Kathleen Angelone’s Story Archive

Book Review: Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life

April 3, 2014 | by Kathleen Angelone

Baby Boomers have comprised a huge blip moving through American demographics and culture.  We expanded maternity wards and schools, changed workplaces and are now remodeling late middle age and retirement.  We are the first generation to have a reasonable probability of living longer after the end of our first career … Read More

Book Review: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

February 20, 2014 | by Kathleen Angelone

In Karen Joy Fowler’s new book, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, narrator Rosemary Cooke begins her story in the middle, when she is pulled into a kerfuffle and disturbs the peace in the  cafeteria of her California university. After her arrest, Rosemary’s father  solves the immediate problem. But he … Read More

Book Review — Fighting for Equality: A Life of May Wright Sewall

January 23, 2014 | by Kathleen Angelone

In 1874 at age 30, May Wright Sewell moved to Indianapolis with her husband to teach German at the Indianapolis High School. A life spent teaching and molding the lives of young women would be accomplishment enough. But it wasn’t enough for May. She went on to become one of … Read More

Book Review: The Spirit Keeper by K.B. Laugheed

November 21, 2013 | by Kathleen Angelone

by Kathleen Angelone, Bookmamas Born the unlucky thirteenth child in an Irish family building a new life on the American frontier, Katie O’Toole’s life was filled with toil, misery and little hope. At the same time, Indian Holyman Syawa dreams of Katie, the Creature of Fire and Ice, in a … Read More

Book Review: Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn

November 14, 2013 | by Kathleen Angelone

The vintage black and white cover photo shows a clean cut young teen in a suit — it looks like the Easter Sunday picture seen on many a family mantel. Instead of church, though, he’s dressed for a court appearance. Everyone of a certain age knows about the horrific crimes … Read More