I really had a hard time with Hillary Clinton’s account of her years in the White House – at first. The beginning was slow and erratic, but eventually Clinton fell into a productive and thoughtful writing pattern. I’d read Bill Clinton’s My Life a few years ago and was interested to hear her side of the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Non-Fiction’
May 13, 2010
Review – In the President’s Secret Service
I picked up this book because my mother-in-law brought it to town with her during this last trip. And since I can’t resist the pull of a normally hush hush topic, I had to read it. In the President’s Secret Service had such potential. SUCH potential. In reality, the book was put together so poorly [...]
May 3, 2010
Review – Committed
I have a girl crush on Elizabeth Gilbert’s voice. She seems like such an interesting lady and her warm writing style envelops me like a warm throw blanket and a cup of hot tea. I jumped on the Liz love bandwagon after reading her smash hit Eat, Pray, Love and enjoyed every minute of her [...]
April 20, 2010
Teaser Tuesday – April 20, 2010
Miz B and Teaser Tuesdays asks you to: Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way [...]
April 3, 2010
Review – Bright Lights, Big Ass
Jen Lancaster is a hoot. There is really no other way to describe her. Her first memoir, Bitter is the New Black, focuses on her six figure dot com lifestyle and subsequent bout with unemployment. Bright Lights, Big Ass details her real life in Chicago that is nowhere near as glamorous as all the cool [...]
March 15, 2010
Review – Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life
If you are looking for an audio book to make you laugh, this is not it. In fact, many times I thought to myself how not funny Steve Martin’s early jokes were. If you want to laugh, you’re better off with an actual performance recording. However, one of the things that makes this book interesting [...]
March 13, 2010
Review – The Professor and the Madman
For the entire first part of this book I was flooded over and over by words. Words I’d forgotten, words whose definition I took for granted, and words who sneak up and smack you in the head. How do you define art? Pause for a moment and try to come up with something on your [...]
March 7, 2010
Review – Government Girl
This book too me forever to finish. Maybe it was that it was an Advance Reader Copy (ARC) and I owned it, I’m not sure. Usually the deadline of a library helps me get a book moving along if it’s feeling a bit like work. Either way, there were a thousand other things that interested [...]
February 7, 2010
Review – SuperFreakonomics
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner are at it again. This time they’ve increased the stakes and discuss a few more wild topics than the first book Freakonomics. This follow-up had much more overt political undertones and I think the original delight of the hidden side of everything faded slightly. I enjoyed this book but not [...]
January 11, 2010
Review – She Got Up Off the Couch
Are sequels ever as good as the original? I loved Haven Kimmel’s A Girl Named Zippy but her follow-up to her life in small town Indiana was not as entertaining as her first memoir. I don’t usually pay attention to global ratings on GoodReads unless I’ve been in a book slump and need a sure-fire [...]
