http://www.hercircleezine.com Exploring the Feminine Experience in the World Community Mon, 12 May 2008 17:06:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the south, it’s not uncommon to hear this expression: “Don’t you have people?” This refers to the hired help a woman might have to help keep up with her domestic bliss. Nannies. Lawn Service. Housekeeper. I don’t have people. However, I have kids (ages 3 and 4), a house, ... http://www.hercircleezine.com/2008/05/12/which-came-first-the-writer-or-the-mama/ Hello, HerCircle friends. As you might recall, my debut novel Janeology launched last month and I have been out and about promoting the book. So today, I’d like to share some of the most memorable exchanges that have taken place at my various book signings. Enjoy! Of my books on ... http://www.hercircleezine.com/2008/05/05/overheard-at-a-booksigning/ Travelers' Tales, 2008 Review by Suzanne Kamata The traveler’s tale my husband and I tell most often is about the time an arsonist set fire to our Vancouver hotel and I was rescued by hook and ladder. It was a small fire, no one was injured, and we got a story out ... http://www.hercircleezine.com/2008/05/01/the-best-women%e2%80%99s-travel-writing-2008-edited-by-lucy-mccauley/ Crown Publishing Group, February 2006 Review by Vanessa Dora Murray It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over! Cupcake Brown, an attorney who worked at one of the 25th largest law firms in the nation, has traveled all over the country to deliver a motivational speech. “My goal is to hopefully inspire as many people ... http://www.hercircleezine.com/2008/05/01/a-piece-of-cake-by-cupcake-brown/ Finishing Line Press, 2007 Review by Rachel Dacus Can memories be passed down through generations? This is the question at the heart of Lesley Wheeler’s fascinating new chapbook of linked poems on the theme of her mother’s World War II era Liverpool. The book begins with a poem whose title challenges ideas ... http://www.hercircleezine.com/2008/05/01/scholarship-girl-by-lesley-wheeler/ Les Figues Press, 2007 Review by GA. A. Banks-Martin True Birth Voice of Ice, a collection of prose poems, by Alta Ifland, an ambitious group of poems in which the speaker seeks to discover her true self. The poems are highly descriptive and many times highly surrealistic often leaving us ... http://www.hercircleezine.com/2008/05/01/voice-of-ice-by-alta-ifland/ by Shannon K. Winston I write To shout To live You write To shout To live But who will silence The shouting between us? -Habiba Muhammadi, trans. Ibrahim Muhawi Habiba Muhammadi was born in Algeria and attended the University of Algiers where she studied philosophy. She then moved to Egypt where ... http://www.hercircleezine.com/2008/05/01/between-pen-and-paper-the-poetry-of-habiba-muhammadi/ The Arizona University Press, 2007 Review by Kimberly L. Becker The Greening If, as Diane Glancy observes, "Writing is a conversation,” then we are fortunate to listen in on her latest collection of poems, Asylum in the Grasslands. Author of more than thirty books, Glancy is also novelist, essayist, and playwright. ... http://www.hercircleezine.com/2008/05/01/asylum-in-the-grasslands-by-diane-glancy/ 2006, 34 minutes Review by Nicolette Westfall Lori Benson potently documents her abrupt transition from new mother to a patient with breast cancer. Although the work is only 34 minutes long, it is an emotionally charged film that reveals great insight into her struggle with a mastectomy and life afterwards. Footage of ... http://www.hercircleezine.com/2008/05/01/dear-talula-a-film-by-lori-benson/ Ballantine Books, 2000 Review by Mary Senior Harwood Hidden Truths The brutal murder of a white woman whose body washes up on the beach in the small village of Otahiti in Trinidad – the result of “man-woman business” say the men -- sets this book in motion. Zuela, the Venzuelan wife of a ... http://www.hercircleezine.com/2008/05/01/bruised-hibiscus-by-elizabeth-nunez/