Michelle Anne Schingler

Traverse City

Jewish feminist; progressive tendencies.Bibliophile w/Sorkin addiction. Book Riot contributor. Views mine and mine alone.

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Review of Imagine a Door

3 weeks ago | forewordreviews.com | Michelle Anne Schingler

A Writer's Guide to Unlocking Your Story, Choosing a Publishing Path, and Honoring the Creative Journey Laura Stanfill Forest Avenue Press (Apr 1, 2025) Softcover $24.00 (518pp)978-1-942436-65-2 From Forest Avenue Press founder and novelist Laura Stanfill comes Imagine A Door, an empathetic, informative guide through the world of writing and publishing. For every writer who’s ever felt stuck or undervalued, this book will act as an edifying balm.
Review of Tchotchkes and Their F*cked-Up Thoughts

2 months ago | forewordreviews.com | Michelle Anne Schingler

The Messed-Up Minds of Your Trinkets and Treasures Elisabeth Saake The Collective Book Studio (Apr 15, 2025) Hardcover $15.95 (120pp)978-1-68555-621-1 Joined together, the grumbles of ill-appreciated and misunderstood knickknacks become cacophonous in Elisabeth Saake’s cheeky, delightful gift book Tchotchkes and Their F*cked-Up Thoughts.
Review of A Line You Have Traced

2 months ago | forewordreviews.com | Michelle Anne Schingler

Roisin Dunnett The Feminist Press (Apr 15, 2025) Softcover $17.95 (320pp)978-1-55861-387-4 Across more than a century, three women connected by a narrative persist beyond the brokenness of their worlds in A Line You Have Traced, Roisin Dunnett’s stunning speculative novel. At the end of World War I, brilliant Bea assists her husband in building their London business—until a rapacious writer invades her married life.
Review of Portrait of an Oyster

2 months ago | forewordreviews.com | Michelle Anne Schingler

A Natural History of an Epicurean Delight Andreas Ammer Falk Nordmann (Illustrator)Renée von Paschen (Translator) Greystone Books (Apr 22, 2025) Hardcover $22.95 (192pp)978-1-77840-127-5 A decadent horror story (for the oyster) narrated with awe and gusto, Andreas Ammer’s Portrait of an Oyster is must for all who find their joy on the half shell.
Review of Gabriële

2 months ago | forewordreviews.com | Michelle Anne Schingler

Anne Berest Claire Berest Tina Kover (Translator) Europa Editions (Apr 22, 2025) Hardcover $28.00 (352pp)979-888966089-7 An ambitious reconstruction of a hidden personal life, Gabriële is Anne and Claire Berest’s biographical novel about their formidable great-grandmother. At twenty-seven, Gabriële Buffet had carved out an unusual life—studying musical composition at a time when few women did; teaching music in Germany; vowing never to marry.
Review of Mid-Century Modern Designers

2 months ago | forewordreviews.com | Michelle Anne Schingler

Dominic Bradbury Phaidon Press (Apr 10, 2025) Hardcover $89.95 (352pp)978-1-83866-927-0 Celebrating the seductive lines of classic designs, Dominic Bradbury’s coffee table book Mid-Century Modern Designers is sure to please aesthetes and home decorators alike. Their palettes “colorful and joyful” and their designs “taking inspiration from both nature and geometry,” mid-century designs remain favorites among contemporary stylists, Bradbury notes.
Review of A Little Camper Love

2 months ago | forewordreviews.com | Michelle Anne Schingler

Rayna Meakin Heritage House Publishing (Apr 22, 2025) Hardcover $24.95 (64pp)978-1-77203-527-8 This charming picture book for all ages celebrates life on four wheels in lovely watercolor style. A parade of campers is introduced, each with its own personality and attributes: Bob the Boler cruises down an autumnal road, cutting a “clever” path; Olive, a half-turquoise beauty surrounded by hearts, is a “dream come true” for those within her.
Review of Gittel

2 months ago | forewordreviews.com | Michelle Anne Schingler

Laurie Schneider Fitzroy Books (Apr 1, 2025) Softcover $14.95 (144pp)978-1-64603-551-9 In Laurie Schneider’s stirring historical novel Gittel, a young immigrant makes her way in a small town where some people are hostile to differences. Once, Gittel’s family lived in fine circumstances among a proud Jewish community. After a pogrom tore through their city in Tsarist Russia, though, they fled.
Journey with Valter: A Culinary Maestro

Jan 22, 2025 | forewordreviews.com | Michelle Anne Schingler

Editor-in-Chief Michelle Schingler Interviews Elaine Bapis, Author of Valter of Salt Lake City: The Magic of the TableA longstanding, legendary restaurant does something incalculable for a city. Of course, any restaurant’s legacy is built on serving delicious food, but the best also teach diners about selflessness and service, food as art, and the soul-enriching friendship and conviviality that is only known to the dinner table.
Review of Words

Jan 15, 2025 | forewordreviews.com | Michelle Anne Schingler

Katherine Davis-Gibbon Anne Berry (Illustrator) Riverlet Press (Apr 6, 2025) Softcover $10.75 (36pp)978-1-73795-767-6 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 Words is an empathetic picture book that celebrates language’s ability to illuminate people’s lives. Beckoning to nascent logophiles with empathy and humor, Katherine Davis-Gibbon’s picture book Words is about trusting language to be there when one needs it.