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Book Review: Debut novel ‘Fireweed’ explores the danger in complacency

By RACHEL S. HUNT
Apr 28, 2025 12:16 pm - Poverty, misogyny and racism take a front seat in Lauren Haddad’s “Fireweed,” which reflects themes of self-discovery and disenfranchisement through a fictional medium. A feeling of women’s powerlessness invades the book, overwhelming and inescapable.
Book Review: ‘Awakened’ is a breath of fresh air in the world of modern magic novels

By DONNA EDWARDS
Apr 28, 2025 10:58 am - Wilder wakes up one day suddenly able to speak and understand every language. But what seems like a wicked-cool ability turns out to be overwhelming in the endless stream...
Book Review: From incels to trad wives, culture critic probes 21st-century backlash against feminism

By ANN LEVIN
Apr 28, 2025 10:52 am - Sophie Gilbert, a London-based staff writer for the Atlantic magazine, has taken a survey of the Anglo-American pop culture landscape, and her findings aren’t pretty. In ...
Naperville Writers Group names winners of high school writing contest

Submitted by Thomas Guzman
Apr 22, 2025 11:19 am - Naperville Writers Group announces high school writing contest winners in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction categories. Winners received cash prizes and publication.
Book Review: ‘Hope Dies Last’ visits visionaries fighting global warming

By JEFF ROWE
Apr 22, 2025 9:52 am - Alan Weisman has found an all-world cast of scientists, engineers and environmentalists who have dreamed big and worked passionately to repair some of the world’s wrecked...
Book Review: How would Joan Didion feel about her therapy session notes being published as a book?

By ANITA SNOW
Apr 21, 2025 2:08 pm - Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having her personal notes from a series of painful therapy sessions converted into a book after her death.
St. Charles Public Library hosts third annual poetry reading

Submitted by St. Charles Public Library
Apr 15, 2025 2:58 pm - To celebrate National Poetry Month, the St. Charles Public Library invites the community to a poetry reading on Friday, April 25.
Naperville leaders partner with woman’s club to ‘Drop Everything and Read’

Submitted by Susan Stockton
Apr 15, 2025 2:50 pm - On April 12, the Naperville Woman’s Club’s encouraged everyone to “Drop Everything & Read.” This date was chosen as it’s also the birthday of the beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary.
AAUW honors local student authors

Submitted by Anita Walls
Apr 15, 2025 1:55 pm - The Batavia-Geneva-St. Charles AAUW branch proudly continues its tradition of encouraging and honoring aspiring young writers through its Creative Writing Contest. This ...
Book Review: Mark Synnott heads ‘Into the Ice’ to chase the maritime mystery of Sir John Franklin

By ROB MERRILL
Apr 14, 2025 3:58 pm - Mark Synnott admits in the introduction to his new book that “it is out in the high and wild places in this world that I’ve always felt the closest to whoever it is that ...

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