Fave Reads of 2015: Memoirs and Celebrity Voices

I’m continuing my Faves of 2015 series today with Memoirs and Celebrity Voices (Humor, Nonfiction, Memoir). Catch up with my Adult Fiction and YA picks here. Here are my Fiction, Romance and New Adult and Memoir picks from 2014. I listen to a lot of audiobooks and one of my favorite categories to listen to is Memoirs. I even find myself listening to […]

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Audiobook Review: Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

A few years ago I raved about Jenny Lawson’s humorous memoir debut Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, a book about Lawson’s eccentric upbringing in rural Texas and how she became the Bloggess we know her as today. Lawson’s dark and quirky sense of humor and laugh out loud stories resonated with readers and her book […]

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Laughter is the Best Medicine: Memoirs on my Radar

A good story is a good story, and sometimes I need to take a break from YA or Romance and sink my teeth into a juicy memoir. The last memoir I read was Girl in a Band about a month ago, and I’m itching to read more. And strangely, the memoirs I’m attracted to currently are either medical […]

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Audiobook Review: Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

The band Sonic Youth formed in 1981 in New York, and they first got my attention with their 1988 breakthrough album Daydream Nation. Two of the founding members of Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, were a couple and were married for 27 years. Fans were shocked when the indie rock Super Couple announced […]

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Audiobook Review: Silver Screen Fiend by Patton Oswalt

In Silver Screen Fiend, actor/comedian Patton Oswalt talks about his addiction: film. In the 90s Oswalt was trying to get his standup career off the ground, and meanwhile spending every spare moment at the movies. LA’s New Beverly Cinema became his own film school of sorts and he’d check off the movies he saw in […]

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