Lunch in Paris: a Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard When I picked up Elizabeth Bard’s wonderful foodie memoir, Lunch in Paris, I’m not sure what I was expecting. I mean, I knew the story of a young American woman in Paris wasn’t going to be about the side effects of diet pills or [...]

Passage from England by Frank Zajaczkowski CreateSpace, 378 Pages Get it at Amazon >> When author Frank Zajaczkowski contacted me about reading and reviewing his memoir I was flattered – as I always am. Then I went to his website and read the excerpts posted there, and immediately I was hooked, not just by his [...]

Prairie Tale: a Memoir Melissa Gilbert Gallery, 384 pages Get it from Amazon >> I’ve been a fan of Melissa Gilbert ever since the first episode of “Little House of the Prairie” first aired, but I hadn’t realized she’d published her memoir until I saw it for sale among the souvenirs of “Little House on [...]

The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story by Julia Reed Harper Perennial, 224 pages Get it at Amazon >> Julia Reed’s The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story may be her memoir of the renovation of the home she buys (across the street from Anne Rice’s old place) with her husband, [...]

Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman Grand Central Publishing, 320 Pages Get it from Amazon >> I read almost all of Susan Jane Gilman’s travel epic while sitting in the Mexicana Elite lounge in Mexico City about ten days ago, and on the plane trip home. I had a few [...]

Coop: a Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting Michael Perry Harper, 368 pages Get it from Amazon >> I wasn’t going to post any kind of review of Coop here, but I love Michael Perry’s writing so much that I couldn’t not. In this, the third of his collection of memoirs about his adult life [...]

Truck: a Love Story by Michael Perry Harper Perennial, 320 pages Get it from Amazon >> Several days ago in this blog, I mentioned that I had an “author crush” on Michael Perry. I’m currently reading his most recent book, Coop which will be reviewed over at All Things Girl, but I wanted to make [...]

Hollywood Monster: a Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams by Robert Englund, with Alan Goldsher Pocket, 304 pages Get it from Amazon >> I have a memory from when I was twelve or thirteen (but probably twelve): I was sitting in the living room with my mother, stepfather, and stepbrother, textbooks [...]

The Longest Trip home John Grogan Get it from Amazon.com >> It’s weird the way some books fall into your life exactly at the right moment. For example, the day after I got home from my recent trip to New York and New Jersey, on a flight where I resorted to actually reading the different [...]

Drinking with George: A Barstool Professional’s Guide to Beer George Wendt Get it at Amazon >> One of my favorite parts about my work with online magazine All Things Girl is that I often get to review books before they come out, so that I can interview the authors. Recently, George Wendt, whom most people [...]