January 10, 2012 – 8:52 am
The Book: The Late Bloomer’s Revolution, by Amy Cohen
The Story: Amy is thirty years old and unmarried and has no children and she has been fired from her job and can’t ride a bike. She starts to think that she’s old and washed up and decides to better herself.
What I Thought: Here’s the thing: I [...]
December 18, 2011 – 9:40 pm
The Book: Always Looking Up, by Michael J. Fox
The Story: After Michael J. Fox quit working on Spin City due to Parkinson’s, he was kind of depressed- day-to-day life was a struggle and after years and years in front of the camera, he felt bored and lonely. He decided to use his disease, his fame, [...]
November 9, 2011 – 10:25 am
The Book: Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle’s Memoir, by Edwin John Wintle
The Story: Tiffany is a semi-wild 13 year old living with her mom and brother and just causing trouble at every turn.
Edwin as an urbane, successful New Yorker who is 40 years old and pretty proud of where he is in his life.
When Tiffany’s [...]
September 29, 2011 – 8:31 am
The Book: The Story of My Father: A Memoir, by Sue Miller
The Story: Sue Miller, a well known novelist, is taken totally off guard when her reliable, wonderful father is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. It’s a hard pill to swallow for any child, but for Sue it seemed especially hard because he had always been the [...]
August 16, 2011 – 9:26 pm
Day #3. Today I babysat a friend’s 4 month old baby until the early afternoon and since then I’ve been cleaning and having fun with little ol’ Izey. We are headed out tonight for a little bit of alone time. Some friends are watching Isaac while we go get ice cream. Sounds like a dream! [...]
The Book: Girl Meets God, by Lauren Winner
The Story: Lauren was born into a kind of religiously-confused environment. Her mother was a Southern Baptist and her father was a Reform Jew. They kind of let her do what she wanted, religion-wise and she chose to become an Orthodox Jew.
As she grew up in the synagogue [...]
The Book: Ava’s Man, by Rick Bragg
The Story: After writing All Over but the Shoutin’, Rick Bragg was approached on multiple occasions and told that he just has to tell more about his family’s history.
In this book, he goes back another generation and delves into the life of his maternal Grandpa, Charlie and his wife [...]
The Book: Autobiography of a Face, by Lucy Grealy
The Story: When she was really young (9 or 10 I think) Lucy was diagnosed with a pretty horrible form of cancer. No one ever really told her flat out what was going on, but what she knew was that she had to go to the hospital [...]
The Book: Two Kisses for Maddy, by Matt Logelin
The Story: Two Kisses for Maddy is a memoir about how a 30 year old guy went from being a husband to being a father to being a widow all in just a few days.
Liz had a semi-complicated pregnancy and ended up on bed rest in the [...]
February 17, 2011 – 6:55 pm
The Book: Blankets, by Craig Thompson
The Story: This is Craig Thompson’s memoir of growing up in Wisconsin. With pictures and words he covers everything from sibling rivalry to his struggle with religion to his first love.
What I Thought: This was a re-read for me. I read this for the first time several years ago. It [...]