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 [...]
Category > Memoir
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 [...]
‘Tis by Frank McCourt
I’m continuing on with my Frank McCourt theme. His second memoir, ‘Tis, is very much a continuation from Angela’s Ashes, starting off where the other one ended with his boat trip to America. In ‘Tis we see Frank McCourt go through the struggles of immigration, and growing up, trying to make his dreams come true. There [...]
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
Today I decided to write about Angela’s Ashes after reading in the news this morning that “Frank McCourt is gravely ill with meningitis and is unlikely to survive.” Angela’s Ashes is a memoir about Frank McCourt’s childhood in Ireland and ends with his fulfilling a dream by immigrating to America at the age of 19. Frank [...]
