I was a teen in the 80′s, so of course I’m a fan of St. Elmos Fire. The West Wing is probably my favorite show of all time. So though I’m not generally a fan of the celebrity memoir, when I saw the buzz about Rob Lowe’s new book, and saw that he had even…
Category Archives: Memoir
It’s All Relative: at Kirkus Reviews Blog
Memorial Day Weekend starts today, especially if you’re in our local school district, where kids have the day off. The kick-off of summer this weekend means more than just barbecues and kids draped around the house all day telling you they’re bored. For many of us, it means spending time with family and extended family….
Planting Dandelions
I have to admit that I’m a sucker for parenting memoirs, preferring the kinds that tell it like it is. Feeling a connection with an author becomes inevitable when she ventures into extremely personal territory and hits eerily close to home. In her new memoir, Planting Dandelions: Field Notes from a Semi-Domesticated Life, Kyran Pittman…
Paris, Baby! Review and Giveaway
I love memoir. I especially love memoir that transports me to a different time or place. In Kirsten Lobe’s memoir Paris, Baby! she combines the familiar — a first pregnancy and baby — with the completely exotic — life as an expat American living in Paris. The book is candid, funny, and sweet. I loved…
Bonjour Happiness: A Kirkus Review
When the humanitarian organization we worked for in Africa offered us a chance to live in France for a year, we snapped it up. We settled in a tiny apartment on Rue d’Angleterre in the town of Chambery, located in the foothills of the Alps, and adjusted quickly to life in a mid-size French town….
On Reading: Books that Inspired Us as Mothers
I well remember that fateful day when I stared in disbelief at the home pregnancy test, the small pink line indicating a positive result. Although I had always known I wanted to have kids, although I’d been married 4 years at that point, I was still petrified. Surely I wasn’t really grown-up enough to be…
The Anti-Romantic Child: Kirkus Reviews Blog
Personal memories of childhood play such a large role in how individuals may approach the role of parenthood, for better or worse. In the case of Priscilla Gilman, a highly-educated woman living an academic life enmeshed in poetry of the Romantic era, her perspective was fully in line with a “romantic” image of childhood. Days…
The Girl’s Guide to Homelessness
In February of 2009, Brianna Karp lost her job, found out her estranged father had committed suicide, and her boyfriend broke up with her for good. These events, along with a lifetime of a dysfunctional and abusive relationship with her parents and the Jehovah’s Witness kingdom, factored into the many circumstances that resulted in her…
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