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 ‘Memoir’
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
January 1, 2010
Review – Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat
I stumbled upon this book one day while browsing GoodReads, and was immediately drawn to the cover. It was a perfect quick weekend read, and let’s face it, I’m a sucker for memoirs detailing lives more interesting and fast-paced than my own. Of course, I assumed like most people Burau describes when they hear she [...]
November 28, 2009
Review – Ice Bound
I do not recall the original timeline of Jerri Nielsen’s South Pole Winter-Over Breast Cancer story, but rather bumped up this book in my queue after hearing of her June 23, 2009 death from an 11-year battle with the disease. Nielsen’s narration on audio is telling, and while she is a fabulous doctor she is [...]
November 12, 2009
Review – A Girl Named Zippy
Haven Kimmel has the driest and most wonderful sense of humor this side of the Mississippi. Her memoir of growing up in Moreland, Indiana does not have much of a plot and reads a bit like a series of short stories which made it perfect on audio. Kimmel herself narrates and her cadence and tone [...]
