A Mother's Terror: A Review of 31 Hours
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Marian Berges |
| Jan 29 |
On Being Conspicuous: A Review of On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family Against the Grain
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Suzanne Kamata |
| 2010 |
| Dec 19 |
Through a Storm of Ping-Pong Balls: A Review of Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention
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Irena Smith |
| Nov 28 |
Celebrating the Everyday: A Review of The Gift of an Ordinary Day and Hand Wash Cold
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Lindsey Mead |
| Oct 16 |
To Be Of Use: A Review of Necessary Turns
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Barbara Crooker |
| Sep 19 |
Who's Your Daddy? A Review of Blood Strangers: A Memoir
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Christin Geall |
| Jul 26 |
Grounded in Love: A Review of Gravity Pulls You In: Perspectives on Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum
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Alissa McElreath |
| Jun 19 |
Mother Knows Best but Father Knows a Fair Amount, Too: A Review of Four Books on Fatherhood
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Jessica DeVoe Riley |
| May 21 |
When Mom Chooses Suicide: A Review of Imperfect Endings: A Daughter's Tale of Life and Death
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Nelle Engoron |
| May 16 |
Between Art and Motherhood: A Review of The Absence of Anyone Else
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Cassie Premo Steele |
| Apr 17 |
The Art of Avoiding Random Horrors: A Review of Three Works of Poetry
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Ginny Kaczmarek |
| Mar 21 |
Broadening the Motherhood Discussion: A Review of Who's Your Mama? and Unbuttoned
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Kate Hopper |
| Feb 21 |
A Writer Finding Her Voice: A Review of This Lovely Life: A Memoir of Premature Motherhood
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Jennifer Graf Groneberg |
| Jan 16 |
Clean Margins: A Review of Cancer Is a Bitch (Or, I'd Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis) by Gail Konop Baker
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Irena Smith |
| 2009 |
| Nov 22 |
Reclaiming Mama Plath: A Review of Ariel: The Restored Edition and The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
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Shannon Drury |
| Oct 24 |
Modern Families, Modern Roles: A Review of Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother
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Marilyn Chandler McEntyre |
| Aug 23 |
Motherhood is Nuclear: A Review of The Maternal Is Political
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Marian Berges |
| Jul 18 |
Balanced between different worlds: A review of Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage
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Kayt Sukel |
| Jun 20 |
Gathering Storms: A Review of Real Life and Liars
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Masha Hamilton |
| Apr 25 |
New Beginnings, Complicated Endings: A Review of Mother in the Middle: A Biologist's Story of Caring for Parent and Child
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Jessica Smartt Gullion |
| Feb 15 |
Smart Moms, Tough Choices: A Review of Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life
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Esther Wyss-Flamm |
| Jan 24 |
Intimate Connections: Barbara Crooker's Line Dance
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Ginny Kaczmarek |
| 2008 |
| Oct 19 |
In It Together: A Review of A Suburban Mom: Notes from the Asylum
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Heather Hudson |
| Sep 21 |
Writing the Maternal in The Gathering
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Kimberly Ford |
| May 18 |
Mapping Motherhood: A Review of Terrain
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Violeta Garcia-Mendoza |
| Apr 27 |
Traveling to the Interior: A Review of The Book of Sleep
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Ginny Kaczmarek |
| Mar 15 |
A Foreign Love: A Review of Losing Kei
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Susannah Pabot |
| Mar 2 |
Unprepared: A Review of Roadmap to Holland: How I Found My Way Through My Son's First Two Years With Down Syndrome
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Vicki Forman |
| Mar 2 |
Navigating Motherhood: A Review of Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin
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Deesha Philyaw |
| Jan 19 |
Legacy, Identity, and Motherhood: Social or Biological? A Review of Because a Fire Was in My Head
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Moura McGovern |
| 2007 |
| Dec 16 |
Lost and Found: A Review of About What Was Lost: 20 Writers on Miscarriage, Healing, and Hope
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Ann Douglas |
| Nov 18 |
Ain't I a Woman? A Review of I'm Every Woman: Remixed Stories of Marriage, Motherhood, and Work
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Deesha Philyaw |
| Oct 7 |
Of Choice and Circumstance: A Review of Maybe Baby and Choice
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Vicki Forman |
| Oct 7 |
Unflinching Honesty: Beth Ann Fennelly's Tender Hooks
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Ginny Kaczmarek |
| Aug 19 |
How It Was: A Review of The Mother-to-Mother Postpartum Depression Support Book: Real Stories from Women Who Lived Through It and Recovered
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Tracy Thompson |
| Jul 22 |
The Nanny 411: A Review of Searching for Mary Poppins: Women Write About the Intense Relationship Between Mothers and Nannies
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Rachel Iverson |
| Jun 17 |
Forging Ahead of the Fork in the Road: A Review of Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood after a Lifetime of Ambivalence
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Jenny Rough |
| May 14 |
Not One Mother, But Many: A Review of The Women Who Raised Me
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Deesha Philyaw |
| Mar 10 |
Not the Brady Bunch: A Review of My Father Married Your Mother: Writers Talk about Stepparents, Stepchildren and Everyone in Between
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Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser |
| Feb 4 |
Single Mom Seeking: A Review of Single Mom Seeking: Play Dates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World
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Suzanne LaFetra |
| Jan 28 |
Uniquely Alike: A Review of Great with Child: On Becoming a Mother
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Melanie Springer Mock |
| 2006 |
| Dec 21 |
If the Buddha Gave Birth: A Review of Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood
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Leah Harris |
| Dec 3 |
Not Quite Haiku: A Review of Haiku Mama (because 17 syllables is all you have time to read)
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Alle Hall |
| Oct 27 |
Baby Steps: A review of Baby Steps: How Lesbian Alternative Insemination Is Changing the World
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Karen Vernon |
| Oct 25 |
Midwifery and Magic: A Review of The Birth House
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Jen Lawrence |
| Sep 23 |
Chick Lit Grows Up: A Review of Sweet Ruin
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Marjorie Osterhout |
| Aug 27 |
Bigger Isn't Always Better: A Review of Nice Big American Baby
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Elizabeth Roca |
| Jun 26 |
Trailblazing the Ordinary: A Review of Confessions of the Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbian Moms Tell All!
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Ayelet Ben-Yishai |
| Jun 13 |
Seeking Caitlin Flanagan: A Review of To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife
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Jen Lawrence |
| May 27 |
War, What Is It Good For? A Review of Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families
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Mary Tsao |
| May 27 |
Mother Teresa or Medea: A Review of Unraveled: The True Story of a Woman Who Dared to Become a Different Kind of Mother
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Vicki Forman |
| Apr 27 |
The Feminine Mistake: A Review of Happy Housewives and the Return of Housewife Chic
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Jen Lawrence |
| Mar 27 |
Trading Sweatpants for Sex: A review of Confessions of a Naughty Mommy: How I Found My Lost Libido
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Mary Tsao |
| Mar 15 |
Identity, Freedom, Motherhood: A Review of Madras on Rainy Days
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Hilary Flower |
| Jan 27 |
Inspiration: A Review of From Motherhood to Mothering, The Legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born
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Rachel Iverson |
| 2005 |
| Dec 20 |
Truly, Madly, Gently: A Review of Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family
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Jennifer Eyre White |
| Nov 29 |
Telling it Like it Is: A Review of I Wanna be Sedated: 30 Writers on Parenting Teenagers
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Susan Jardin |
| Nov 16 |
Reality Check: A Review of Beyond Good Intentions: A Mother Reflects on Raising Internationally Adopted Children
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Lisa MB Simons |
| Nov 15 |
Does Motherhood Make You Crazy? A Review of Inconsolable and Down Came the Rain
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Libby Gruner |
| Oct 4 |
From War to Revolution: A Review of The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars: Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother and Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
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Libby Gruner |
| Sep 26 |
Common Threads: A Review of Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption
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Deesha Philyaw |
| Sep 11 |
A Review of Three-Ring Circus: How Real Couples Balance Marriage, Work, and Family
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Hilary Flower |
| Aug 8 |
Mothering in the Shadow of the Two Towers: A Review of Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write about Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race & Themselves
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Danielle Price |
| Jun 27 |
Mother-Hunger: A Review of Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart
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Cynthia Dobbs |
| Jun 27 |
Setting the Stage: A Review of Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts
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Stacey Greenberg |
| May 15 |
Head Trip: A Review of Elizabeth Graver's Unravelling, The Honey Thief, and Awake
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Suzanne LaFetra |
| May 11 |
Who Bears The Burden? A Review of The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood
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Patricia R. Payette |
| May 4 |
We Are Not Alone: A Review of The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood
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Libby Gruner |
| May 4 |
Songs of Truth: A Review of Mothersongs: Poems For, By, and About Mothers
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Rachel Iverson |
| Feb 23 |
Mother Luck: A Review of A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother and The Lucky Ones
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Danielle Price |
| Feb 14 |
A Review of Beyond One: Growing a Family and Getting a Life
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Lisa Moskowitz Sadikman |
| Feb 14 |
A Review of Rise up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood
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Deesha Philyaw |
| Feb 14 |
A Review of The Real Minerva
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Gayle Brandeis |
| Feb 14 |
Masks, Chains, and Myths: Analyzing Motherhood
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Libby Gruner |
| Feb 14 |
Heartbreaker To Root For: A Review of Shout Down the Moon
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M. H. Davis |
| Feb 14 |
Unmoored: A Review of Swimming With Maya: A Mother's Story
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Suzanne LaFetra |
| Feb 14 |
Wake Up and Smell the Martinis: A Review of The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting
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Jennifer Eyre White |
| Feb 14 |
A Review of Departures
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Hilary Flower |
| Feb 14 |
A Whorish Madonna: A Review of Mommy's Little Girl: On Sex, Motherhood, Porn, and Cherry Pie
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Polly Pagenhart |
| Feb 14 |
Born and Raised in this Dead-End Town: A Review of Growing Up Fast
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Norah Piehl |
| Feb 14 |
Starving for Affection: A Review of How I Learned to Cook, and other writings on complex mother-daughter relationships
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Patricia R. Payette |
| Feb 14 |
Learning Curve: A Review of The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting
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Suzanne LaFetra |
| Feb 14 |
Not In Her Footsteps: A Review of Mothering Without A Map: The Search for the Good Mother Within
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Rachel Sarah |
| Feb 14 |
How She Writes It: A Review of I Don't Know How She Does It
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Libby Gruner |
| Feb 14 |
Fear of Failing: A Review of A Potent Spell: Mother Love and the Power of Fear
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Norah Piehl |
| Feb 14 |
The Milky Way: A Review of Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts
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Heidi Raykeil |
| Feb 14 |
A Gentle Guide: A Review of Buddha Mom: The Path of Mindful Mothering
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Sarah Raleigh Kilts |
| Feb 14 |
Toddling Toward Community: A Review of Toddler: Real-life Stories of those Fickle, Irrational, Urgent, Tiny People We Love
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Suzanne LaFetra |
| Feb 14 |
Shock Value: A Review of Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It
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Judith Stadtman Tucker |
| Feb 14 |
Too Cool for Preschool: A Review of Breeder: Real Life Stories From the New Generation of Mothers
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Heidi Raykeil |
| Feb 14 |
The Woman in the Moon: A Review of Guarding the Moon
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Norah Piehl |
| Feb 14 |
A Look at Life Before Hip Mama-hood: A Review of Atlas of the Human Heart
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Rachel Sarah |
| Feb 14 |
The Wonder Years: Three writers talk about the time that leaves most of us speechless
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Libby Gruner |
