Susannah Cahalan’s memoir, Brain on Fire, went on my To Read List immediately following a review I read here on CBR7. A junior reporter for the Post begins having personality changes, mood swings and forgetfulness- symptoms she blames of having a cold, or the flu. When her symptoms persist she calls her gynecologist; she recently changed her birth control and is hoping what she is experiencing is related. She gets an MRI but there isn’t anything abnormal in her test results, however she returns to […]
You can’t escape the past
The Luckiest Girl Alive was another recommendation via Reese Witherspoon’s Instagram page; once again the woman has excellent taste in novels. The Luckiest Girl has “With cunning and verve of GILLIAN FLYNN but with an intensity all its own” written in huge letters on the front cover, and while drawing comparisons between Flynn and new female authors is getting a bit played out, this was the book I felt most merited the comparison. Like Flynn, Jessica Knoll has a female narrator with a dark past […]
A Family Affair
This is not your typical celebrity memoir. “All I know is that I am the product of all the experiences I have had, good and bad, and if I am in a happy place in my life (as I truly am), then I can have no regrets about any of the combination of events and circumstances that have led me to the here and now.” Not my Father’s Son is the story of Alan Cumming’s time filming Who Do You Think You Are? in the […]
Nothing to Envy Here…
I could not put this one down; normally when I read non-fiction I intersperse my evening reading with fluffy memoirs or popcorn fiction but despite the difficult subject matter I read this one in two nights. Barbara Demick spent numerous years in Seoul covering both Koreas for American articles; in that time she formed relationships with North Korean defectors and began piecing together what eventually became Nothing to Envy. Six defectors are interviewed and their stories are woven together to create a multi-dimensional picture of […]
Summer Popcorn Reading
I know I’ve read Spoiled but I really didn’t remember it when I started on its sequel. Luckily Messy has a lot of recapping so it’s easy to pick up without having read the first novel, or picking it up with very little memory of the first one. Max is a high school student who is trying to save money for a writer’s program at NYU. Her best friend, Molly, is the long lost daughter of movie star Brick Berlin whose other daughter, Brooke, is […]
Clean Sweep
Another book I borrowed from Badkittyuno but somehow managed to write my review first. This means I get to tell you about our Uncle Frank before she does too. When I was about 10 my family and I went up to Chicago; my uncle had fallen, he never had people over and all our family had migrated out of Illinois years ago- it was his dog who woke him up. While he was in the hospital my parents had to clean his house, the house […]
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