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reviewed Empty Chairs by Stacey Danson. August 30, 2012
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Empty Chairs by Stacey Danson
This book is not for the faint of heart. I was taken aback since the very third paragraph. I have read a couple of books on this topic but never felt what I felt while reading this book. I was enraged …
reviewed What are wisdom and intelligence by j.... December 30, 2011
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What are wisdom and intelligence by james kelley
What are Wisdom and Intelligence: By an Average Jim   Author: James Kelley   Reviewed by Fran Lewis           Wisdom and intelligence definitely …
reviewed Grip, A Memoir of Fierce Attractions .... December 06, 2011
Grip, A Memoir of Fierce Attractions by Nina Hamberg
When I received an advanced reader copy of Grip for review, I anticipated a memoir about a woman's survival of abuse. With so many women experiencing abusive relationships (one out of three is the last …
reviewed Born on a Blue Day, a memoir by Danie.... June 27, 2011
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Born on a Blue Day, a memoir by Daniel Tammet
Being a mathematician gives me an automatic interest in a book that has numbers on its cover. Being a writer brings the image of a blue day vividly to life. And knowing a number of people with diagnoses …
reviewed Small Memories. June 08, 2011
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Small Memories
"Only I knew, without knowing I did, that on the illegible pages of destiny and in the blind meanderings of chance it had been written that I would one day return to Azinhaga to finish being born."   …
reviewed My Two Wives and Three Husbands: A Tr.... May 01, 2011
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My Two Wives and Three Husbands: A True Love Story
From the opening pages of this memoir of Samuel Gorsky (later changed to S. Stanley Gordon) I was mesmorized. This is the tale of someone who dealt with a difficult childhood, laced with racism against …
posted a Quick Tip about Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search f.... April 22, 2011
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Narcissistic in the extreme, white middle class fantasy trips, kind of predictable insights, really her video after the book was much better than the book.
reviewed Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoi.... February 17, 2011
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Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of
Almost ten years ago, I read Caroline Knapp's memoir of dog ownership Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs, which explored, among other things, her relationship with her shepherd …
reviewed It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had.... February 03, 2011
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It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a
        When Heather Armstrong – author of the wildly popular blog dooce wrote and published her book, It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and …
reviewed Timmy's in the Well: The Jon Provost .... January 24, 2011
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Right from the title, you know this is going to be a fun, likable book. "Lassie" fans will indeed find Jon's memoir engaging and at times, quite surprising.  On almost every page, …
reviewed Looks Easy Enough: A Joyful Memoir of.... January 05, 2011
Looks Easy Enough: A Joyful Memoir of Overcoming
What a difference attitude makes. Author Scott Stevenson, in his narrative memoir Looks Easy Enough, tells the story of four years in his life with new wife Susan. These four years begin with the 46-year-old …
reviewed Marley & Me: Life And Love With The W.... December 29, 2010
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Marley & Me: A Memoir
    I bought a copy of John Grogan's Marley & Me in a CVS two years ago (this was, of course, before I started boycotting CVS, but that's a topic for another blog post) but …
reviewed Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search f.... December 04, 2010
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Eat Pray Love is a wonderful book that I would recommend to any woman.  The main character decides to leave her marriage and in an attempt to find herself, she travels to Italy, India and Indonesia. …
reviewed Looks Easy Enough: A Joyful Memoir of.... November 30, 2010
Looks Easy Enough: A Joyful Memoir of Overcoming
This book is a rather impressive, detailed memoir by Scott Stevenson. Scott recounts his adventures, focusing mainly on the span of his life with his wife Susan, who recovered from breast cancer using …
reviewed A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and .... November 25, 2010
A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning
As someone who's been involved, in our own small way, in dog rescue (we've opened our doors to six pugs over the years, four of whom were rescues, and my wife is still active, across country, with the …
reviewed The Summit by Eric Alexander. November 16, 2010
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The Summit by Eric Alexander
"The Summit" is a memoir by a man who has climbed some of the tallest and most difficult mountains in the world...and usually with a blind person on his team. His vivid descriptions of the various …
reviewed Under The Blue Flag: My Mission in Ko.... October 24, 2010
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Under The Blue Flag: My Mission in Kosovo
Under the Blue Flag is attorney Philip Kearney's memoir of a year he spent in Kosovo prosecuting war crimes that took place during the time when Yugoslavia was breaking up. Slobodan Milosevic ruled …
reviewed Fat Girl: A True Story. October 15, 2010
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This book should've been condensed into a tight, dynamite essay. There was a heartbreaking but ironic narration that was great at first. But, as a whole book, I began to feel the way I do when I'm watching …
reviewed Under The Blue Flag: My Mission in Ko.... October 11, 2010
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Under The Blue Flag: My Mission in Kosovo
Under the Blue Flag is attorney Philip Kearney's memoir of a year he spent in Kosovo prosecuting war crimes that took place during the time when Yugoslavia was breaking up. Slobodan Milosevic ruled …
reviewed Naked, Drunk, and Writing. October 11, 2010
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Naked, Drunk, and Writing
Naked, Drunk, and Writing: Shed Your Inhibitions and Craft a Compelling Memoir or Personal Essay by Adair Lara is a thought provoking, informative, and inspiring book on writing personal essays or memoirs.  …
reviewed You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know. October 08, 2010
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You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know
This isn't my usual thing - typically, stories of broken families and troubled childhood hit a little too close to home for me. But several years ago, something made me read Heather Sellers' fiction …
reviewed Marley & Me: Life And Love With The W.... October 05, 2010
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Marley & Me: A Memoir
Pros: excellent story, funny, entertaining      Cons: the book is about dogs and I definitely am not a fan of dogs      The Bottom Line: Very humorous book that …
posted a Quick Tip about Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search f.... October 04, 2010
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This story made a far better movie than book. The book itself struck me as everything I hate in the genre of memoir: self-indulgence, whining, murky, surface-level prose. But, this is the woman who wrote …
reviewed A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and .... October 01, 2010
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A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning
Honestly, I stumbled at the first page of the preface, but I'll give any book 30 pages of attention, so I kept moving. By the first page in chapter 1, I was hooked, and I put the book down at 2 AM, when …
reviewed Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking D.... September 27, 2010
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
I had been wanting to read Julie and Julia for a long time. Partly because I saw the movie when it came out last year, partly because I'm a fellow blogger. Last Friday I finally got around to finishing …
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