Stephanie Land’s first book MAID was a rightfully-deserved bestseller and became a hit Netflix show. CLASS chronicles her struggles to attend college as a single mother, living below the poverty line and constantly fighting a system designed to keep her down. Land writes with brutal honesty about college instructors who casually toss out cruel… Keep Reading
Audiobook Review: The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Britney Spears’ autobiography is a real-life Southern Gothic tale. I was prepared for the sadness and the rage she rightfully expresses at her family and the various people who have let her down during her life. I was not expecting the generational trauma which explains a lot about her very dysfunctional family. Her early… Keep Reading
Audiobook Review: Being Henry: The Fonz…and Beyond by Henry Winkler
If you look up the word “exuberant” in the dictionary, you might find a photo of Henry Winkler. His autobiography, releasing on October 31st, is a charming, funny and self-deprecating story filled to the brim with anecdotes about his decades in Hollywood. The son of German Jewish immigrants, Henry grew up in Brooklyn and struggled… Keep Reading
Strip Tees by Kate Flannery
As someone who practically lived at American Apparel during its heyday in the mid 1990’s to early 2000’s, shopping mainly for my daughter, I was very interested to hear what a former insider would say about the company. STRIP TEES proved to be both a provocative and very candid memoir about the almost cult-like… Keep Reading
CRYING IN H MART by MICHELLE ZAUNER
‘Crying in H Mart’ is an emotional and brutally honest memoir by Michelle Zauner, also known for her musical success as Japanese Breakfast. The daughter of a Korean mother and an American father, Michelle often struggled with her identity and finally gained some measure of peace and acceptance as she grew into adulthood. … Keep Reading
I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED by JENNETTE McCURDY
“Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them? Especially moms. They’re the most romanticized of anyone.” Compelling and so complex. Jennette McCurdy should be proud to know that she is a fantastic writer and storyteller, which seems to be what she wants to do with the rest of her… Keep Reading
BLOOD ORANGE NIGHT by MELISSA BOND
About the Book: Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this “page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental descent into prescription benzodiazepine dependence—and the life-threatening impacts of long-term use—that chills to the bone” (Nylon). As Melissa Bond raises her infant daughter and a special-needs one-year-old son, she suffers from unbearable insomnia, sleeping an hour or… Keep Reading
HELLO, MOLLY! by MOLLY SHANNON
About the Book: A candid, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption by comedic genius Molly Shannon At age four, Molly Shannon’s world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident with her father at the wheel. Held together by her tender and complicated relationship… Keep Reading
AUDIOBOOK REVIEW – GREENLIGHTS by MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY
Book Description: “I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud…. Keep Reading
NEW RELEASES – WEEK OF JUNE 1, 2021
It’s the first day of June and there are TONS of amazing new releases this week! Happy reading everyone!