Tall Poppy Writers

Tall Poppy Review: One Summer Alters Life’s Course in “The Last Bathing Beauty”

A former beauty queen faces the secrets of her past — for herself and the sake of her family's future — in The Last Bathing Beauty by Amy Sue Nathan (Lake Union Publishing), a heartfelt novel about fate, choices and second chances. It’s the summer of 1951, and pretty 18-year-old…

Susan MeissnerApril 9, 2020

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10 Ways to Keep Reading Groups Fresh & Engaged in These Weird Times

Maybe your group has successfully migrated to Zoom, or are social distancing in someone’s bigggggg backyard. Or maybe you’ve temporarily disbanded or gone on hiatus. Or perhaps, you’re kind of limping along and a teensy bit bored and totally miss getting together in person and having things be, for lack…

Kelly SimmonsNovember 26, 2020

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Tall Poppy Review: “In a Book Club Far Away” There Lives a Once-Beautiful Friendship

Book clubs and friendships go together like peas and carrots, chocolate and peanut butter, and toddlers and mud puddles. Secrets get shared, food and wine are enjoyed, and maybe a book is discussed, but let’s be honest, that last part is secondary. The focus is on friends getting together on…

Amy ReichertApril 8, 2021

Better Self Nonfiction

Tall Poppy Review: Saying Goodbye to the Imprisonment of Self-Improvement

Karen Karbo awoke to her usual dread. It was 5 am, and she was already behind. She still had to meditate, exercise, drink a kale smoothie and practice affirmations, just for a start. Then, of course, she had to lose weight and bullet journal. She had to find an app…

Sandra BlockJuly 16, 2020

Better Self Nonfiction

Tall Poppy Review: You’re Not Alone in “The Trying Game”

Trying to get pregnant is exhausting, especially when it seems like everyone around you gets pregnant when a brisk breeze passes over their partner’s genitals. When struggling to get pregnant, the uncertainties and challenges can make you feel isolated: the doctor appointments, the injections, the unsexy sex. No matter what happens, it…

Amy ReichertMay 28, 2020

Better Self Nonfiction

Tall Poppy Review: Insightful and Empowering Essays in the Wake of #MeToo

Katie Rose Guest Pryal’s Even If You’re Broken (Blue Crow Books) is a collection of essays. It says so right on the cover. I expected, then, that the book would not be one narrative, but rather, many. But as I was reading, I was struck by how seamless the book…

Amy ImpellizeriMarch 26, 2020

Better Self Nonfiction

Tall Poppy Review: Considering Mental Health in Academia

The opening of Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education (Raven Books) says, “This is a book about mental illness and academia. But this is also a book about so much more than that: it’s about grief and friendship, and collegiality, and accessibility,…

Kate MorettiMarch 7, 2019

Better Self Business Nonfiction

Tall Poppy Review: Freelance-a-Lot with Dr. Pryal

Many people eschew the label “freelancer,” believing it projects the image of a low-level worker typing away in their parents’ basement. But if you’re an untenured academic, chances are you’re already a freelancer—even if you don’t identify as one. And the sooner you embrace your status as a one-person business,…

Camille PaganJune 13, 2019

Fiction

Tall Poppies Review: “Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties” Is an Empowering Story of Womanhood and Identity After 20

This is the question that permeates Camille Pagan’s heartwarming, humorous, and thoughtful book, Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties. Maggie Halfmoon has never questioned her identity. She stopped being a social worker years ago after a physical threat on the job. But her husband Adam was more than happy to take…

Sandra BlockMarch 1, 2018

Fiction

Underneath A “Perfect” Marriage In Psychological Thriller “Best Day Ever”

At BookTrib, we are constantly searching for the best ways to connect readers with writers, opening their eyes and worlds to fresh ideas! This is how we came across a wonderful group known as the Tall Poppies, who are not only avid readers, but extremely talented writers as well! On a…

Kate MorettiSeptember 21, 2017

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Thin Ice Between Guilt and Acceptance

Imagine being the sole survivor of an incident at a frozen lake that claims your brothers in its icy depths. The emotional baggage and survivors' guilt one would carry on a daily basis would feel insurmountable. Best Lightburn, the protagonist of Nicole Blades' The Thunder Beneath Us (Kensington), has had…

Aimie K. RunyanMay 23, 2019

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Capturing a Time, an Emotion, and Your Attention

There’s so much to love about a novel that gives us insight into what it was like to be a woman during a certain time in history. Even better if that time was pivotal, unforgettable and hovering on the brink of seismic shifts that will leave the world forever changed.…

Jessica StrawserJuly 22, 2021

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Three Sisters, One Wedding Planning Business, All the Drama

In Tif Marcelo’s charming new novel, The Key to Happily Ever After (Gallery Books), she explores the delicate, yet iron-clad bonds of sisterhood by introducing readers to the de la Rosa sisters, three Filipino women who take over their mom’s wedding planning business. Eldest sister Marisol, takes over as the…

Amy ReichertJune 27, 2019

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: A Quirky, Lovable Protagonist You’ll Root For

This Won't End Well (Lake Union), Camille Pagán's new release, is a must-read for anyone who knows the value of some me-time. Or a lot of me-time. When it comes down to it, Annie Mercer is just your ordinary average science genius, working as a housecleaner, spying on her neighbors and…

Kelly HarmsFebruary 27, 2020

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: “The Man She Married” Shocks

There are many ways to write about being in a coma, the shock, the helpless entrapment, and the frightening numbness and silence, but then there is Cathy Lamb's way, with bewilderment, with laugh-out-loud humor, and with chilling fear of why things have gone wrong. In The Man She Married, (Kensington)…

Weina Dai RandelNovember 1, 2018

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: The Last Honest Politician in Washington

Nietzsche once wrote “Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions,” explaining without a trace of judgment how humans became animals who thrive on lies. Amy Impellizzeri has accomplished a similar feat, using fiction this time. In her latest novel, Why We Lie (Wyatt-MacKenzie) Impellizzeri demonstrates just how much…

Katie PryalMarch 14, 2019

Tall Poppy Review: One Summer Alters Life’s Course in “The Last Bathing Beauty”

10 Ways to Keep Reading Groups Fresh & Engaged in These Weird Times

Tall Poppy Review: “In a Book Club Far Away” There Lives a Once-Beautiful Friendship

Tall Poppy Review: Saying Goodbye to the Imprisonment of Self-Improvement

Tall Poppy Review: You’re Not Alone in “The Trying Game”

Tall Poppy Review: Insightful and Empowering Essays in the Wake of #MeToo

Tall Poppy Review: Considering Mental Health in Academia

Tall Poppy Review: Freelance-a-Lot with Dr. Pryal

Tall Poppies Review: “Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties” Is an Empowering Story of Womanhood and Identity After 20

Underneath A “Perfect” Marriage In Psychological Thriller “Best Day Ever”

Tall Poppy Review: Thin Ice Between Guilt and Acceptance

Tall Poppy Review: Three Sisters, One Wedding Planning Business, All the Drama

Tall Poppy Review: A Quirky, Lovable Protagonist You’ll Root For

Tall Poppy Review: “The Man She Married” Shocks

Tall Poppy Review: The Last Honest Politician in Washington

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