#memoir

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...

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.

Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/12/20 Edition

01 Surrender Your Sons This summer stinks. Teenage Connor's elderly friend died, his boyfriend talked him into coming out, and now his...

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.

Review of Open Book by Jessica Simpson

A mostly guileless look at stardom, motherhood, alcohol abuse, and finding herself.

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.

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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