Honest Graphic Memoir of Addiction, Loss, and Artistic Passion
A review of an honest graphic memoir of a mother’s heroin addition, loss, and a son’s artistic passion.
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Researching Education in America While Reading Educated
Reading Educated by Tara Westover reminded me how my grandma told me that she didn’t get to go to school.
Book Review: Sick: A Memoir
Book review of Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour of her late-stage Lyme disease.
Book Review: Beauty in the Broken Places
This week I read Beauty in the Broken Places by Allison Pataki. It is the story of how Pataki’s husband Dave suffers a stroke in mid-air as they are flying to Hawaii during their “babymoon” when she was five months pregnant. Not that anyone ever expects a stroke, but he is only 30 and healthy,…
Book Review: The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
As I read The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska, I was looking forward to a medical memoir with the promise of something more. It is the story of a brain scientist who finds out she has multiple tumors that have spread to her brain from a previous melanoma diagnosis. She learns…