Read Her Like an Open Book

Read Her Like an Open Book

A blog dedicated to honoring women's literary fiction and memoirs. It features reviews, interviews, guest contributions from authors, updates on books, and much more!

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  • 2 weeks ago | billwolfe.substack.com | Bill Wolfe

    My piece last week about eight worthwhile books you may have missed got a very positive response here and on my Instagram account. Many people said they hadn't heard of any of the books but were adding some (or several) to their reading list. The situation with highly publicized books by famous authors or the few selected by celebrity book clubs is similar to that of major studio movies and independent films.

  • 3 weeks ago | billwolfe.substack.com | Bill Wolfe

    In the flood of books that are published each year, it is easy to miss worthy books, especially those published by independent presses that lack the marketing muscle of the big houses and which are never chosen by one of the celebrity book clubs. One of my favorite things is to help readers find these books. Here are eight books from the last ten years that offer a satisfying read and might be just the right choice for your book club.

  • 1 month ago | billwolfe.substack.com | Bill Wolfe

    In December 1960, my grandparents were killed in an airline collision in the blustery skies over New York City. My mother was fourteen at the time, and her parents were traveling from Columbus, Ohio, to seek placement of their family’s iconic magazine, Highlights for Children, on the newsstands. I was born six years later to a mother suffering from protracted mourning. I knew very little about this life-defining tragedy while I was growing up.

  • 1 month ago | billwolfe.substack.com | Bill Wolfe

    Book awards season has begun in earnest with three somewhat lesser known, but still important, prizes: the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Jennine Capó Crucet and Willy Vlautin were named winners of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize for Say Hello to My Little Friend and The Horse, respectively.

  • 1 month ago | billwolfe.substack.com | Bill Wolfe

    I was on the third day of a bicycle trip from Lisbon, Portugal to the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, and had just huffed and puffed up a steep hill to a Celtic standing stone circle.