I love Bill Bryson. And that’s really all there is to it. He could write about anything and I would think it was hilarious and enjoy it tremendously. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is the story of Bill Bryson’s life. It tells of his childhood in Iowa and how everything was generally [...]
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Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
I actually went to see this movie before reading the book. I had heard good things about it and actually enjoyed the movie quite a bit. So when I ran across a copy of Julie and Julia at the library I picked it up. This was a quick read for me…but I have to be [...]
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
This is the true story told my a young man who recounts how he became a child solider and eventually was rescued from that life. Ishmael Beah was twelve years old when war broke out in Sierre Leone. Ishmael had gone with his brother and some friends to a neighboring town and tried to make [...]
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo is the journal that Paula Huntley kept when she and her husband moved from San Francisco to Prishtina, Kosovo in 2000, right after much of the conflict ended in Kosovo. Paula’s husband was going to work on the legal system and bring it up to par. Paula wanted to [...]
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
I love books about travel…mostly because I’m unable to travel much myself. In Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert takes us through three very different worlds as she travels from Italy, India and Indonesia in the pursuit of joy and self peace. She reached her early 30s and realized that she did not really want the [...]
Passing For Thin by Frances Kuffel
Weight loss and dieting are a huge industry in the United States. I recently read that Americans spend up to $46 billion dollars a year on dieting products and self-help books. It also said that 1/3 or American adults are overweight. There are also television shows such as Biggest Loser that bring our attention to [...]
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
This memoir by Jeannette Walls leads the reader through her dysfunctional family as a child to an adult, with the mixed feelings that go along with that journey. Again, the first sentence of this book caught my attention and kept me reading. “I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the [...]
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
I’m a true believer that how much you enjoy and take from a book has a lot to do with the timing and setting of where you read it. I first read Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight when I spent a year in Zambia between college and grad school. It was the perfect [...]
Lucky by Alice Sebold
Lucky is the true story of a rape that Alice Sebold experienced when she was a freshman in college. Rape is a topic most of us can hardly handle to think about let alone write or talk about, yet Alice Sebold tackles her story with honesty and frankness. This book starts quickly and harshly with [...]
French Dirt by Richard Goodman
This isn’t a story about french gossip…just so you know. It is truly about French Dirt. Richard Goodman and his girlfriend live in New York and decide to do something a little crazy and spend a year in a village in the south of France. After eight months of working hard to save money and [...]
