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  • How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir by Molly Jong-Fast

    Molly Jong-Fast's frank memoir explores her complicated, unsatisfying relationship with her famous mother How to Lose Your Mother is a poignant, sharp, darkly funny memoir of a challenging, volatile relationship About the Author--and More Memoirs Molly Jong-Fast is a journalist, political commentator, and the author For more Bossy reviews of memoirs, please check out the titles and lists at this link .

  • Review of Yearbook by Seth Rogen

    Easygoing Rogen's book of essays and memories touches on his start as a boy doing standup in bars, his I recently mentioned my memoir love (again) and how I've been drawn to memoirs by funny people lately Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year, Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In, Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite, and Six Powerful Memoirs about Or simply search "Memoir" in the Bossy search bar on each page of this site.

  • Review of I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying: A Memoir by Youngmi Mayer

    Mayer's memoir focuses on straddling two cultures without feeling fully integrated into either; the various stand-up comedian and podcast host, and she is intrigued by dark humor, aiming to inject it into her memoir Bossy memoir love Youngmi Mayer is a standup comedian and host of the podcasts Feeling Asian and Hairy For more memoirs I've loved, check out the titles and Bossy reviews at this link .

  • Review of Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

    Comedian Maria Bamford's memoir is unflinching in examining her own base impulses and personal challenges More Bamford and Other Memoirs Maria Bamford is also the author of Weakness Is the Brand , Unwanted Thoughts You might also want to check out these Bossy reviews of memoirs  I've read.

  • Review of Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy

    In Mother Mary Comes to Me , the author of The God of Small Things shares a memoir that in part explores More Memoirs, More India Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of For more Bossy reviews of memoirs please check out the titles at this link , and you can find Bossy reviews

  • Review of Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer

    I didn't know of the author before her memoir began garnering attention. Blood: A Memoir reads like her journal; Moorer sifts through memories, looks through photos, celebrates Regarding their talking through their past together, Moorer says, "So many memories we share and purposely Moorer's love of music (including her passion to write, sing, and harmonize) links many of these memories You might also like the list Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year.

  • Review of The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken

    McCracken straddles the line between novel and memoir in a work whose heart is a love letter to her extraordinary The Hero of This Book straddles the line between fiction and memoir, as the book feels like a deeply The narrator/McCracken states how much her mother detested memoirs, and The Hero of This Book even includes Perhaps you fear writing a memoir, reasonably. Invent a single man and call your book a novel. shares recollections and imagined current encounters with her mom, refusing to allow her many vivid memories

  • 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 perspective, which also serves to keep us focused on moment-by-moment sensations and concerns and makes the memoir

  • Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore

    Helena Smith is a neuroscientist creating technology to preserve memories and allow people to relive are not real, and that they’re actually mentally ill, suffering from False Memory Syndrome. When they encounter loved ones from their memories who are now living alternate lives, in many cases While Sutton begins digging into what’s real and what’s a lie, Smith works feverishly to preserve memories When he begins to have memory loss and other odd symptoms, he realizes it’s linked to his past time travel

  • Review of Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

    Ina's memoir is personal and thoughtful. specialty food shop in the Hamptons (and television show), Barefoot Contessa, offers a personal, charming memoir If you enjoy memoirs, you can find Bossy reviews of my favorites here . And check out some of my favorite foodie memoirs here .

  • Six Nonfiction and Memoir Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    Into Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore And you can click here for other memoir titles and here for more nonfiction titles I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. What are some of your recent favorite nonfiction or memoir reads? 01 Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora Zamora's memoir of his grueling journey from El Salvador to the I listened to Henry Winkler read his irresistibly candid, funny, and poignant memoir.

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

    I mentioned The Light of the World in my Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore. You might also be interested in the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing

  • Six Bossy Favorite Science Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    01 Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman #1) by Olivia Waite The playful tone and clever main protagonist For my full review of this book please see Murder by Memory. 02 Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz This Please check out my full review of Automatic Noodle. 03 Volatile Memory (Volatile Memory #1) by Seth crew on a quest (you can check out other titles with this theme that I've reviewed here), and Volatile Memory

  • Review of The Best of Me by David Sedaris

    Whether Sedaris is reliving specific, offbeat memories and mining them for poignancy and also laughs,

  • Review of All the Broken Places by John Boyne

    Haunted by the past and threatened in the present, Gretel shapes the novel with disturbing memories from Gretel's unwanted bond with the young boy downstairs brings memories flooding back from her own childhood

  • Review of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

    If you like to read memoirs, you might like to check out some of my Bossy memoir reviews , or some of my Greedy Reading Lists of favorites: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

  • My Six Favorite Books of the Year So Far

    Daphne's sister Leda and Daphne's husband Jonathan, but most often alone, Eddie and Daphne revisit old memories childhood and the pivotal events that led up to her cherished stepfather's departure, with revised memories visits, calls and check-ins from his son Hans, short walks with his beloved elkhound Sixten, and vivid memories His wife, who suffers from dementia, is in a care center, and his memories of her pop up in painful, In Ridzén's novel, while the past and Bo's many memories begin to become more vivid and realistic to

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/18/24 Edition

    the first book in Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines mystery trilogy, Pines ; I'm listening to Ina Garten's memoir secret agent Ethan Burke wakes up in a strange place, by a river, horribly bruised and in pain--with no memory As his memory comes back to him in pieces, he recalls that his mission--before a devastating car crash of her former specialty food shop in the Hamptons, Barefoot Contessa, offers a personal, thoughtful memoir

  • Six More Mysteries I Loved Reading Last Year

    inexplicable and complicated occurrences, and speculation about unfathomable possibilities in this novel about memory She has a perfect memory: she's able to recall events, surroundings, and information down to the finest She is found face down and unconscious in Prospect Park, with no memory of what has occurred . Dr. dissociative fugue, a rare condition that could account for her ability to act and function but recall no memory Please click here  for more Bossy reviews of books about memory. 06 Heartwood by Amity Gaige Amity Gaige's

  • Review of The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld

    My own memories receded and the book memories became the real memories, far more than the outside, far

  • Review of What In the World?! A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings by Leanne Morgan

    Comedian Leanne Morgan's memoir traces her path from an attention-seeking, beloved young girl to a young But her memoir also traces her youth (when she imagined that she would find fame in some way), her first This is a relatively short memoir, and if you're already a fan of Leanne Morgan's, you'll likely enjoy Are you a fan of memoirs? What about celebrity memoirs? You can find Bossy reviews of other memoirs--and Greedy Reading Lists of my favorites by theme-- here

  • Review of Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young

    and a front-row view of the misogyny and gaslighting she experienced in the military in this powerful memoir For more more more memoirs that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality

  • Review of Lucky Loser: Adventures in Comedy and Tennis by Michael Kosta

    Michael Kosta when I began reading this book--I'm out of date on my Daily Show viewing-- but I love memoirs More Books about Comedy and Memoirs For more Bossy reviews of books about comedy, check out the titles And for more memoirs I've loved, take a look at these titles .

  • Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite

    If you like memoirs, check out these Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists: Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year, and Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality And which other books should I add to my food memoir to-read list? and dense that you can eat only a little bit, and then it is over and the knaffea is just a pleasant memory—like Wizenberg "When Molly Wizenberg's father died of cancer...she went to Paris, a city that held vivid memories

  • Review of Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

    Wilf, whose wife is losing her memories at the same time vivid memories of past events come rushing back I mentioned Dani Shapiro's fascinating memoir Inheritance in the Greedy Reading List Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In. Shapiro is also the author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage; Devotion: A Memoir; and other books.

  • Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into

    Do you love memoirs like I do? Memoirs I've Read This Year (last year). I'd love to hear: What are your favorite memoirs? 01 Here For It by R. Regarding their talking through their past together, Moorer says: "So many memories we share and purposely This memoir was more than I'd hoped for.

  • Review of Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson

    Wilson overcame tough childhood circumstances before setting her sights on becoming a performer, and her memoir I love to listen to the audiobook version of a memoir (if you haven't yet, you might want to check out the many stand-alone memoir reviews and memoir-focused Greedy Reading Lists  I've posted on Bossy Bookworm A friend recommended actress Rebel Wilson's memoir Rebel Rising , and I listened to the Australian's

  • Review of Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison

    More memoir love I received a prepublication edition of the 656-page Lorne courtesy of Random House For more memoirs you may like, please check out the reviews of various titles at this link .

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/5/25 Edition

    Me ; and I'm reading Olivia Waite's slim science fiction-mystery, the first in a series, Murder by Memory Part of Your World , Yours Truly , The Friend Zone , and The Happy-Ever-After Playlist . 03 Murder by Memory

  • Review of What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts) by Stanley Tucci

    Stanley Tucci is also the author of the cookbooks The Tucci Table and The Tucci Cookbook, as well as the memoir

  • Review of Frog: The Secret Diary of a Paramedic by Sally Gould

    Gould's memoir of her life as a paramedic is frank, captivating, often revolting, and disarmingly honest Sally Gould's memoir is named after a darkly humorous term of affection for paramedics in Australia ( In her memoir, Gould explores her early days of uncertainty, moments of panic, scenes of complete disgust might also be interested in Bossy reviews of books involving medical or health elements, or in Bossy memoirs

  • Review of 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

    This classic memoir is told through letters between Hanff, living a passionate reader and writer's life wonderful book The Correspondent , Virginia Evans mentioned another epistolary book, the 1970 classic memoir The memoir's back-and-forth gems illuminate the evolving wartime struggles of British citizens such as The correspondence is only half Hanff's, but this epistolary memoir structure and its rich content allow

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/9/26 Edition

    reconnected stepfather and stepdaughter who are dear to each other; I'm listening to Lena Dunham's newest memoir Their deep connection is immediately evident once again, and they revisit old memories, compare notes audiobook version of this novel courtesy of Libro.fm and Harper. 02 Famesick by Lena Dunham In her new memoir

  • 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 For more more more memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists : Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite

  • 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 Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

  • Review of The Last Hour Between Worlds (Echo Archives #1) by Melissa Caruso

    and Kembral tentatively take steps toward a truce, and they're two of the only people retaining their memories world-building, in which things are similar to yet different from earlier versions, creatures lose their memories

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/20/26 Edition

    debut novel about an adult daycare center, Upward Bound ; and I'm listening to Christina Applegate's memoir This is a brutally honest memoir, and in the audiobook Applegate repeatedly sobs as she shares her painful memories and experiences. You might also want to check out these Bossy reviews of other celebrity memoirs .

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

    I listened to Henry Winkler read his irresistibly candid, funny, and poignant memoir.

  • Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore

    More Memoirs I've Loved I find a good memoir irresistible, whether it's made up of key moments from the Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year, Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In, Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite, and Six Powerful Memoirs about How many memoirs is too many memoirs, you may ask? Dear reader, the limit does not exist! Which other books should I add to my memoir to-read list?

  • March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    McCurdy's unique voice came through loud and clear in her personal, unflinching memoir I'm Glad My Mom visits, calls and check-ins from his son Hans, short walks with his beloved elkhound Sixten, and vivid memories His wife, who suffers from dementia, is in a care center, and his memories of her pop up in painful, In Ridzén's novel, while the past and Bo's many memories begin to become more vivid and realistic to The correspondence is only half Hanff's, but this epistolary memoir structure and its rich content allow

  • Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore

    More Memoirs I've Loved I find a good memoir irresistible, as evidenced by the bajillions of memoirs : Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality How many memoirs is too many memoirs, you may ask? Which other books should I add to my memoir to-read list?

  • December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: a book that plays with time, a book that plays with memory clinic that erases and reinstates memories at clients' requests, the impact of painful experiences on The key memory and all connected elements are eliminated, presumably allowing these individuals to plow I was captivated by the various situations, secrets, how memory is connected to a sense of self, and the complicated web of memories, experience, personality, and hopes and dreams that make us who we are

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/21/22 Edition

    and I'm reading Tell Me an Ending, Jo Harkin's speculative fiction about the purposeful erasing of memories Harkin Jo Harkin's speculative fiction Tell Me an Ending is about a tech company that erases unwanted memories When people around the world are notified that they have requested and have had specific memories removed Meanwhile, a psychologist at a memory recovery clinic begins reinstating memories at individuals' requests

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/23/21 Edition

    and to overcome personal tragedy; The Wreckage of My Presence, comedian and actress Casey Wilson's memoir-ish Casey Wilson, actress (Happy Endings), comedian (Saturday Night Live), and writer, shares essays and memories

  • Review of Pines (Wayward Pines #1) by Blake Crouch

    secret agent Ethan Burke wakes up in a strange place, by a river, horribly bruised and in pain--with no memory As his memory comes back to him in pieces, he recalls that his mission--before the devastating car crash

  • 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 you're interested in this title, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Musicians' Memoirs

  • Review of King Nyx by Kirsten Bakis

    The gothic story King Nyx offers haunting imagery, sinister mysteries, unreliable memories, resurfacing Meanwhile mysteries from Anna's experiences in the Fort household seem held together by crucial gaps in memory

  • Review of Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

    McConaughey mines his decades of diaries, lived experiences, memories, and other frequently unexpected

  • 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 Smith recounts her painful, prolonged divorce and her marriage, which was ending as she wrote this memoir ' Memoirs that Sing Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality

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

    I listened to Perry's memoir as an audiobook. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? For memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Musicians ' Memoirs that Sing Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality

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