by Laura | Jan 17, 2025
Review by Brandye Nobiling From the first essay entitled “Famous Last Words” to the last entitled “DINKS on a Plane,” Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent, edited by New Zealanders Alie Benge, Lil O’Brien, and Kathryn Van Beek, gives...
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...
by Laura | Nov 15, 2017
Israeli sociologist Orna Donath breaks important ground in her book, Regretting Motherhood: A Study. She bravely takes on motherhood regret squarely and directly, and questions “the social order and systems of power that present women with only one possibility: that...
by Laura | Oct 5, 2016
Review by Melanie Davis The foster care system receives billions of dollars, yet after five years of dedicated research, author Cris Beam reveals how poorly this system is working. To The End of June: An Intimate Life of American Foster Care shines a focused light on...
by Laura | Mar 29, 2016
Upon receiving a review copy of Peggy Orenstein’s latest book, Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape, from her publicist at HarperCollins, I recalled another book of hers I really enjoyed, Cinderella Ate My Daughter. Here is a look back at...
