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Book Review of CONFETTI AND ASHES by Shahd Alshammari
Book Review of CONFETTI AND ASHES by Shahd Alshammari. Reviewed by Mandy Fessenden Brauer, 5 March, 2025 As author, Dr. Shahd Alshammari writes in the afterward: “CONFETTI AND ASHES – REFLECTIONS ON WELLNESS explores the genre of life narratives and speculative...
RECYCLED2023
RECYCLED: A RELUCTANT SEARCH FOR TRUE SELF THROUGH NURTURE, NATURE AND FREE WILL by Jack Rocco What a fascinating book about a man who was adopted, was a very successful orthopedist, and later on began to research his and other people’s experience with adoption....
PLACES WE LEFT BEHIND
PLACES WE LEFT BEHIND When Jennifer Lang meets a handsome Israeli from a French background which she describes in PLACES WE LEFT BEHIND: A MEMOIR IN MINIATURE, she is not sure what she’s gotten into, but almost immediately she is in an intense relationship....
MAKING FRIENDS WITH MONSTERS by Sandra Rostirolla
MAKING FRIENDS WITH MONSTERS by Sandra Rostirolla While I’ve read for years about the horrendous droughts in Australia, Making Friends with Monsters makes this harsh environment on a sheep farm a stark reality for the readers. No rain means all the plants and grass...
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LINGERING REGRETS REVISITED By Mandy Fessenden Brauer It is not always easy being honest, particularly when I consider my role as a mother. Now as an octogenarian, eighty-two as I write this, and looking back on my two children’s births over fifty years ago, I...
JUST ANOTHER MEAT-EATING DIRT BAG 42023
JUST ANOTHER MEAT-EATING DIRT BAG by Michael Anthony This graphic novel is much more than about love and a developing relationship where the couple are dealing with a carnivore and a staunch vegetarian and animal rights advocate. The strength of the book lies in the...
HAPPINESS CAME WITH A CAT by Cynthia Starr is a delightful
HAPPINESS CAME WITH A CAT by Cynthia Starr is a delightful, short book about a single, middle-aged woman’s life with a cat she didn’t particularly want but which her daughter wanted. The book covers eight years of their rather tumultuous adventures together. The day...
ChickensOneDayReview2022
Chickens One Day, Feathers the Next by Guinotte Wise is a delightful journey through the fascinating life of an octogenarian. As a memoir composed of deeply personal essays, Wise reveals he’s had an amazing variety of jobs in his full life, ranging from being a rodeo...
Brauer A Cold Death FINAL CLEAN
Mandy Fessenden Brauer Maternal Narrative: Theory and Representation 10 January 2018 revised April 2018 A Cold Death: Storying Loss and Writing Toward Forgiveness “Good morning, sis. Are you sitting down?” “You know I’m not. The phone is hanging on the kitchen wall....
Report on the Mental Health of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Based on a Fact-Finding Mission to the Occupied Territories in June, 1990 by n. Dubrow, S. Fernando, M. Fessender Brauer & P.Mellor. Sponsored by The Palestinian Association for Mental Health, The Palestinian Red Crescent Society, Birzeit University.
Lingering Regrets Revisited
in The Pain Mothers Must Never Expose: Confronting the Silences of Maternal Life, ed by Michelann Parr, Demeter Press, Ontario Canada, 2024
A Cold Death: Storying Loss & Writings Towards Forgiveness
Writing Mothers : Narrative Acts of Care, Redemption and Transformation, ed. Betty Ann Martin & Michelann Parr, Demeter Press, Ontario Canada, 2020. P 79-89
Memories of Gaza During the First Intifada
New Moons. Contemporary Writing by North American Muslim Writers, ed. Kazim Ali, Red Hen Press, Pasada, CA, 2021. P 71-76