memoirs
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Gift from the Sea
Lindbergh casts an unsentimental eye on the trappings of modernity that threaten to overwhelm us: the time-saving gadgets that complicate rather than simplify, the multiple commitments that take us from our families. –StoryGraph My Review Written in 1955, this book is something of a unique book for its time. Lindbergh…
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As You Wish Review
Cary Elwes was inspired to share his memories and give fans an unprecedented look into the creation of the film while participating in the twenty-fifth anniversary cast reunion. – GoodReads My Review I love The Princess Bride definitely one of my favorite books, and favorite movies ever. I also just…
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Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, A Memoir ARC Review
GoodReads: From bestselling author of She’s Not There, New York Times opinion columnist, and human rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, a memoir of the transformative power of loving dogs. This is a book about dogs: the love we have for them, and the way that love helps…
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Head Shot – Blog Tour
Synopsis: A girl from a Yorkshire mining town is barely thirteen when her father kills himself – her brother finds him dying. At sixteen she’s spotted by a rock star and becomes an international Vogue model. Seven years later her brother kills himself in her New York apartment and her…
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Blitz Writing ARC Review
GoodReads: Emerging out of the 1940-1941 London Blitz, the drama of these two short works, a novel and a memoir, comes from the courage and endurance of ordinary people met in the factories, streets and lodging houses of a city under bombardment. Inez Holden’s novella Night Shift follows a largely…
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