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JENERATION X, by Jen Lancaster

June 25, 2012

FUNNY, SNARKY BLOGGER, columnist Jen Lancaster’s latest memoir is about trying to be a grownup in the suburbs.

Grade: SOLID B

JENERATION X
New American Library
2012

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PARIS, I LOVE YOU BUT YOU’RE BRINGING ME DOWN, by Rosecrans Baldwin

June 22, 2012

AN AMERICAN WRITER’S love affair with Paris becomes more complex the longer he lives there. Delightful memoir!

Grade: B PLUS

PARIS, I LOVE YOU BUT YOU'RE BRINGING ME DOWN
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2012

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LET’S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED, by Jenny Lawson

June 19, 2012

QUIRKY, FUNNY, OFFBEAT memoir from Internet celebrity “The Bloggess” delivers laughs (and raised eyebrows!)

Grade: B PLUS

LET'S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED (A MOSTLY TRUE MEMOIR)
Berkley
2012

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CURES FOR HUNGER, by Denis Y. Béchard

June 16, 2012

POIGNANT, ROUGH-HEWN MEMOIR from a writer trying to make sense of his troubled parents and their lives.

Grade: SOLID B

CURES FOR HUNGER: A MEMOIR
Milkweed Editions
2012

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AGORAFABULOUS! by Sara Benincasa

May 18, 2012

THE FUNNIEST AGORAPHOBIA MEMOIR ever written?  Almost certainly, but there’s insight aplenty as well.

Grade: B PLUS

AGORAFABULOUS! DISPATCHES FROM MY BEDROOM
William Morrow
2012

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MEMOIR OF A DEBULKED WOMAN, by Susan Gubar

May 14, 2012

SEARINGLY PERSONAL, YET incisively analytical memoir of ovarian cancer from women’s studies star Susan Gubar.

Grade: B PLUS

MEMOIR OF A DEBULKED WOMAN: ENDURING OVARIAN CANCER
W. W. Norton and Company
2012

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GROWGIRL, by Heather Donahue

May 10, 2012

ENTERTAINING MEMOIR FOLLOWS a woman’s journey from cult film stardom to marijuana farming (and back out!)

Grade: SOLID B

GROWGIRL: HOW MY LIFE AFTER THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT WENT TO POT
Penguin
2012

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SOME OF MY LIVES, by Rosamond Bernier

May 3, 2012

AN ELEGANT COLLAGE OF a memoir from writer, art historian Rosamond Bernier; fun and gossipy about the greats.

Grade: SOLID B

SOME OF MY LIVES: A SCRAPBOOK MEMOIR
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2011

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NINETY DAYS: A MEMOIR OF RECOVERY, by Bill Clegg

April 29, 2012

CLEAR-EYED, CANDID, AND BEAUTIFULLY written, Bill Clegg’s memoir of recovery from addiction stirs the soul.

Grade: B PLUS

NINETY DAYS: A MEMOIR OF RECOVERY
Little, Brown
2012

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THE VOYAGE OF THE ROSE CITY, by John Moynihan

April 27, 2012

SNAPSHOTS OF A LOST ERA vividly captured in a young writer/artist’s diary of his 1980 Merchant Marine voyage.

Grade: SOLID B

THE VOYAGE OF THE ROSE CITY: AN ADVENTURE AT SEA
Random House
2011

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