No Kids Required by Jenn Sadai

by Laura | Oct 8, 2019

Review by Brit McGinnis Do you know someone on the brink of deciding whether to have children? Give that person the book No Kids Required by Jenn Sadai. Her book gives readers a holistic conversation about the decision to have kids, and tells it in a voice that may...

Nobody’s Mother: Life Without Kids, Edited by Lynne Van Luven

by Laura | Aug 7, 2019

By Erica L. Bergmann Midway through the first essay in Nobody’s Mother: Life Without Kids, it’s apparent how one-size-fits-all will not apply to any of its 21 unique contributors. This anthology is primarily written by Canadian and some American women on how or why...

What Would Cleopatra Do?

by Laura | Feb 12, 2019

I recently found myself at the airport having just finished my latest read with time to spare before boarding the plane. What better way to kill time than peruse the airport bookstore! Often my next book presents itself to me, and this is just what happened within...

The Cows [Don’t Follow the Herd] by Dawn O’Porter

by Laura | Nov 19, 2018

While my book collection largely focuses on nonfiction, The Cows fits into my Surprise Picks category as a fiction work. As an author and researcher on the childfree choice for some time now, whenever I hear of a novel with a childfree character, I have to check it...

On the Auto-Fictional Novel, Motherhood, by Sheila Heti

by Laura | Jun 7, 2018

While my LiveTrue book collection focuses on nonfiction, given my background as a writer and author on childfree and parenthood decision-related topics, the subject matter of this novel makes it an exception! Check out book review team member Brittany Brolley’s...