Where to find my latest book reviews Just dropping in with a little reminder that I have moved all my writing, including book reviews, to my Substack, Bad Mothers. Recent book reviews there include: If you like these reviews, I hope you’ll subscribe! Book reviews are always free to read, while some of my otherContinue reading “New Book Reviews”
Tag Archives: abortion
Reply to: The Run-Up
Podcast, New York Times, June 1, 2023 Marjorie Dannenfelser is president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and was a guest on The Run-Up podcast today. At the end of her interview with host Astead Herndon, she said that democrats do not have a response to her organization’s proposed 15-week ban on abortion: “They don’tContinue reading “Reply to: The Run-Up”
Reply To: Vulture
My thoughts on a recent interview on Vulture. With things like interracial marriage, or gay marriage, or immigration rights, or any number of things, you can see big opinion shifts in America in the span of a few years or even months sometimes. But it seems like Americans have made their mind up on abortion.Continue reading “Reply To: Vulture”
The Business of Birth Control
Documentary, screened with The Trouble Club at The Vagina Museum, London19 October, 2022 Members of the Trouble Club (like me!) were invited to a screening of a new documentary, The Business of Birth Control, from Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake. The filmmakers describe it as an examination of “the complex relationship between hormonal birth controlContinue reading “The Business of Birth Control”
Animal
By Lisa Taddeo, published 2021 I don’t think I’ve ever used the phrase “tour-de-force” but it’s what comes to mind with this book. I initially had a difficult time getting into the novel because the narrator is a bit strange and probably a mentally ill. Joan is a bit like Eleanor Oliphant except that sheContinue reading “Animal”
Still Born
By Guadalupe Nettel (2020), tr. Rosalind Harvey in 2022 While the title is evocative, it is appropriate to the story. So much so, I would argue no other title would do it justice. In this novel, a child is not still born, as in delivered in death. Instead, the child is born — alive —Continue reading “Still Born”
Loved and Wanted
By Christa Parravani, 2020 The U.S. Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization is expected any day now, and has the potential to overturn the right to obtain an abortion set out in the landmark 1973 decision Roe v Wade. That makes this book especially timely. In the new afterword, Parravani referencesContinue reading “Loved and Wanted”
Monica Cardenas 