https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf7cF5wmYV0 The newest episode of Nonfiction Book Report is available on the Library’s YouTube Channel. For March, Michelle and I talk about two Newish Noteworthy Nonfiction memoirs. NBR: March Memoirs I shared Eddie Ndopu's Sipping Dom Perignon through a straw: reimagining success as a disabled achiever. In his memoir, penned with his one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and…
“Let me just exist with you, happier than ever.” For much of his life, Canadian actor Elliot Page experienced gender dysphoria that made him extremely uncomfortable in his own body. The intense pressure Page felt to dress and act in a certain way almost drove him to quit show business during the aftermath of his…
This month, I have not one, but two picks for you. Both of my picks this week are memoirs, and that's where the similarities end. For the reader, Jennette McCurdy's memoir, I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED, and Vanessa Schneider's memoir, MY COUSIN MARIA SCHNEIDER take very different turns. Child actor Jennette McCurdy didn't have the easiest…
I think most everyone would agree that being an adult is hard. Being a parent - no longer responsible just for yourself but also for the care and well-being of a whole other human being - well, that just adds a new level of stress to adulting. But to be the parent of a sick…
I am a firm believer that pets enrich our lives by providing comfort, companionship, purpose, and a whole host of other intangible, but still very real, benefits. If you are lucky enough to be on the receiving end of an animal’s love, then you don’t need me to tell you what’s what because you already…
The past year has been one of the most difficult and memorable years of our lifetime. Even those of us who haven’t suffered direct losses as a result of covid-19 have lost out in so many other ways - whether it is a loss of human connections, experiences, events, or opportunities. So when I heard…
Ramen is a bit of an obsession in my family, so much so that if a wish-granting food fairy could magically whisk us off to any restaurant in the U.S. of our choosing, chef David Chang's Momofuku Noodle Bar might just top the list. In his recently-published memoir, Eat a Peach, David Chang reveals the…
Whenever someone learns that I work in a library, this question inevitably follows: what's your favorite book? It's like Sophie's Choice, impossible to answer. So when it came time for me to review a recently published memoir, I couldn't pick just one. Following are a few of my favorites from this year. Written by four…
While many of us can probably recall a heart-stopping moment when we narrowly averted a serious injury or even death - seventeen times? That is about sixteen more close calls than any one person should have to endure. And yet, that is how many times Irish novelist Maggie O'Farrell has dodged the bullet. Best known…
Mara Wilson, or you may know her as the little girl in Mrs. Doubtfire, Susan in the Miracle Mara Wilson as Matilda on 34th Street re-make, or Matilda. Now Mara Wilson is grown up, graduated from college, a playwright and author of the new book Where Am I Now? Where Am I Now? is Wilson’s…
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