- Sep 18, 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 13, 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 12, 2020
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...
- Aug 9, 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.
- May 4, 2020
Review of Open Book by Jessica Simpson
A mostly guileless look at stardom, motherhood, alcohol abuse, and finding herself.
- Mar 26, 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.