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I Discuss my Writing Process on WWWB

9/28/2021

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I wrote about my history of writing to get where I am now on the website Women's Writers, Women's Books.
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Review of Love in Any Language from Forever Young Autobiographies

9/22/2021

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I got a nice review for Love in Any Language from Nicola at foreveryoungautobigraphies.com, you can read about it here.
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Goodreads Review of Love in Any Language

9/21/2021

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Vanessa's Reviews on Goodreads says about Love in Any Language, "I love the way she talks about cultures and how we complement each other…This was a wonderful read and I totally recommend it!"
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Story Circle Reviews Love in Any Language

9/20/2021

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I got a nice review for Love in Any Language over at Story Circle!
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Interview on the Dr. Joe Show

9/16/2021

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I was interviewed on The Dr. Joe Show September 9 to talk about Love in Any Language, had a great time!
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"We Called Him Sarge"

9/16/2021

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I wrote an article about the three times in my life I met Sargent Shriver, read about it on peacecorpsworldwide.org.

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Article in GirlTalkHQ

9/14/2021

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I just wrote an article on girltalkhq.com about fighting for women's rights in the 60's, you can read about it here.
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Review of Shooting Out the Lights, by Kim Fairley

9/12/2021

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The author takes us into a stressful summer in her life when she is newly married and pregnant and her much older husband agrees to take in Stan, the challenging eleven-year-old son of a friend. The protagonist describes incidents of Stan’s unusual, often delinquent, behavior, while weaving in traumas from her own childhood. The detailed descriptions of period architecture and mid-western plants make the book a historical and botanical guide. Similes like, “Vern’s health was as precarious as a five-foot stack of bowling balls,” and metaphors such as, “darting through the house like a rabid bat,” delighted this reader and are sprinkled generously throughout the book. An entertaining read. 

You can find out more at kimfairley.com.

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Review of "When the Red Gates Opened" by Dori Jones Yang

9/8/2021

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When the Red Gates Opened by Dori Jones Yang is a book all readers, but especially determined, headstrong females, can identify with. Hers is a story of falling in love with an occupation, a country, and a man. The Mandarin-speaking author takes us with her as she struggles to break important stories for Business Week—while also nurturing her relationship with the Chinese American man she wants to marry. In often metaphorical language, she guides us throughout Hong Kong, China, and other Asian countries, opening our eyes to the cityscapes, countryside, and the people. We see events through the eyes of a new, then a seasoned, reporter. We accompany her to interviews with common citizens and major leaders and begin to understand the antecedents of China becoming a major economic power. We learn what led to and the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre. As a fellow author who has also lived in a foreign country, I delighted in her use of similes such as, “…like handing over the church keys to a group of atheists.” This is a book dense with historical information that will delight the reader.


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Review of No Rules by Sharon Dukett

9/5/2021

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For the past year, I delayed reading Sharon Dukett’s memoir, No Rules, because I wasn’t eager to read yet another memoir about the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the early 1970s. I had chosen a different life path, so in the first chapters, I found it hard not to judge the young protagonist for treating her body and life with such careless abandon. But the author’s detailed narrative, reflections, and vivid descriptions soon captured me, much like her charms captured those who tried to watch out for her. I, too, wanted to protect her from her more foolhardy decisions. The story of her life between the ages of 16 to 19, follows her from coast to coast and hitchhiking through Canada and back to the US. Each adventure and misadventure inches her closer to a realization of her strengths. This moving memoir whisks us through the tumultuous times of an earlier era as a young girl searches for wholeness and love, that she finds reside within herself.


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    Evelyn LaTorre is a memoir writer living in Fremont, CA.

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