The Book: Cash: The Autobiography of Johnny Cash, by Johnny Cash
The Story: This is the story of Johnny Cash told by the man himself. While it isn’t exactly set up chronologically, he still includes stories from his childhood right up through 1997 when this book was originally published.
In this book, Johnny Cash tells the truth [...]
The Book: The Idiot Girls’ Action Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life, by Laurie Notaro
The Story: There isn’t really a story here, so much as a collection of essays (and that is to intellectual a word… I don’t know what to call them) about random stuff happening in this woman’s life. [...]
The Book: Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, by Jon Krakauer
The Story: This was a story that was all over the news a couple of times. First, Pat Tillman made the news by giving up his easy-peasy life as a pro football player to join the Army after 9/11. Later, it was [...]
The Book: The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
The Story: This is an autobiographical graphic novel of a teenage girl growing up in Iran during the revolution of ‘79. There was a lot about death and war and the veil, and tough stuff, but there were also big chunks about crushes, normal teenage rebellion, secret parties [...]
The Book: The Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King, by Lisa Rogak
The Story: This is an unauthorized biography of Stephen King. She said within the book that while Stephen King didn’t do interviews with her, he didn’t object to her writing the biography and told his friends and family members to go [...]