Category: Non Fiction Books
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REVIEW: Movement Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Skinny Ice by Jocelyn Jane Cox
Reviewed by Emily Webber Jocelyn Jane Cox’s memoir, Movement Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating (Vine Leaves Press; Sept. 2025), is a tribute to her mom, a love letter to her son, and a testomony to resilience as a caregiver. The memoir begins as Cox makes preparations for her son’s zebra-themed first birthday celebration.…
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There are numerous folks touting the advantages of writing a e-book utilizing an AI device like ChatGPT or Perplexity, and I cringe each time I come throughout this recommendation. It’s misguided at greatest and nefarious at worst, particularly for nonfiction books. As nonfiction authors, we write books to coach, entertain, and encourage readers. We leverage…
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By Mansi Bhatia I stared on the final paragraph of my marriage essay for twenty minutes earlier than selecting an ending that didn’t match my reality. The brutally sincere ending sat in my head: “I don’t know if staying is love or just the trail of least resistance. Perhaps it’s each.” After 25 years collectively,…
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Reviewed by Dorothy Rowena Rice Humble Pie: Sober Menopause, Sugar Dependancy, and the Sweetness of Restoration (Bloomsbury; Jan. 2026) is a memoir that’s by turns laugh-out-loud humorous, emotionally charged, and extremely relatable throughout a large spectrum of points and ages. A trifecta of themes present the story’s backbone. Because the title states, Bowman (the writer…
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With the fast proliferation of AI instruments, we’re all discovering new methods to leverage these instruments to enhance our writing, conduct analysis, brainstorm concepts, develop inventive titles, and a lot extra. AI instruments can help your writing efforts, however please, please, please don’t use AI to write down a nonfiction e-book manuscript. (See why writing…
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By Patrice Gopo Within the spring of 2021. I used to be deep within the midst of a sophisticated and complicated multi-year battle with an expensive white good friend. For what felt like far too lengthy, we had been making an attempt to resolve our struggles in order that we might return the friendship to…
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Reviewed by Melissa Oliveira Early in Lights In Chilly Rooms: A Psychologist Displays on Household, Growing old, Love & Loss (CavanKerry Press; 2025), Joan Cusack Handler writes, “Incidents of despair quadrupled amongst growing old ladies through the COVID pandemic and quarantine isolation… Those that have been struggling have been left to face their demons alone.”…
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Analysis-driven nonfiction writers are not often caught as a result of they haven’t labored exhausting sufficient. In my expertise, the alternative is extra typically true: initiatives stall exactly as a result of the author has achieved quite a lot of cautious, sustained work—and has reached some extent the place effort alone is now not the…
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By Ethan Gilsdorf A feminine octopus and a lady with an consuming dysfunction. Certainly their experiences are too totally different, too divergent, to share something in any respect. Water animal versus land animal. Mollusc versus Homo sapiens. Eight appendages versus 4. And but in “How an Octopus Helps Me Assume About My Mom’s Consuming Dysfunction,”…
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Reviewed by Rae Pagliarulo I began studying Chloe Caldwell’s Making an attempt (Graywolf Press; August 2025) after an extended summer time of inhaling novel after novel. I believe I burned out a little bit from true tales (blasphemy, I do know), so when Making an attempt greeted me from a shelf in my favourite bookshop,…