By Sheila Smith Corvallis Writer Her blog Clicking UU Life Book review of “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined” by Steven Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker combines the enjoyment of a sudoku puzzle and a Grafton thriller: seeing patterns and finding […]

Evelyn Donnell, La Grande Poet since Childhood Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol has been around, over a hundred years. It was made into Hollywood movies, scripted for stage plays, copied on CDs, appeared in comic strips; read in elementary schools, in college classes, and most impressive, laid in state in West […]

Christine Webb Beaverton book lover “Favorite Book” Writing Contest Winner. $50.00 Mystery Category Prize. Reviewing the book Gothic Spring, by Portland Author Caroline Miller. My favorite book?  It is, without a doubt, the mystery “Gothic Spring” by Portland-based, Oregon author Caroline Miller.  I’ve read this novel three times in the […]

Sherry Meyer, Milwaukie writer Her blog, Found between the covers “Favorite Book” Writing Contest Winner. $50.00 Religion Category Prize. – Check Thursday for the final winners. Review of the book When Mockingbirds Sing by Billy Coffey When Mockingbirds Sing is the epitome of the book which leaves you wishing there […]

Joan Callander West Linn writer Visit her website “Favorite Book” Writing Contest Winner. $50.00 Self-Help Category Prize. – Check in every Tuesday & Thursday for the next winners! Review of author Susan Cain and her book “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking” Martin Luther […]

Ramona Scarborough Salem author of “Stranger Friends” &  “The Autograph Book” “Favorite Book” Writing Contest Winner. $50.00 Romance Category Prize. – Check in every Tuesday & Thursday for the next winners! The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys. Surprisingly, this slim, lilac bound gem has become one of my five top […]

Heidi Cox, Beaverton Oregon Author of Just Moms: Conveying justice in an unjust world “Favorite Book” Writing Contest Winner. $50.00 History/Biography Category Prize. – Check in every Tuesday & Thursday for the next winners! Bonhoeffer:  Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy By Eric Metaxes Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived each day of his short […]

Book reviewed by Lynn Leissler Eagle Point “Favorite Book” Writing Contest Winner. $50.00 Wild Card Category Prize. – Check in every Tuesday & Thursday for the next winners! Book Reviewed: The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman No matter how just a war may be, its ramifications send ever-widening […]

Women’s Report is now Book Report! When we started Women’s Report five years ago we had no idea that our biggest fans would be writers & booklovers. We also did not know that these Oregon writers shared a giant common problem. Publishers told them that their books would go nowhere […]

By Rebekah Schneiter, Out Numbered Blog Unbroken, is by far the best book I’ve read all year, if not in the last few years. I want to see this title at the top of the New York Times Best Seller List as a way that we as a country and […]