

Review of Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
Gagne never experienced emotions the way other kids did, and when she grew older, while acting out, lying, stealing, and fighting violent...
4 days ago


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 frustrations, injustices, and...
6 days ago


Review of Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison
Lorne is a thorough, 650-page look at Michaels's creation of and steering of SNL . What I found most fascinating were the...
7 days ago


Review of The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt's examination of the power of smartphones and social media may feel logical and disturbingly unsurprising, but he offers...
Mar 12


Review of Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today by Cynthia and Sanford Levinson
Cynthia and Sanford Levinson, a noted children's author and a constitutional scholar, have created a fascinating nonfiction book for...
Feb 26


Review of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
I had unreasonable hopes for gaining compassionate understanding of disparate political views through reading Haidt's book. I was...
Feb 13


Review of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley
Met Museum guard Bringley reflects on the decade he spent guarding priceless works of art, encountering a fascinating range of...
Dec 5, 2024


Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In
More Memoirs I've Loved I love a good memoir, one that offers a glimpse or a deep dive into the life and pivotal experiences of another...
Oct 25, 2024


Review of What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts) by Stanley Tucci
The gems of What I Ate in One Year are, as promised in the title, the food-related moments Stanley Tucci delves into over the course of...
Oct 22, 2024


Review of Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story by Max Marshall
Among the Bros is a disturbing true story of increasing greed, shocking carelessness with human life, drug addiction, tragic turns and...
Sep 18, 2024


Review of Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley
Crosley's memoir traces a treasured friendship and the gutting loss of that dear friend. She's vulnerable enough to allow the reader in...
Jun 4, 2024


Review of The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion by Barbara Brown Taylor
Barbara Brown Taylor is one of my favorite authors, but this slim, early book of hers didn't offer the candid, thought-provoking, wise...
May 23, 2024


Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into
Do you love reading memoirs like I do? I love digging into the story of someone's life--notable because of chance, circumstance, or...
May 17, 2024


Review of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
This gorgeously written set of fifty-two love letters to nature encourage reflection and urge the reader to pause to honor even the less...
May 9, 2024


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 seems appropriate now that we have...
May 3, 2024


Review of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande writes clearly and poignantly about the search to achieve maximum well-being rather than prolonging diminished life at all...
Jan 10, 2024


Review of Madame Restell by Jennifer Wright
Madame Restell is compelling nonfiction about an ambitious feminist in pre-Gilded Age New York and her profession as a surgeon offering...
Dec 6, 2023


Review of They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies that Raised Us by Prachi Gupta
In her memoir, Gupta explores the stressful, tragic disconnect between the "perfect minority" image her father demanded of the family and...
Nov 8, 2023


Review of The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber
"Success here means knowing how the system works and who pays what and why. It is about figuring out what is worth paying extra for--and...
Oct 11, 2023


Review of Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be by Frank Bruni
"Does a prestigious college make you successful? Or do you do that for yourself?" But for every person whose contentment and fulfillment...
Oct 10, 2023