Elizabeth Vargas, an anchor for 20/20, managed to spend years working as a very public person despite the high levels of anxiety that it gave her. Over the years, she began to cope with that anxiety by drinking. This memoir is her story of how she got to that point, and how she recovered from it. It’s very well written, she has a beautiful voice. It’s very honest and she holds nothing back. From a very young age, Vargas suffered from anxiety attacks as her […]
“My father had more than fifty children.”
Another memoir about a messed-up childhood! You know, I wonder sometimes why I, and my little sister, read so many of these books. We certainly did not have messed up childhoods. For one thing these memoirs are everywhere: easily accessible, quick to read. But for me, I think the appeal is reading how another person lived their life, and sort of testing it against my own abilities. Could I survive like that? It’s the same reason I like to read books about people who have […]
The Rules Do Not Apply
I just realize that eight of the last ten books that I’ve read have been memoirs, and seven of those eight have been written by women. So my apologies if this review isn’t too in-depth — I’m trying to sneak it in before April ends and honestly I didn’t really like it very much so I can’t remember too much. It doesn’t help that I immediately followed it with a book by someone with almost exactly the same name but a much more interesting story. […]
Alec Baldwin <3 Alec Baldwin
Look at the cover of this book. Or Google it, if for some reason my book cover isn’t showing up (which they haven’t been doing lately and am I doing something wrong?). Anyway, examine the cover. Look at the handsome actor with his cleft chin, presumably standing in the rain in this black and white shot that somehow conveys angst, and art, and sacrifice. This book can absolutely be judged by its cover. You don’t need to know anything else about it. I would not […]