When you hear the word “memoir” you don’t think “hilarious”. However, that is exactly what you get with this book. The chapters fly past you before you know it, but each one holds something truly memorable. From the mother sharing pieces of her past to comparing herself to a famous actress from back in the... Continue Reading →
Black, White, and Gray All Over by Frederick Reynolds
As a mainly fiction book reader, memoirs rarely pique and are able to keep my interest but once I started reading this memoir, I simply could not let go. Whether you yourself are a reader of non-fiction or not, I believe that this is a book that you should be engaged in. You’ll learn quite... Continue Reading →
A Proper Contentment by Ned Hopkins
“A Proper Contentment” is a story about love—and all the ways you learn to give it. From the first line, you’re pulled into Ned Hopkins’ novel, which is filled with isolation, fear, lust, secrecy, love, discovery, and scandal. No one’s innocent, and everyone has something to hide. Hopkins delicately unravels the lives of the three... Continue Reading →
My Pursuit of Beauty by Vince Spinnato
Before we start talking about the written content, the ideas, discoveries and the secrets of the beauty industry, we HAVE to talk about this cover! HA! THIS cover is genius! Intriguing. Comic and when you join everything with THAT title.... BUM! You have a potential best-seller right here! AMAZING! This is a cover that you... Continue Reading →
“Paradise Road” by Marilyn Kriete
We are presented with a determined author, that tells us how she might rather die trying than to quit or not have it, that had to endure her mother as her sworn enemy for no apparent reason and had the courage to carve a path to herself through little secrets, friendships, escapades that latter escalated... Continue Reading →
“House of the Moon – Surviving the Sixties” by Donna D. Conrad
Sex, drugs and more sex and some more drugs. This is the starting point of this memoir as Donna D. Conrad tells us her experiences throughout the sixties on her early teens, narrated in a objective manner with very well detailed acts that lacked responsibility, or care, on her part, where her choices led her,... Continue Reading →
