The Book: Stalking the Divine, by Kristen Ohlson
The Story: One Christmas, Kristen Ohlson wondered into a Catholic church in Cleveland. She had wondered away from any type of religion for years and just wanted to go to church on Christmas. It turns out that this Catholic church has a cloister of nuns called the Poor [...]
The Book: The Children’s Blizzard, by David Laskin
The Story: On January 12, 1888, everyone in the Plains woke up to above average temperatures and sunny skies. It had been really cold for weeks, so everyone got outside while they could. Kids went to school, farmers went to town, yadda yadda. A lot of people didn’t [...]
The Book: Callie’s Tally: An Accounting of Baby’s First Year or What My Daughter Owes Me!, by Betsy Howie
The Story: Betsy Howie is in her late 30’s when she finds out she is pregnant. She’s pretty thrilled. She reads somewhere that it’s like 190,000 bucks to raise a kid from birth to 18 and she [...]
The Book: Columbine, by Dave Cullen
The Story: This is the true story of the attack on Columbine in 1999. I’m sure that everyone that was old enough to be in school remembers the day of the attack and the days following- all of these stories and rumors that surrounded the whole deal. This book’s main [...]
The Book: The Girlfriends’ Guide to Pregnancy: On Everything your Doctor Won’t Tell you; by Vicki Iovine
The Story: Kind of just another pregnancy “tell all.” The idea behind this one is that it’s a lot of compiled information. The author has talked to tons of her “girlfriends” and gotten the real lowdown on pregnancy, from [...]
The Book: A Million MIles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life, by Donald Miller
The Story: Six or seven years ago, Donald Miller kind of rose to Christian stardom after his memoir Blue Like Jazz got super, super popular. I guess a while later, some guys came to Donald and asked [...]
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: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, by Hunter S. Thompson
The Story: Thompson and his Samoan attorney have, “two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, [...]
The Book: Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach
The Story: The title kind of says it all. The author went on this big journey to find out what happened to bodies that were donated to science. She had kind of figured (and I had to) that most of them ended up in [...]