Memoir

Aug 23

Six Illuminating Memoirs to Check Out

Memoir Love! In case you haven’t noticed yet, I have a major thing for memoirs, and I especially love listening to an author read their...

Aug 8

Review of Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson

Wilson overcame tough childhood circumstances before setting her sights on becoming a performer, and her memoir celebrates her...

Jun 7

Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing

Musicians' Must-Read Memoirs I'm a biiiig memoir fan, and I love behind-the-scenes peeks. These six memoirs from musicians offer stories...

Jun 4

Review of Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley

Crosley's memoir traces a treasured friendship and the gutting loss of that dear friend. She's vulnerable enough to allow the reader in...

May 17

Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into

Do you love reading memoirs like I do? I love digging into the story of someone's life--notable because of chance, circumstance, or...

Dec 5, 2023

Review of The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

Spears's slim memoir offers vulnerability, the shocking details of her now-infamous 13-year conservatorship, self-reflection, and her...

Nov 8, 2023

Review of They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies that Raised Us by Prachi Gupta

In her memoir, Gupta explores the stressful, tragic disconnect between the "perfect minority" image her father demanded of the family and...

Oct 31, 2023

Review of Being Henry: The Fonz...and Beyond by Henry Winkler

Winkler is candid, charming, self-deprecating, and delighted by life and his experiences. I loved listening to him read the audiobook of...

May 25, 2023

Review of The Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander

ICYMI: Poet Elizabeth Alexander writes a gorgeous account of her love affair with her husband and the trauma of his sudden death in a...

May 24, 2023

Review of Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith

ICYMI: Smith evokes a vivid sense of the regional South in her fiction, and in this memoir she traces her Appalachian youth, offering...

May 23, 2023

Review of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams offers a gritty, honest, captivating, spare yet fully developed memoir in which she explores her musical influences and...

Apr 13, 2023

Review of You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith

Poet Maggie Smith's memoir traces the end of her marriage, weaving in the history and the future while she acknowledges that any story is...

Apr 12, 2023

Review of Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

Perry recounts the daily reality of his years in a chokehold of addiction to drugs and alcohol, his struggles to quit using, and the many...

Mar 3, 2023

Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

Six Favorite Memoir Reads The Bossy memoir love continues! I've been posting roundups of my favorite reads from last year by genre. I...

Feb 7, 2023

Review of Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora

Zamora's memoir of his grueling journey from El Salvador to the United States without family at age nine keeps the reader within each...

Jan 31, 2023

Review of Nothing Like I Imagined (Except for Sometimes) by Mindy Kaling

This is a funny, light, self-deprecating peek into Kaling's single motherhood, dabbling in Hinduism, love of brunch, life as a producer,...

Jan 26, 2023

Review of Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young

Young offers a brutally honest behind-the-scenes look at the systematic abuse she suffered in The Children of God cult and a front-row...

Jan 24, 2023

Review of The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman

Newman's recollections and insights are brutally honest and unforgiving. Interviews with family, friends, and coworkers shed light on the...

Jan 17, 2023

Review of The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama

I listened to this audiobook and highly recommend immersing yourself in Michelle Obama's voice as she shares calm, wise, funny, or...

Dec 28, 2022

Review of Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono

Thoughtful, self-deprecating, earnest, and honest, Surrender is a captivating peek into the four decades (and counting) of U2. Bono...

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