The Review Broads Bros + Paws

I Will Send Rain Author: Rae Meadows Reminiscent of The Bridges of Madison County, with a slice of Steinbeck’s grim itinerants of California, and a treble not of Flannery O’Connor’s depressing realism, Rae Meadows surprises and embraces us with her second novel, I Will Send Rain. It’s 1934 in Mulehead, Oklahoma, a small farming community beset with a 77 day and counting drought, horrid dust storms and crop failure.  The land is the novel’s backdrop: as the dust consumes the crops and ... continue reading...

I’ll pick the teapot anytime! Check out ATMAN TEA COMPANY with The Review Broads! I feel renewed when I drink Jasmine tea, and when the Atman Tea Company offered me a sample of their Jasmine Green Tea to review, I swooned.  I use tea not only in my teacup but often in my bathwater for a soothing, well scented bath time treat. The ingredients in Atman Tea Company’s Jasmine Green Tea are two: Ashwagandha root and Jasmine green tea.  The ashwagandha root has a fascinating history as I read ... continue reading...

Being a Beast Author: Charles Foster Alluring.  Ethereal.  Other worldly.  Mythic, mandatory, factual, philosophical.  Oh, and Charles Foster should be married to a dictionary!! Such great writing! And such solid inquiry into cross species “beingness” (sentience).  Being a Beast is one of those special once in a great moon books that held me in thrall.  As I escaped past the last page, I felt so utterly sad that I jumped back into the first page again.  As Foster lives, literally and ... continue reading...

Under the Stars Author: Dan White (author of The Cactus Eaters) How America Fell in Love with Camping Stepping into a novel or a book creates a relationship, an emotional attachment, a release, a gathering of information previously unknown, an uplifting of good and positive or uneasy and negative emotion or both.  It leaves us with an impression as well as a feeling. Dan White’s easy going availability as he prowls the wild lands and parks and forests of our nation creates a space for us ... continue reading...

In the Darkroom Author: Susan Faludi Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and it shows.  In the Darkroom is a kind of memoir, a kind of salutation of what identity means to our culture, and a mostly intrepid journey into the world of her father.  At seventy six, her father decides to have a sex change operation.  He has moved from Hungary to the United States and returned in his older age to Budapest.  He was a ferocious and isolated father, and he was Jewish, which he tried ... continue reading...