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  • Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out

    included a book each from these genres: faith-focused science fiction, young adult LGBTQ+ fiction, memoir When We Were the Kennedys is a memoir about grieving deeply, leaning on family and community in a crisis I loved this fantastic memoir! Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid.

  • Review of White Houses by Amy Bloom

    Bloom is also the author of the heartbreakingly beautiful In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss, Away, Lucky

  • Review of Blue Hour by Tiffany Clarke Harrison

    I initially thought I was hearing a narrator read a memoir.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/21 Edition

    published World War II-set story Beneath a Starless Sky; Nathanial Ian Miller's atmospheric novel The Memoirs the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II. 02 The Memoirs

  • Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads

    When We Were the Kennedys is a memoir about grieving deeply, leaning on family and community in a crisis I loved this fantastic memoir! Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid.

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

    in the background; a collection of three short stories by a favorite author; a vulnerable celebrity memoir Click here for my full review of So Late in the Day. 04 The Woman in Me by Britney Spears Spears's slim memoir In her memoir The Woman in Me, Britney Spears offers the story of her life to date: select events of

  • Review of After Annie by Anna Quindlen

    interested in books about mortality, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/26/24 Edition

    interested in books about mortality, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs

  • Review of Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor

    author of An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, Learning to Walk in the Dark, Leaving Church: A Memoir

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads

    01 In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom Amy Bloom writes with brutal honesty about her heartbreak In her memoir In Love, author Amy Bloom shares the story of an impossible situation: how she faced the 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 Reading memoirs centered around cancer is not always a go for me, but this book was special.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/1/23 Edition

    final moments, How to Say Goodbye focuses on the things we can potentially shape--including sharing memories of interest to you, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Powerful Memoirs

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/11/23 Edition

    interested in books about mortality, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/7/22 Edition

    young woman finding her way--and also, dragons; I'm reading Bob Odenkirk's conversational brand-new memoir So far, Odenkirk's memoir Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama is a conversational foray into his zigzagging route

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

    ; You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith's beautiful memoir about divorce and life; Go review of Romantic Comedy. 03 You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith Poet Maggie Smith's memoir Smith recounts her painful, prolonged divorce and her marriage, which was ending as she wrote this memoir

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/25/24 Edition

    Empress, Sisi, The Queen's Fortune, and The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, as well as the nonfiction memoir

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

    fiction, two historical fiction mysteries (one with magical elements at its heart), a fictionalized memoir Truth. 05 The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken McCracken straddles the line between novel and memoir The Hero of This Book straddles the line between fiction and memoir, as the letter feels deeply like The Hero of This Book is one way in which the author refuses to allow her many vivid memories of her

  • Review of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

    Cronin's debut takes place in a hospital's terminal ward and dips in and out of Margot's and Lenni's memories If you're interested in books that explore mortality, you might want to check out Six Powerful Memoirs

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

    click here for my full review of The Rom-Commers . 05 Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley Crosley's memoir In Sloane Crosley's memoir Grief Is for People , she explores life after the loss of her closest friend I was intrigued by Crosley's mindset and the dark humor, devastating grief, and powerful memories she

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/7/21 Edition

    alongside larger-than-life characters ranging from activists to performers and murderers to idealists; a memoir of Beautiful Ruins. 02 The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande The Distance Between Us is Grande's memoir

  • My Six Favorite Book Club Books of 2022

    Reading Lists Six Book Club Books I Loved Last Year and Six Book Club Books I Loved in 2021. 01 The Memoirs The pacing of The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven is measured, as befits a story that is largely about daily For my full review of this book, see The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven. 02 The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

  • Review of Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy

    wonderful When These Mountains Burn as well as Where All Light Tends to Go, The Weight of This World, and a memoir

  • The Bossy Five-Star Reads So Far This Year

    For my full review, check out Our Woman in Moscow. 02 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: how she faced the Reading memoirs centered around cancer is not always a go for me, but this book was special.

  • Review of Honor by Thrity Umrigar

    Umrigar is also the author of The Space Between Us, Bombay Time, and the memoir First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood.

  • Review of So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

    In doing so, he traces old memories and tracks down details from his childhood, reliving moments, piecing Maxwell wrote six novels and a memoir, Ancestors.

  • Review of The Celebrants by Steven Rowley

    about facing mortality, you might be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Powerful Memoirs

  • Review of The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

    atmospheric novels that center around affairs at the beach, but the book that kept coming to mind was the memoir I mentioned Wild Game in the Greedy Reading List Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In.

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

    I included an immersive memoir (check out my endless Greedy Reading Lists of memoirs for more in this In doing so, he traces old memories and tracks down details from his childhood, reliving moments, piecing I listened to Broken Horses: A Memoir by Brandi Carlile, and I can't imagine feeling the full emotions

  • Review of Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth

    The tone of the book is often playful--but dark humor often surrounds Libby's diminishing memory, and

  • Review of Landslide by Susan Conley

    Conley is also the author of the novels Kelsey Come Home and Paris Was the Place, as well as the memoir

  • Review of These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant

    Kimi Cunningham Grant is also the author of Silver Like Dust, a memoir about her Japanese-American grandparents

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

    coping with death, and how to live in the face of constant loss; You Can't Be Serious, actor Kal Penn's memoir my full review of How High We Go in the Dark. 03 You Can't Be Serious by Kal Penn Penn's thoughtful memoir Penn pulls his memoir into another gear when he adds the fascinating layer of accidental political activism

  • Shhh! Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays

    The Comfort Book is the newest book from Matt Haig, author of the novel How to Stop Time and the memoir Hussain has written multiple other cookbooks, the memoir Finding My Voice, and a trilogy of novels in

  • Review of Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin

    Harkin's fascinating debut speculative fiction considers a memory clinic that erases and reinstates memories The key memory and all connected elements are eliminated, presumably allowing these individuals to plow forms our idea of self and how much our idea of self forms our memory. they want to opt in to the chance to restore these memories. Meanwhile, a renegade psychologist at the memory recovery clinic begins reinstating memories at individuals

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

    For my full review, check out Maame. 02 Solito by Javier Zamora Zamora's memoir of his grueling journey perspective, which also serves to keep us focused on moment-by-moment sensations and concerns and makes the memoir Newman's lets the reader into Edi and Ash's rabbit warren of private jokes and moments and memories,

  • Review of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

    Those urging me to write my memoir will want a patriotic young woman who fought to defend her country

  • Review of Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

    in books about mortality like I am, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs

  • Review of The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

    Shirley Jackson wrote six novels, including We Have Always Lived in the Castle, two memoirs, and the

  • Six of My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    For my full review, check out The Night Ship. 04 Solito by Javier Zamora Zamora's memoir of his grueling perspective, which also serves to keep us focused on moment-by-moment sensations and concerns and makes the memoir

  • My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    Reading memoirs centered around cancer is not always a go for me, but this book was special. scene in Kabul with the vivid sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the past that reemerge in Sitara's memories full review, check out Our Woman in Moscow. 08 You Can't Be Serious by Kal Penn ​Penn's thoughtful memoir Penn pulls his memoir into another gear when he adds the fascinating layer of accidental political activism

  • Review of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

    Haig is also the author of The Midnight Library and his memoir-ish book that I'm reading now, Reasons

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

    young woman figuring out her place in the world, Mary Jane; and Dave Grohl's irresistible music-mania memoir Whether Sedaris is reliving specific, offbeat memories and mining them for poignancy and also laughs, I listened to Dave Grohl's memoir, in which he tracks his youth in Springfield, Virginia; through his

  • Review of Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

    story structure, dark humor, and deeply flawed characters as main protagonist Lucy works to resolve her memory murderous voice repeatedly creeps into Lucy's head, and the reader eventually determines whether these are memories and Savvy was being earnest in her desire to do away with certain characters, whether they're memories

  • Review of The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

    His mother died when he was young, and he has no memory of her. Ta-Nehisi Coates also wrote the memoir Between the World and Me.

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

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: a bitingly funny, poignant book of essays; a candid memoir I wasn't familiar with McCurdy when I began listening to her memoir, I'm Glad My Mom Died, although I

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

    most loved reading in May: Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You, Lucinda Williams's gritty, frank memoir by Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams offers a gritty, honest, captivating, spare yet fully developed memoir

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/15/21 Edition

    Shirley Jackson wrote six novels, including We Have Always Lived in the Castle, two memoirs, and the

  • Review of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre

    Another nonfiction spy book I found really interesting was Tracy Walder's memoir, The Unexpected Spy.

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

    reads of the past month, in no particular order: No Cure for Being Human, a funny, raw, thoughtful memoir Reading memoirs centered around cancer is not always a go for me, but this book was special. scene in Kabul with the vivid sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the past that reemerge in Sitara's memories

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/31/21 Edition

    Patricia Lockwood No One Is Talking about This is fiction from Patricia Lockwood, the author of the memoir

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

    fiction read, a feminist retelling of Greek mythology tales, and Michelle Zauner's powerful, beautiful memoir pacing of the book is appealingly quick and compelling. 05 Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner In her memoir

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