This is the best celebrity memoir I’ve ever read. Now, I’m probably biased because I went into this already loving Craig Ferguson from watching him on The Late Late Show, but he did in his book everything that a book like this should do. He was funny, sincere, and his honesty is that of the ‘warts and all’ persuasion. In fact, showing those warts is the whole point of the book, which he opens by stating, concerning his son, “He will know from an early […]
Learning About Prison the Best Way–Vicariously
I watched only a bit of Orange is the New Black on television before I lost interest. I couldn’t connect with the main character, and I found the storyline a little troubling. I couldn’t understand why we needed a rich, white woman to tell us about prison, and the humor of it hit me the wrong way. But the show continued to grow in popularity, and I continued hearing about it. And then I noticed the book, Orange is the New Black (2010) by Piper […]
A memoir that left me with mixed feelings
My first non-romance review of the year, and it’s a book I have not been able to view positively. I often avoid bestsellers like the plague until I have a friend who’s book opinions I trust tell me to try it (like Station Eleven, I’m listening to it now, it’s a-mah-zing!). So why did I read Wild? Well, I moved ~6 months ago to this charming area almost three thousand miles from all my friends, but thankfully near my sister. And therefore I work (too […]
Don’t Call Her A Legend
Betty Halbreich is who I want to end up being. She’s 86, no longer cares what anyone thinks, has 12 closets of gorgeous, classic clothing, and is the founder of Bergdorf-Goodman’s personal shopping service. I’ve been to BG once, was so intimated with how posh it is that I walked in one door and went right back out the next. I’m less dainty society woman and more bull in a china shop, but I love beautiful things. So does Betty, which is a big basis […]
Stranger Than Fiction – An Unflinching Memoir
I recall seeing a very passionate recommendation for this book in the comments section of a Pajiba movie review, and I ordered a while back, without a lot of thought. And I mention this only because it means I had no idea what this book was about, or what I was getting into. All I knew, I insinuated from the beautiful cover — a young woman on a beach, her pronounced indifference seemingly daring the photographer — and everyone else — to try to capture even one small […]
About that time I hung a mannequin from the power line…
Recently, someone has come in to my life who was diagnosed with Asperger’s a few years ago. At his urging to “read a little about it”, I picked up Look Me In the Eye at the public library. (Side note: I am shocked at how little there is out there about this condition.) John Elder Robison is the brother of Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors, Dry), and while I vaguely remember Robison from Burroughs’ memoirs, he reminds the reader that he and his brother had “different parents”, and […]
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