by Linsey Stevens | Aug 30, 2019 | Editor’s Bookshelf
After a month off from book reviewing, I’m back and happy to be reviewing a children’s book that feels very at home alongside Iphelia: Awakening the Gift of Feeling. What initially attracted me to Maybe Dying is Like Becoming a Butterfly, which feels well-suited to...
by Linsey Stevens | Jul 31, 2019 | Editor’s Bookshelf
In my May review of Reading Through the Night, I reflected on my decision to review an already published book despite my attachment to this feature’s purpose: chiming in on soon-to-be-published titles. Two months ago, it felt hard to do that. My ego was very caught up...
by Linsey Stevens | Jun 30, 2019 | Editor’s Bookshelf
I started this book after returning from a week in Mexico—a week spent almost entirely outside save sleeping hours. From wandering the native mangroves and dodging sargassum in the ocean to climbing one of the ancient Mayan pyramids at Coba during a light drizzle,...
by Linsey Stevens | May 28, 2019 | Editor’s Bookshelf
Some of us are very attached to our best-laid plans and expectations. Not getting what we want, what we believe we worked for and earned, can be a tremendous blow to the ego. It can leave us feeling, on the one end of the spectrum, miffed and irritated—scrambling for...
by Linsey Stevens | Mar 31, 2019 | Editor’s Bookshelf
This month has probably been the busiest of my life, which makes my decision to review Dear Time, Are You On My Side? by today—March 31—even sweeter. As I read this book, a compilation of blog post-esque chapters written by a wildly diverse group of women, I was also...
by Linsey Stevens | Feb 28, 2019 | Editor’s Bookshelf
February: For many of us it’s a cold month during which we’re longing for sunlight and bombarded with cultural expectations related to romantic love, from boxed candies and floral arrangements to candles and lingerie. One of the things I’ve related to love from a...
