by Susan Lovell | Jan 7, 2021 | Book Reviews, History
While Christian manger scenes usually feature the three Wise Men at the stable where Jesus had just been born, the Christian church believes differently. The often present camel reminds viewers the Magi came from Persia, India, and Arabia—all far from Bethlehem. Thus...
by Susan Lovell | Dec 30, 2020 | Book Reviews, History
I’m not a devotee of essays and I’d never heard of Brian Doyle. But when my almost-cousin Genie said I must read Doyles’ new book of said essays, I knew she could be trusted. And, boy, could she! A distinguished novelist honored by the American Academy of Arts and a...
by Susan Lovell | Oct 17, 2019 | Book Reviews, History
I finished The Matriarch, a biography of the late First Lady Barbara Bush with a fresh respect for her. But, contrarily, I finished the book with a hugely diminished respect for her predecessor, First Lady Nancy Reagan. I half wish I hadn’t read the book by Susan Page...
by Susan Lovell | Oct 2, 2019 | Book Reviews, History
If my name were Lady Gaga, LeBron James, Tom Brady, Oprah Winfrey, or Lady Gaga, my novel The Cameron Womenwould have been published with one phone call to a New York publisher. If I committed mass murder, same thing. Even if I just ran naked in front of the White...
by Susan Lovell | Sep 20, 2019 | Book Reviews, History
I picked The Parisianby Isabella Hammad off the East Grand Rapids Library’s “New” shelf for a specific reason. The jacket made it clear this was a novel about “a pivotal period in Palestinian history.” I should have been intimidated by the six long lists of...
by Susan Lovell | Sep 10, 2019 | History
Talk about “It takes a village,” how about an entire community! In 2007 after two opioid deaths in two weeks—30 deaths over the year—the people in the small town of Fraser on the east side of Michigan were scared and angry. That’s when Christ United Methodist Church...
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