JENERATION X, by Jen Lancaster
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
Tags: Humor, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
Posts tagged with ‘Memoirs’
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
Tags: Humor, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
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
Tags: B Plus Reviews, France, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Paris
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
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Humor, Memoirs, Non-Fiction
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
Tags: Canada, Canadian Writers, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
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
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Humor, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction
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
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Health, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Women's Issues
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
Tags: California, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
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
Tags: Art History, Literary History, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Visual Arts
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
Tags: Addiction and Recovery, B Plus Reviews, LGBTQ Interest, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction
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
Tags: Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Seafaring, Solid B Reviews, Travel Writing