Be Ready When the Luck Happens (Book Review)
This is the story about how following what we love with curiosity and courage, as well as tenacity and hard work, creates our luck.
Memoir
The Choice (Book Review With Quotes)
This is the best book I’ve ever read by a holocaust survivor. The lessons she learned were clearly explained and profoundly applicable to today, not only for those that have been through trauma, but for all of us.
How Far the Light Reaches (Book Review)
The lovely upshot is that in the process of examining all this wide ranging and unusual authenticity, we find permission to be unapologetically our own remarkably distinct selves.
Why Fish Don’t Exist (Book Review)
This is genre-bending reading, part memoir, part biography of David Star Jordan, part expose and social commentary, part existential philosophy by an atheist searching for the meaning of life in a world filled with entropy.
These Precious Days (Book Review)
Ann Patchett’s level of authenticity is exemplary, and how she cherishes her friends with openness and presence is inspiring.
Clear Seeing Place (Book Review with Quotes)
This is a marvelous memoir by a successful and nice artist. Read here lots of quotes from it that I found illuminating.
The Jeweled Highway (Book Review)
If you want to read a memoir of an icon spiritual seeker, you might like to read this too. I give the book 4 stars.
Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation (Book Review)
I enjoyed this graphic memoir a ton more than I thought I might, and now I want others to read it too!
Notes from a Young Black Chef (Book Review)
Get behind the scenes in the life of one black kid from the Bronx who made good.
Save Me the Plums (Book Review with Recipes)
If you are interested in the food industry, or in publishing, or in memoirs about working lives rather then personal ones, you might want to pick this one up.
Lab Girl (Book Review)
If you are interested in science, you will be glad to have read this book. In general, Lab Girl is very well done.
Little Princes (Book Review)
It is always good to read about good prevailing over evil, as well as the resiliency of children even in the worse circumstances.
Sweet Life in Paris (Book Review with Hot Chocolate Recipe)
Never having been to Paris, no other book I’ve ever read has made me feel more like I have.
Sunday Sketching (Book Review)
This is an absolutely wonderful book. It is part memoir, part a book about design and creativity, part humor and pure brilliance. I give it 5 stars.
Book Review: Dinner with Edward
This sweet, yummy book is a great way to spent an evening. It is a short, loving memoir of the transformative effect their dinners together has on both of them.