Today is Mary Donahue’s birthday! That’s right, born April 13, 1963, Mary — the protagonist in Winter Light — turns 59 today. She’s...

When I was a kid, I loved reading Scott O’Dell’s 1960 Newbery Medal Award-winning novel Island of the Blue Dophins. Forever after, the...

All right, so the “must read” in this list featured on Bookglow — “all about books, all of the time” — is probably an exaggeration. But...

Today I’m recommending My Year of Magical Thinking and Joan Didion’s other works today in honor of her death on Dec. 22 at the age of 87....

I never tire of memoirs. I love learning about people and experiences that are vastly different than my own. That and there are so many...

There are so many books on the market, it’s hard to know what to read. That’s why I tend to look for lists that are curated. Judges take...

As a writer, I do so much research on such a wide variety of topics that I wonder if I’m on any national security organization’s watch...

5TH BOOK TO BE PUBLISHED! THURSDAY I’m stoked to announce my fifth book, a historical novel titled The Falcon, the Wolf and the...

by Wren Godfrey Chapman NOTE: You can also find this review on Goodreads. I love memoirs where adventurous women grab life by the horns,...

While doing research, I happened upon a really wild event that occurred during my youth, but that I never heard of, the Chowchilla...

Yesterday I sent out a newsletter offering a Kindle copy of these two fantastic new memoirs. Recommend your favorite memoir(s) below and...