Book Review: Everything All at Once, Stephanie Catudal
Book review of Stephanie Catudal’s memoir Everything All at Once, which tells the parallel story of her father’s death and husband Tommy Riv’s illness from lung cancer.
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Book Review: The Hero of This Book
The Hero of this Book, by Elizabeth McCracken is filed under fiction, but has a lot to say about memoir.
Book Review: Drawing Breath by Gayle Brandeis
A book review of Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss by Gayle Brandeis.
Book Review: Self Care
Book review of Leigh Stein’s Self Care a satirical send up of the self care online wellness community where everything is for sale.
Book Review: Louise: Amended
Louise has a brain injury at 22 just as she was beginning her glossy life in LA.
Review of Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir About Cancer and a Journey
A review of Suleika Jaouad’s Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted. A cancer memoir about cancer, but also a journey.
Book Review: What’s the Story? Building Blocks for Fiction Writing
I recently had a chance to review What’s the Story? Building Blocks for Fiction Writing by Melissa Donovan. I know it sounds like hyperbole to say that this book has everything you need to know about writing, but it really covers a lot. how-toreference bookswriting
Book Review: The Opposite of Certainty – Finding Myself in the Story
I started reading The Opposite of Certainty, a memoir by Janine Urbaniak Reid, because it’s another story about someone with a brain tumor. While the details were different, I saw my story.
Theft by Finding and Stealing Ideas During Quarantine
reading the diary of a famous writer during the quarantine is perfect since it reminds me of all the things I can’t write, right now and how famous writers struggle sometimes too.
Book Review: The Song Poet
Review of The Song Poet by Kao Kalia Yang. The book is a love letter to her father who struggles with voice and to give his family love and care in a land that has taken them in, but has not always valued their traditions and differences.