Category: Books
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Catholic Culpability in Adoption
Let me begin by admitting that it’s taken me two months to write this. In early September, I read The Price of Children: Stolen Lives in a Land Without Choice by Maria Laurino, an Italian American journalist whose cousin adopted…
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Season of Reading
Since 2016, I’ve made a “commitment” at the beginning of each year to read fifty books. And if you assumed that I put that word in quotes because I haven’t managed to fulfill my promise to myself, you are correct.…
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The Value of the Written Word
Those who follow me here may know that I run a website called Adoptee Reading that catalogs books on adoption either written by or recommended by adopted people. I’ve had some ideas rolling around in my mind lately for how…
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Thoughts on Wake Up Little Susie by Rickie Solinger
This past month, I finally got around to reading Wake Up Little Susie by Rickie Solinger, a book that has been highly recommended in the adoption community. The book’s focus, though, isn’t adoption, but rather the ways in which unmarried…
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It’s Here!
There’s something very satisfying about opening a box fill with copies of your own book. It’s the culmination of many months of thinking and writing and worrying and revising. Now, here it is, a physical product ready to be sent…
Karen Pickell: Between 