Insomniac City, by Bill Hayes
Insomniac City made me cry – but in a nice way. I am an incurable romantic and Hayes’s revealing memoirContinue Reading
Project Tag: Review of memoir
3,096 Days, by Natascha Kampusch
Many people reeled with horror when then news broke about an Austrian woman who escaped after being held in anContinue Reading
Bongo Bongo Bongo I Don’t Wanna Leave the Congo, by Veronica Cecil
So bongo, bongo, bongo, I don’t want to leave the Congo / Oh no no no no no / Bingle, bangle, bungle, I’m so happy in the jungle / I refuse to go.
Foreskin’s Lament – A Memoir, by Shalom Auslander
“Foreskin’s Lament” should carry a warning: “Only read with an open mind.”
I Met the Walrus, by Jerry Levitan
This is one of those books that you can reread and delve into again and again, since it is mostContinue Reading
Life Beyond Measure – Letters to My Great-Granddaughter, by Sidney Poitier
While I was reading Sidney Poitier’s memoir, it was as if he were talking to me in his velvety voiceContinue Reading
The Orange Trees of Baghdad, by Leilah Nadir
Leilah Nadir, a Canadian of mixed English/Iraqi birth, wanted, like most people do at certain times in their lives, toContinue Reading
Welcome Home – Travels in Small-town Canada, by Stuart McLean
Stuart McLean steps outside his alter-ego of “Dave” of the Vinyl Cafe stories and here writes as himself, an authorContinue Reading
The Hare with Amber Eyes – A Hidden Inheritance, by Edmund de Waal
This is one of those rare things – an author’s first book that does not read like a first book.Continue Reading
Medium Raw – A Bloody Valentine to the Word of Food and the People Who Cook, by Anthony Bourdain
Ever since I first saw Anthony Bourdain on TV, skidding to a halt in his spiky-tipped boots in the introContinue Reading
People of the Deer & Eastern Passage, by Farley Mowat
Grand old man of Canadian literature dies May 7, 2014 – Farley Mowat has died, just five days before his 93rd birthday.Continue Reading
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, by Chris Hadfield
Chris Hadfield is a retired Canadian astronaut who was the first Canadian to walk in space. Hadfield flew two space shuttle missions and served as commander of the International Space Station. Then he retired and wrote this book. This is real science, real space flights and real man’s stuff.
Names for the Sea – Strangers in Iceland, by Sarah Moss
I grabbed this book because it is set in Reykjavik, and I’ve always been fascinated by Iceland and Reykjavik, evenContinue Reading
Nothing To Be Frightened Of, by Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes slices the subject of death open as cleanly and as deeply as a professional forensic pathologist. Not oneContinue Reading
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, by Jenny Lawson
I laughed ’til I cried when I read this book. I really did. I had to read it with aContinue Reading
Report from the interior, by Paul Auster
It was Auster’s stated intention to describe the “human condition”, the state of everyman, as small and young humans in thisContinue Reading
Your Don’t Look Your Age…And Other Fairy Tales, by Sheila Nevins
With reference to the title of her new biography, Sheila Nevins does not look her age, which is 78 years.Continue Reading
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