Book Review
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Book Review
“THE LOVE MAP by Carol Lynn Pearson” —Reviewed by Rachel Rueckert
The Love Map is a short but mighty novel with a lovely message, no matter in which of the four kingdoms a reader might most often find herself.
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“EAST WINDS by Rachel Rueckert” — Reviewed by Nancy Ross
Rueckert breaks new ground by centering her marriage, her struggle with the Mormon understanding of marriage, and her year-long global honeymoon journey.
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“Breaking the Silence” by Katie Ludlow Rich
Book Review of I Spoke to You with Silence: Essays from Queer Mormons of Marginalized Genders (edited by Kerry Spencer Pray, Jenn Lee Smith)
As...
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“Book of Mormon Stories I Wish My Teacher Told to Me” by Kristen Campbell
Book review of The Book of Mormon For the Least of These, Vol. 2 by Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming
I have taught...
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“Inhabiting Church as Women of Color Across Mexico, Botswana, and the United States” by Rachel Rueckert
Book Review of Caroline Kline’s Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness (University of Illinois Press, 2022)
Caroline Kline’s book,...
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“Light at the Water’s Edge of Language” by Rachel Rueckert
Review of The Brain’s Lectionary: Psalms and Observations by Elizabeth Pinborough
Elizabeth Pinborough’s The Brain’s Lectionary: Psalms and Observations (BCC Press 2022) is a poignant...
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“Beyond the Mapped Road of Storytelling” by Rachel Rueckert
Book review of Rosalyn Eves' Beyond the Mapped Stars
Beyond the Mapped Stars by Rosalyn Eves (Knopf, August 2021) is a powerful coming-of-age story about...
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“Ninety-Nine Refiner’s Fires” by Rachel Rueckert
Book review of Allison Hong Merrill's Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops
Abusers hate nothing more than when those they’ve harmed speak up. If we evaluated books based...
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“Faith in Mormon Women’s Memoirs” by Nancy Ross
Book review of Katie Langston's Sealed
In a short essay for BYU Studies Quarterly (2015, 183—197), scholar and author Angela Hallstrom noted that “Mormon...
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Illuminating Ladies: A Second Edition
Since the Church’s founding nearly 200 years ago, our unique history and culture has produced and attracted a remarkable array of women who have...