On My Bookshelf...

I read various reviews of this memoir last year and suggested it to my book club. I'm glad I did, because everyone who read it loved it!...

Whip Smart by Melissa Febos: When I heard about this memoir of a professional dominatrix, I was skeptical. I could see a publisher hearin...

The House at Sugar Beach is Helene Cooper's memoir of her childhood in Liberia, Africa and continues through her college years in Ameri...

Allison wrote a review of Cherries in Winter here . But I thought I would just add a few words. I breezed through this little memoir enjoyin...

Suzan Colon loses her dream job in 2008 as the economy is tanking, and part of her economizing includes learning to cook. She digs out he...

Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper is subtitled "A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned About Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat...

Always Looking Up: Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox : I'm not ordinarily a celebrity memoir reader, but this, Fox...

If it weren't a book club pick, I would have skipped Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I'm not a big memoir fan (although Julie A...

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron and Brett Witter is part memoir, part history lesson, and part tearje...

(Shameless plug: Don't forget to enter our first-ever (but not last!) book giveaway by this Sunday, September 7!) I picked up Queen of ...

Judith O'Reilly is very funny and insightful, and I was very excited to read this book. The premise sounded fantastic (city woman moves...

I went from not really being excited about any books I had in the house to having too many! I guess that's a good problem to have. A bun...