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Immortal Bird by Doron Weber – Review
Immortal Bird by Doron Weber Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: February 7, 2012 ISBN: 9781451618068 368 Pages Nonfiction: MemoirI read Immortal Bird without knowing very much about the...
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Mini Reviews: Biographies & Memoirs
Below are my brief thoughts on four of the books that I read for the Indie Lit Awards Biography and Memoirs panel. The reviews were embargoed while we were voting. Because it has been a couple of...
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Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe
Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob LoweWhat I didn’t like:Rob Lowe’s abundance of stories about his interactions with other famous people can seem like name dropping and bragging. However, the...
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Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky
Fans of Anthony Bourdain’s books should be happy to read this equally informative and brutally honest account of life as a hotel employee. Why the comparison? Not only does the author expose the inner...
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Dwarf by Tiffanie DiDonato
In Tiffanie DiDonato’s memoir Dwarf, she recounts the story of her life as a very short person living in a tall world. She describes her early challenges such as having arms so short that she can’t...
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Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan
Brain on Fire is Susannah Cahalan’s account of her month-long descent into madness and her family’s quest to solve the medical mystery of what went wrong.Susannah was an articulate reporter for the New...
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Life in Motion – Review
I think it’s common to have a fascination with something that we can’t do; something so far out of reach of our own abilities that we just can’t look away when given the opportunity. For some this may...
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It’s What I Do & Deep Down Dark – Mini Reviews
It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario is one of the best memoirs that I’ve read in a long time.First off, let me say that the book is fantastic, not only for the...
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The Sunday Salon – April 12
We had our first week of big spring thunderstorms, with which I have a love/hate relationship. We didn’t get thunderstorms often where I used to live in Oregon, so hearing the big window-rattling booms...
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Mini Reviews
I can easily recommend three out the four books that I have reviewed below, although each of those three is vastly different from the others. Which leaves only one oddball book that I didn’t like. I...
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