The Seaboard Review: February 24, 2025
Date Volume 2, Issue 8
Hello, TSR Subscriber!
It’s the last February issue, next week will usher in March (lamb or lion?) and Spring will be on the minds of people across this great land. Which also means a busy spring and summer release season. We have a lot of good titles covered by our team, check out this week’s offerings below. Clicking on a review will take you to the full article on our website.
Featured Review
Your Roots Cast a Shadow: One family’s search across history for belonging by Caroline Topperman
Your Roots Cast a Shadow is a blend of past and present. The author deftly draws connections between her family’s past, beginning in the interwar years of 1920s Poland, her grandparents’ youth, her parents’ struggles, and her own life. The book also draws connections between these generations and how political and historical events of the past affected …
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Fallosophy: My Trip through Life with MS by Ardra Shephard
Ardra Shephard’s Fallosophy: My Trip through Life with MS is a sharp, darkly funny, and unapologetically honest exploration of life with multiple sclerosis. Best known for her blog Tripping on Air, Shephard brings the same irreverence to her memoir, pairing pointed critiques of systemic failure with a keen awareness of how disability shapes her experien…
The Sea Flower by Ruth Moore
In a recent review for *The Seaboard Review*, author Emily Weedon commented “…drinking from a firehose of gloom and despair in the real world makes reading about a fictional world of gloom and despair repetitive and such works do not galvanize me—they freeze me into catatonia.”
Bowness’ Book Offers Advice for Freelancers
For Suzanne Bowness, a layoff years ago turned out to be the springboard to a new calling as a freelance writer and editor. In The Feisty Freelancer: A Friendly Guide to Visioning, Planning, and Growing Your Writing Business, Bowness shares what she’s learned during twenty-plus years of freelancing.
Other TSR News
Saint’s Rest Book Launch!
March 1st, The Write Cup, Market Square, Saint John NB.
Thanks for reading this issue of The Seaboard Review!
James M. Fisher, editor-in-chief