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Category Archives: Memoir
Review: Lust & Wonder: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
I squealed with joy when I learned Augusten was releasing a new memoir. I devoured both Running with Scissors and Dry, not shying away with the brutal manner in which the author details his life. I began reading as soon as I had the … Continue reading
Review: Son of a Gun by Justin St. Germain
Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Random House (August 13, 2013) ISBN-10: 1400068622 Source: Publisher In September of 2001, when the mother of twenty-year-old Justin St. Germain is murdered at the hands of her fifth husband in Tombstone, AZ, it is written … Continue reading
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Audio Book Review: Elsewhere by Richard Russo
Listening Length: 7 hours and 32 minutes Program Type: Audiobook Publisher: Random House Audio Release Date: October 30, 2012 Source: Library Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo follows eight tremendous works of fiction with a truly rewarding memoir of his life in … Continue reading
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Review: Giving Up the Ghost: A Story about Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted by Eric Nuzum
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback (August 7, 2012) ISBN-10: 0385342438 Source: Publisher Eric Nuzum grew up in Canton, OH in the 1980s. As a high school student, he never really fit in, an oddball of sorts. Not … Continue reading
Review: In My Father’s Country by Saima Wahab
Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Crown (April 24, 2012) ISBN-10: 0307884945 Source: Publisher Saima Wahab was just three years old when her father was arrested by the KGB at their home in Kabul, Afghanistan. This was the last time she would … Continue reading
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Frightful Friday: A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of A Murder by Karen Spears Zacharias
Frightful Friday is a weekly meme in which I feature a particularly scary or chilling book that I’ve read that week. This week’s featured book is actually a memoir, somehow making it even more chilling: A Silence of Mockingbirds: The … Continue reading
Review: This Life Is In Your Hands by Melissa Coleman
Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (April 10, 2012) ISBN-10: 0061958336 Source: Publisher In the late 1960s, Melissa Coleman’s parents, Eliot and Sue, gave up their life in regular society to move to a rural rugged coastland in Maine. … Continue reading
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Review-Girls Like Us: A Memoir by Rachel Lloyd
Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (February 28, 2012) ISBN-10: 0061582069 Source: Publisher Rachel Lloyd, after winding up as a victim of commercial sexual exploitation as a teen, eventually breaks free of this life, striving to help other girls in a … Continue reading
Review: Huck by Janet Elder
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Broadway; Reprint edition (October 4, 2011) ISBN-10: 0767931351 Source: Publisher Michael was a preschooler when the pleas for a dog began. He went as far as creating a PowerPoint presentation covering the reasons why he needed a dog. Despite … Continue reading
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Review: Cocktail Hour Under The Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
Hardcover:256 pages Publisher:Penguin Press HC, The (August 23, 2011) ISBN-10: 1594202990 Source: Publisher In the sequel to Fuller’s Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, which Fuller’s family refers to as “the Awful Book”, the author once again returns to … Continue reading
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