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Pearl, MD: The Way West by Marie Bartlett (Book Review #73)

The way of the West begins right where we were left off. Pearl is a physician in the nineteenth-century society. This was when women were not welcome to have a profession. African Americans are also treated poorly. Healing them as a patient is unacceptable… Continue Reading “Pearl, MD: The Way West by Marie Bartlett (Book Review #73)”

Beauty & Attention by Liz Rosenberg (Book Review #11)

  Summary “The riveting story of one brave young woman’s struggle to free herself from a web of deceit.   For misfit Libby Archer, social expectations for young women in Rochester, New York, in the mid-1950s don’t work. Her father has died, leaving her… Continue Reading “Beauty & Attention by Liz Rosenberg (Book Review #11)”