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My Formerly Hot Life: Dispatches From Just The Other Side of Young by Stephanie Dolgoff

Aug 12th, 2010 | By Sandy | Category: Memoirs

With chapters like: 1. Bitch-Slap Birthday, 3. Kept Women and 11. Vanity and Sanity, I just knew this was going to be my kind of reading.

The author takes you along with her as she discovers she is no longer…



The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun ~ Gretchen Rubin

Jan 30th, 2010 | By Sandy | Category: Memoirs

Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. “The days are long, but the years are short,” she realized. “Time is passing, and I’m not focusing enough on the things that…



The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Intimate Conversation ~ Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Nov 14th, 2009 | By Sandy | Category: Memoirs, Non-Fiction

 

For all Michael Jackson fans! This book is really a true to life “in his own words”  collection of private sessions with his spiritual advisor.  I thought it was deep, and telling of a Michael none of us could…



Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story ~ Sue Monk Kidd

Oct 9th, 2009 | By Sandy | Category: Memoirs

An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughter

Sue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair and with her…



Book Review: The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum ~ Rebecca Loncraine

Oct 7th, 2009 | By Sandy | Category: Memoirs, Non-Fiction

This summer was an important milestone for The Wizard of Oz as it marked the 70th anniversary of the film. The release of The Real Wizard of Oz by Rebecca Loncraine gives us yet another reason to celebrate Oz this…



Book Review: Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir ~ Leslie Gilbert-lurie

Aug 21st, 2009 | By Sandy | Category: Memoirs

A miraculous lesson in courage and recovery, bending Toward the Sun tells the story of a unique family bond forged in the wake of brutal terror. Weaving together the voices of three generations of women, Leslie Gilbert-Lurie and her mother,…



Super Fan by Tom Farley, Jr., and Tanner Colby, Authors of The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts

Aug 1st, 2009 | By Sandy | Category: Memoirs

chris farley cover imageCONAN O’ BRIEN, writer:
When Chris first got to the show, I met him hanging out in the conference room outside Lorne’s office. He was dressed kind of like a kid going to a job interview. We chatted for…



Book Review: The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts ~ Jr., Tom Farley

Jul 6th, 2009 | By Sandy | Category: Memoirs, Non-Fiction

Chris Farley was bigger than life. A very funny comedian that most people thought would go far. He was a religious person, something I didn’t know until I read the book. It was written with love remembering good and bad…



Book Review: The Ultimate Mom: Uplifting Stories, Endearing Photos, and the Best Experts' Tips on the Toughest Job You'll Ever Love (Ultimate Series) ~ Maria Bailey

Jun 9th, 2009 | By Sandy | Category: Memoirs

This book had so many different stories from so many different kinds of Moms, and from so many different times, they ranged from present time to way back in the fifties. And the funny thing is no matter what…



Book Review: Kinky Gazpacho By Lori L. Tharps

Jun 1st, 2009 | By Holly | Category: Memoirs

Lori Tharps grew up in the white suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, went to private school, attended a prestigious college, and continuously never felt a sense of belonging among her own people and a part of her own culture. While…



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