Right off the bat, I don’t like this. I wouldn’t have chosen it but for the fact it was the only book I could get other than Wicked, and I read that a while ago. And we start with a seven-year-old busting into her parents bedroom to photograph them having sex, based off a bet by her older sister? A seven-year-old who practices swearing and is proud of the fact. Nope. I don’t know how much of this is based on truth and how much […]
Biography/Memoir
Where did this pie come from? Nowhere, my friend, nowhere.
The unsung heroes of a story are just as important (or more so sometimes) then the ones that get their names in the history books. And Georgia Gilmore did a very important thing: she put food into the tummies of people. An army cannot go far on an empty stomach and when the people of Montgomery, Alabama were walking to work and places instead of taking the bus, she helped by selling her pies. She helped make lunches. She gave her home for secret meetings […]
“This is a book about me, at what I hope is the beginning of the second half of my life and not the brief, final tenth.”
Hodgman’s essays are loosely threaded together by a common theme of travel/ vacationing but Vacationland is essentially a memoir about white, upper middle class male privilege. Hodgman acknowledges his privilege which makes this more entertaining than it could have been in someone hands. I listened to the audio-book which enhanced the experience. “Money cannot buy happiness, but it buys the conditions for happiness: time, occasional freedom from constant worry, a moment of breath to plan for the future, and the ability to be generous.” Hodgman grew up in […]
Who What When Where Why and How…..
Who Was Mark Twain? He was an author, adventurer, tall-tale maker and the subject of this book by April Jones Prince. There are several different people in the Who Was/Who Is series. I read Mark Twain and Who Was Joan of Arc by Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso last night. While each has its own author(s) each are illustrated by a different artist (John O’Brien and Andrew Thomson respectively). They are a non-fiction story about their subject. You can have everyone from Joan of Arc […]