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  • Six Bossy Favorite Memoir Reads of the Past Year

    Six Favorite Memoir Reads These were my six favorite memoir reads from last year. of my Greedy Reading Lists of favorites: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year If you've I love reading the stories of lives lived, so I frequently read memoirs. But an endless logistical to-do list following his death kept her busy and delayed her grieving.

  • Six Favorite Nonfiction and Memoir Reads of the Year

    Six Nonfiction Reads I love mixing nonfiction into my reading lists--and oh, the memoirs! my Greedy Reading Lists of favorites: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year If you've If you're interested in books about mortality like I am, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality  and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality

  • Review of Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop by Jeannine A. Cook

    Cook's voice shines through in this memoir of conversations with and deep inspiration around deceased I've read many memoirs, and Shut Up and Read  was unlike any I've encountered before. I listened to Shut Up and Read courtesy of Amistad and Libro.fm . More Books You Might Like I listened to Shut Up and Read courtesy of Amistad and Libro.fm . Please also check out these Bossy reviews of other books about books and memoirs you might enjoy.

  • Review of Memorial Days: A Memoir by Geraldine Brooks

    Memorial Days  is Geraldine Brooks's memoir of sudden loss, delayed grief, and a delving into sorrow But an endless logistical to-do list following his death kept her busy and delayed her grieving. Australian island--where she had once considered settling down--to sit with Tony's journals, dive into her memories , rage against what she's lost, and give in to sorrow. I listened to Brooks's lovely Australian accent by reading this as an audiobook.

  • Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite

    I love a memoir, I love reading about people doing what they love, I love good food, and I love reading The books listed here are some of my favorites in this category. If you like memoirs, you might want to also check out these Bossy Bookworm reads and Greedy Reading Lists And which other books should I add to my food memoir to-read list? So this second listing is actually evidence of my restraint.

  • Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

    Six Favorite Memoir Reads The Bossy memoir love continues! Did you read any favorite memoirs last year or have you read any new favorites this year? And 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 I prefer listening to my memoirs read by the author, and I loved hearing U2's songwriter and lead singer

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

    Six Great Bossy Nonfiction Reads I promise that this is the last roundup list of 2023 favorites, which You can find some of my many other lists of favorite nonfiction and memoir roundups here: Six of My Favorite Nonfiction Reads from the Past Year Six Compelling Nonfiction Reads Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive You might also be interested in the titles on my Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants I listened to Henry Winkler read his irresistibly candid, funny, and poignant memoir.

  • Review of Awake: A Memoir by Jen Hatmaker

    Jen Hatmaker's memoir explores her shock, grief, then growth after the end of her marriage, which she If you've read any of Jen Hatmaker's writing, you're likely familiar with her passionate loyalty to and I listened to Awake as a library audiobook. More More More Memoirs! I love reading the stories of lives lived, so I frequently read memoirs. stories of famous or little-known people's lives, you might want to check out these Bossy reviews of memoirs

  • Review of Care and Feeding: A Memoir by Laurie Woolever

    I listened to this memoir as an audiobook. Bossy Foodie Memoir Favorites You might also be interested in the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite .

  • Review of Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden

    I was intrigued by this fast read; I finished it in a day and a half. More More More Memoirs You can find other memoirs I've read and reviewed, including multiple lists of

  • Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into

    Do you love reading memoirs like I do? If you love memoirs, you might also like the titles I listed on these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Fascinating 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 For my full review of this book, see Notes on a Silencing. 03 In Pieces by Sally Field Here's the list's

  • 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 That said, I have a tough time reading memoirs in which someone is fighting cancer, and this one may I listened to the audiobook, read wonderfully by Emily Woo Zeller, with an afterword by Yip-Williams's

  • Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing

    Musicians' Must-Read Memoirs I'm a biiiig memoir fan, and I love behind-the-scenes peeks. For more more more memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out some of 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 I often feel torn when I read celebrity memoirs, because while I understand that people must keep some

  • Review of Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne

    Her self-examination leads her to shape her life's work toward helping those who share her experiences The memoir is structured with the engaging pacing of a novel--danger, discovery, redemption, and hope I listened to Patric Gagne read Sociopath as an audiobook; it's an upcoming read for my book club. More memoir love If you're looking for more Bossy reviews of memoirs--which I almost always listen to as audiobooks read by the author--please check out these books .

  • Six Powerful Memoirs About Facing Mortality

    This is a departure from many of my more playful Greedy Reading Lists: witchy books, young adult favorites If you like memoirs, you might like the books I list on these Greedy Reading Lists: 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 of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year Have you read books about mortality--or memoirs that aren't on

  • Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In

    For more memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into and Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year . Which other books should I add to my memoir to-read list? It's a book listing each of the books Paul has read to date. the paralyzing, never-ending, constantly expanding list of titles that make up a to-read list: “At this

  • Review of Cher: The Memoir, Part One by Cher

    In the first installment of Cher's two-part memoir, she traces some of her ancestors' pivotal stories I listened to Cher as an audiobook. Cher reads the beginning of each chapter herself, before bowing out due to the strains of reading with won a Tony for portraying Cher in the musical The Cher Show , and who has a somewhat similar voice), reads Memoir love For more Bossy reviews of memoirs I've loved--and there are a lot of titles on this site

  • Is This the Perfect August Reading List?

    list that may collectively be the perfect array of books to get you through the end of the summer: a practically perfect rom-com; the immersive memoir you didn't know you needed; weird, funny, wonderful What makes a perfect summer read for you? Are there any books you'd like to read before fall? Early on, the memoir felt like more of a factual account of what occurred in her life than it felt like Please click here for my full review of Cher: The Memoir. 03 Weird, Funny, Wonderful Nonfiction: The

  • Review of This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg

    Her memoir is candid, poignant, funny, and always entertaining. I love an honest memoir that lets a reader into the author's inner world, and Zarna has lived a fascinating I laughed out loud repeatedly while I was reading this charming memoir by this strong, funny woman. More memoir love For more memoirs you might like, please check out these Bossy reviews as well as Greedy Reading Lists of my favorites .

  • Six Powerful Memoirs About Facing Mortality

    This is a departure from many of my other Greedy Reading Lists: witchy books, young adult favorites, Other books on my to-read list that loosely fit within this category include: If you like memoirs, you might like the books I list on these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into and Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year (last year). Have you read books in this vein that you'd recommend?

  • 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 I listened to I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying as an audiobook. 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 .

  • 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 I was of course thinking about this book you are now, for better or worse, reading. 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 .

  • Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into

    If you love memoirs, you might also like the titles I listed on these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Fascinating Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie to-read list that I'm particularly excited about are: Pretty Baby by Chris Belcher; Raising a Rare Girl For my full review of this book, see Notes on a Silencing. 03 In Pieces by Sally Field Here's the list's I loved it and I'd read another book by her in a second.

  • 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 Reading Sure, I'll Join Your Cult requires diving in on her voice and unflinching, examining point of 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 The Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander

    Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander writes gorgeously about Ficre Ghebreyesus, the husband she lost Reading his widow's account of life with Ficre made me feel deeply connected to him. 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

  • 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 Solito is one of my book club's reads for this spring, and I'm listening to it as an audiobook. The trip lasts seven weeks and involves challenge after challenge. perspective, which also serves to keep us focused on moment-by-moment sensations and concerns and makes the memoir You might also like the books I listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Books about the Immigrant

  • 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

  • Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing

    For more more more memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself I listened to Lynne and Moorer's joint album, Not Dark Yet, while reading this book, and it was a beautiful I often feel torn when I read celebrity memoirs, because while I understand that people must keep some I listened to Dave Grohl's memoir, in which he tracks his youth in Springfield, Virginia; through his

  • Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite

    The shout-out: this Greedy Reading List theme was suggested by my lovely longtime friend, fellow book I therefore love memoirs written by chefs and by people who are obsessed with food, and the books listed If you like memoirs, you might want to also check out these Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists: Six Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In And which other books should I add to my food memoir to-read list?

  • 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 That said, I have a tough time reading memoirs in which someone is fighting cancer, and this one may I listened to the audiobook, read wonderfully by Emily Woo Zeller, with an afterword by Yip-Williams's

  • Review of The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller

    So you must make the best choices you can, knowing they may lead you astray, but proceeding boldly lest The pacing of The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven is measured, as befits a story that is largely about daily The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven is Nathaniel Ian Miller's first novel. If you like books set in the unforgiving cold, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings to Read by the Fire .

  • 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 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

  • Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore

    For more more more memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Which other books should I add to my memoir to-read list? For historical fiction about female spies, you might want to check out the Greedy Reading List Six Books If you like books about music, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories

  • Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore

    For more more MORE memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year, Six More Illuminating Have you read any of these books? I'd love to hear what you thought. Which other books should I add to my memoir to-read list? I loved listening to her fantastically raspy voice as she read her memoir in audiobook form--and she

  • Review of Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu

    Hsu's memoir remembers his friend Ken, who was tragically killed during college. the two bonded and became close in the way that college friends do--through making mix tapes, taking road out a film starring the two of them, and developing a shared passion for a movie (in this case, The Last Stay True in order to cope with his loss, explore the concept of belonging, face his own grief, and memorialize Over the course of many years, the author sorted through his feelings and memories, cherishing a folder

  • Review of Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair

    Her love for her son and the peace she has found in parenting him with her ex are lovely to read about 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 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 Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

    #memoir, #faith, #dysfunctionalfamily, #fourstarbookreview, #leavingthewitness 02 The Unexpected Spy ​ That said, I have a tough time reading memoirs in which someone is fighting cancer, and this one may For my full review of The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything that Comes I began reading Know My Name because I thought I should, not because I wanted to. #memoir, #fourstarbookreview, #openbook What are the most interesting memoirs you've read recently?

  • Review of In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom

    In her memoir In Love, author Amy Bloom shares the story of an impossible situation: the pending loss wonderful White Houses (stay tuned for that upcoming review, ICYMI), as well as other books I haven't yet read I listed other heartbreaking and beautiful memoirs about facing death and loss in the Greedy Reading List Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality, and Kate Bowler's No Cure for Being Human is another excellent book about facing mortality and was a five-star read for me.

  • Review of A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir by Colin Jost

    I do like a thoughtful memoir if I can get it, and in A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir, Colin Jost offers I enjoyed listening to Jost read the audiobook (and enjoyed his many compelling pitches for buying the Memoirs have been hitting the spot for me during Pandemic Times even more than usual. I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, #memoir, #nonfiction, #threestarbookreview

  • Bossy Summer Reading Break

    In case you missed it, on Friday I posted what I think might just be the perfect summer reading list If you haven't already, please check out Is This the Perfect Reading List for August? search or peruse titles on the blog by category, rating, or theme--or dive into one of hundreds of Greedy Reading Lists of books I've loved. Whether you're into time travel, memoirs, historical fiction mysteries, riveting nonfiction, witchy tales

  • Review of Famesick by Lena Dunham

    In her new memoir, the creator of the series Girls explores the years in which she went from an unkown I listened to an audiobook library version of this title through Libby. Other Memoirs You Might Like You might also want to check out these Bossy reviews of other celebrity memoirs or these lists of favorite memoirs the years I read them: this one and also this one.

  • Review of You with the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate

    Applegate's memoir is more focused on her personal life than her acting, which has created structure Applegate was open about her breast cancer diagnosis years ago, although in her memoir she laments having This is a brutally honest memoir, and in the audiobook, which is read by Applegate, the author repeatedly More Memoirs You Might Like You might also want to check out these Bossy reviews of other celebrity memoirs or these lists of favorite memoirs the years I read them: this one and also this one.

  • Review of Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir by Bob Odenkirk

    Bob Odenkirk's memoir digs into fascinating elements of process, creativity, and collaboration, and he know Odenkirk from his role as the sleazy lawyer with a heart in the show Breaking Bad, or from his lead If you like memoirs, you might want to check out this Greedy Reading List, Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore--which links to six more memoir lists for you to dig into! (That's forty-two Bossy memoir suggestions for those of you as obsessed with memoirs as I apparently

  • Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In

    My to-read list of memoirs is so long it's crushing and overwhelming, but some of those I'd like to read For more memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Which other books should I add to my memoir to-read list? It's a book listing each of the books Paul has read to date. the paralyzing, never-ending, constantly expanding list of titles that make up a to-read list: “At this

  • One More List of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year

    last year, this is my fourth list of favorites in that genre. You can find the first list of my historical fiction favorites here , and you'll find Six More of My My third list is here . If you've read any of these books, I'd love to hear what you think! For more North Carolina stories, check out the books on this Bossy list . If you like books about World War II and women spies, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading

  • Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into

    Do you love memoirs like I do? If you love memoirs, you might also like the books I listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year (last year). A few other recent-ish memoirs on my to-read list that I'm particularly excited about are: Reasons to For my full review of this book, see Notes on a Silencing. 03 In Pieces by Sally Field Here's the list's

  • Three Memoirs I'm Reading Now, 10/7/20 Edition

    Blood: A Memoir is said to read like a personal journal. Have you read some captivating memoirs lately? We are still in pandemic-era no-late-fee dreamland, but the memoirs I greedily put on my holds list are If you like memoirs, you might also like to take a look at the Greedy Reading List Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year.

  • 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

  • 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 I listened to What in the World?!  as an audiobook read by the author. It felt important to be able to picture her likely and funny facial expressions as I heard her read this 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 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 I listened to this as a library audiobook. 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

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