

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/20 Edition
01 The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren Christina Lauren is the pen name for Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, who write as a team....
Nov 25, 2020


Review of Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes by Jessica Pan
Pan is wonderfully honest, appealingly thoughtful, and often so so funny. I was so happy spending time in her point of view throughout...
Nov 2, 2020


Review of Wild Life by Keena Roberts
Roberts reflects upon her identity and place in the world in a raw and genuine way that I found gripping. Keena Roberts grew up splitting...
Oct 26, 2020


Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/22/20 Edition
01 The Exiles Christina Baker Kline, who authored Orphan Train (which I really liked) and A Piece of the World (which I loved), tells the...
Oct 22, 2020


Review of Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer
Blood reads like an unflinchingly honest journal; Moorer sifts through memories, photos, joyful moments; she feels rage, sadness, and loss.
Oct 15, 2020


Review of The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
Wizenberg struggles to reconcile her identity, sexuality, love, and duty into an honest lifestyle.
Oct 12, 2020


Three Memoirs I'm Reading Now, 10/7/20 Edition
01 Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs, Roberts 02 Blood: A Memoir, Moorer 03 The Fixed Stars, Wizenberg
Oct 7, 2020


Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year
01 Leaving the Witness In Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life, Amber Scorah takes the reader into her confidences...
Sep 18, 2020


Review of A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir by Colin Jost
Colin Jost retraces his journey toward and through his fifteen seasons at Saturday Night Live and offers insights that I found absorbing.
Sep 13, 2020


Review of The Beauty of Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper
Harper is appealingly centered despite upheaval in her life, but I didn't feel drawn into her admittedly interesting experiences.
Aug 8, 2020


Review of Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Miller is a beautiful, powerful writer with clear arguments and a compelling story of her own.
May 24, 2020


Review of Open Book by Jessica Simpson
A mostly guileless look at stardom, motherhood, alcohol abuse, and finding herself.
May 3, 2020


Review of In Pieces by Sally Field
I found Sally Field's discussion of her "craft" and how she grew and changed as an actor to be the most compelling aspect of the book.
Mar 25, 2020


Review of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
There's a beautiful exploration in this book of dying, death, appreciating the beauty of the impermanence of our lives and living life fully
Mar 21, 2020


Review of The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything that Comes After
This book is Yip-Williams's powerful farewell to her family, but it's also valuable for anyone considering meaning in their own life.
Feb 15, 2020


Review of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
Vance shares his unlikely, circuitous route to an emotionally and financially stable adult life. In Hillbilly Elegy, Vance mainly shares...
Jan 23, 2020


Review of Leaving the Witness by Amber Scorah
In Leaving the Witness, Amber Scorah takes the reader into her confidences and lays bare her sheltered experiences, religious...
Jan 13, 2020


Review of Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
Wong’s reflections on growing up, the influence of her Asian culture, and starting out and making her way in comedy were the highlights for
Jan 5, 2020


Review of The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life... by Tracy Walder
I love a peek at a secret world, and here Walder offers fascinating glimpses of her life as a CIA and an FBI agent.
Jan 1, 2020


Review of I've Seen the End of You: A Neurosurgeon's Look at Faith, Doubt... by W. Lee Warren
Warren digs deeply into the realities of doubting his faith, God, his life’s work, and his vision of an afterlife. This book made me cry...
Oct 24, 2019
