Forgive me if my critique is not “pithy”
I couldn’t wait to read this book. I bought it this morning and left work early so I could read it. Why? Because Bill Oreilly fascinates me and I thought his memoir would give some real answers as to how this man, who truly is an American original, [...]
Roger Rosenblatt’s reputation is well-established. He is one of the finest writers living in the United States today. So I expected his latest book, MAKING TOAST to be interesting and touching, and touching and interesting it is.
Rosenblatt gives the history of Amy, his young, brilliant, beautiful daughter, and of her sudden death.
He and his [...]
Like her wonderful novel The Lovely Bones – which I’ve also reviewed and which you must read – Lucky is a harrowing, heart-wrenching book about the worst possible thing that can happen to a woman. Alice Sebold tells the raw story of her rape ordeal and her subsequent struggle for recovery with an honesty and [...]
Gosh, I hate even having to write this review; because I absolutely adore Chelsea Handler!!! This book looked hysterical, and I just had to have it. Much to my dismay, I would not recommend it. Miss Handler’s show, Chelsea Lately, is always laugh-out-loud funny, and I expected her book to be the same. Even reading [...]
Autobiographies often suffer from late-life authorship–a time when the fires are damped and the events foreshortened by time. This one–by a woman still in her thirties–is an exception to nearly every rule of the genre.Not least for its electrifying readability: it consumed every free moment of the two days it took to finish it.Putting it [...]
