Is there one moment that has come to define your life—a moment that changed your perspective, or your direction, or when you made a choice that has ever after changed who you are? I believe that all of us could come up with at least one example, if not more. I could write about the…
Category Archives: Memoir
Amazing Adventures of a Nobody
Leon Logothetis was doing fine, at least outwardly. He had a good job as a broker, a car and a nice flat in London, a loving family. What he didn’t have was inner peace or happiness; he led a shallow existence with no true emotional connection to anyone or anything. After an existential crisis sparked…
We Bought a Zoo: Books on Screen, with Giveaway
I’ve been a fan of memoir for a while. I really liked the run of “project memoirs” I read like The Happiness Project and anything by A.J. Jacobs. But lately, I’ve read memoirs with a different theme. Stories like Running Away to Home deal with people who take risks by leaving everything familiar behind to…
Booky Wook 2: This Time It’s Personal
Salacious. Bawdy. Hilarious. Yes, Russell Brand is known world-wide as a stand-up comedian and an actor, and I’m finding that folks either love him or hate him. Me? I have been brought to laughter many times when watching him on the screen. In my one brush with celebrity, I also blushed like a schoolgirl when…
On Reading: Books vs. People (with Giveaway)
I’ve noticed that I’ve become more introverted lately. It takes more effort for me to reach out to others, because I’m very content staying at home — reading or catching up on my DVR. My life is busy, so time alone or with no responsibilities is pretty highly guarded. Imagine how validated I felt when…
Finding Aster: our Ethiopian Adoption Story
Dina McQueen’s account of her adoption of an Ethiopian child, Finding Aster, is in many ways the story of the creation of herself as mother. She recounts her history with relationships, her struggle with endomitriosis, her one pregnancy and her being pressured by the father to have an abortion, and her eventual hysterectomy. Dina, in…
Season to Taste
Molly Birnbaum was an aspiring chef, doing kitchen duty at a Boston bistro while waiting to enter the Culinary Institute of America, when she was hit by a car while running through the streets of Boston. The impact of her skull against the car’s windshield severed the neurons that connected her nose to her brain,…
It’s Hard Not to Hate You, Review
Valerie Frankel has had much to hate about life. She was bullied and teased as a chubby Jewish teenager, and was in some terrible relationships. She’s also had her fair share of annoying neighbours who are too stuck on themselves to acknowledge her greeting, or “friends” who say things like “I was at your husband’s…
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