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 [...]
The Book: Possible Side Effects, by Augusten Burroughs
The Story: This is a book of essays by the same guy who wrote Running with Scissors. If you’ve read that, you have some idea of what to expect from him. If not, let me tell you.
This guy had a crazy (no seriously, his mom was in and [...]
The Book: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, by Donald Miller
The Story: Donald Miller grew up in a vaguely Christian environment, going to church and hearing the stories but never quite wrapping his head around it. This is the story of him fleshing it all out.
He kind of “comes to age” in Oregon [...]
The Book: Pregnancy Sucks: What to Do When Your Miracle Makes You Miserable, by Joanne Kimes
The Story: The story is simply this: Joanne got pregnant after months and months of trying. Joanne got whiny.
That’s basically it.
This book is set up in a month-by-month format, which is kinda funny because in the start of the book [...]
The Book: Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Child birth, by Jenny McCarthy
The Story: Former Playmate and host of that hilarious show on MTV (Singled Out?) gets pregnant. She and her husband had been trying for awhile, so she was excited but also totally shocked.
The book is set up in these short little [...]
The Book: What to Expect When You’re Expecting
This review is going to be a little bit different than my normal review set-up. The reason? I do not want to pass on any of the information that I got from this book. I don’t want to tell you the “story,” so I’ll just hop right to [...]
The Book: Honeymoon with My Brother, by Franz Wisner
The Story: Franz is kind of on top of his world: his girlfriend of 10 years is about to marry him, he has this high profile, great job and just a pretty nice set up. Within a week, his fiance calls off the wedding with people already [...]
The Book: Freakonomics; A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Story: Yeah, not much of a “story.” They even say in the introduction that the information presented doesn’t really have particularly clear ties to any of the other information. Each chapter kind of takes on [...]