Book Review: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

This is the second Sedaris book I picked up and I must say: I’m not disappointed. This is an older book than the first one I read. It’s not as catchy as When You Are Engulfed in Flames but it’s still just as good.
If this were the first of Sedaris’s books I tackled I don’t [...]

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Book Review: Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me Chelsea

“I was nine years old and walking myself to school one morning when I heard the unfamiliar sound of a prepubescent boy calling my name. I had heard my nape spoken out loud by males before, but it was most often by one of my brothers, my father, or a teacher, and it was usually [...]

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Book Review: When You Are Engulfed in Flames

I am in love.
This is the first book I’ve read by David Sedaris but I will tell you one thing: I’m hooked. I didn’t even make it through half the book before requesting every book he’s ever written from the library.
This book is a collection of personal essays he’s written over time. It’s hard to [...]

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Book Review: Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time

By Valerie Bertinelli

I’ll be honest. I felt this book was a huge advertisement for Jenny Craig. I know she’s the spokeswoman and all but I found it somewhat repetitive.
It was a slow and I had way too many more interesting reading waiting for me, so I decided to fold. Usually, I like to tough it out [...]

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Book Review: Come Back: A Mother and Daughter’s Journey Through Hell and Back

It is its own religion, this love. Uncontainable, savage, and without end, it is what I feel for my child.
Claire and Mia beautifully wrote this memoir about the challenges they faced – alone and in their relationship. I am completely moved at their ability to reconstruct their relationship. I often think about at what point [...]

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Book Review: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“I was born with water on the brain.”
What a great first line. I was immediately drawn into this story about a teenage boy struggling with who he is as an Indian living on a reservation. Ultimately, he decides to attend an all white school a few towns over and it changes his life forever.
Arnold (Junior) [...]

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Book Review: From High Heels to Bunny Slippers

 
I just finished this wonderful book. I was surprised at how much of it pertained to me. Since I have been out of work just over a year in caring for my son I figured the transition from work to home was complete. I took this book out of the library on a whim and [...]

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Book Review: sTORI Telling

Tori Spelling has been quite popular lately. From her reality shows on Oxygen to her recently released book sTORI Telling, she can be seen just about anywhere.
Of course, she’s been in the public eye for sometime now – Hello? Her dad is Aaron Spelling! – and stories have been told about [...]

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