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I try to wade through my Bloglines feed reader a few times a week and am usually overwhelmed by the sheer volume of new posts and reviews by book bloggers–I follow 130 book blogs. In my blogging travels, I jot down titles and authors of books that bloggers rave about and add them to my hold list [...]
Title: Don’t Call Me a Crook! Author: Bob Moore Genre/Pages: Memoir; 255 pages Publication: Originally published 1935; republished by Dissident Books, Ltd. 2009 Rating: 2.5 BOOKMARKS Originally published over 70 years ago, Bob Moore’s memoir, Don’t Call Me a Crook! is part sensation, part confession. Bob Moore lived a wild and wicked life–he was a cad and [...]
Hello, my name is Natalie and I read celebrity biographies. (Hello, Natalie!) A genre that often reads like fiction is the celebrity bio/autobiography. Some readers eschew this genre because they aren’t interested in celebrities. Others avoid it because the writing can be appallingly bad. Still others know that buying these books hurts real writers because the publishers pay obscene [...]
Title: Pretty in Plaid: A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase Author: Jen Lancaster Genre: Nonfiction Memoir/Essay; 384 pages Publication Date: May 5, 2009 Publisher: National American Library (NAL) Rating: 4 Bookmarks If you’re anything like me, you have a Santa Claus-sized ledger in which you [...]
Thanks to the creative writing (and wild imagination) of James Frey (and a few others), the memoir genre has been forever tainted. Despite the scandals, I remain an unflagging and vocal supporter of nonfiction essays and memoirs. Some of my favorite authors exclusively pen nonfiction–Bill Bryson and Jen Lancaster to name just two. Why do I love these [...]
Welcome aboard, I'm Natalie! I'm 37, married to a dream boat, and live in New Jersey. It's all about books here! I read, recommend, review, and revel in them. Have a book you'd like me to review? Visit my Review Policy for details. Want to drop me a line? May 31, 2012
From the Outside Looking Indian
by Rupinder Gill
Courtesy of Berkley/NAL Penguin Group
June 12, 2012
Between You and Me
by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
courtesy of Engelman & Co.
July 3, 2012
The Next Best Thing
by Jennifer Weiner
courtesy of Engelman & Co.
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