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Category Archives: Nonfiction
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls and Everything in Between by Lauren Graham
Talking as Fast as I can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls and Everything in Between is a light, somewhat inconsequential celebrity memoir that I nevertheless relished because I adore its author, Lauren Graham. As Gilmore Girls is one of … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Chick-Lit, Contemporary, Nonfiction
Tagged celebrity tell all, Gilmore Girls, Lauren Graham, memoir, nonfiction
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Dinner with the Smileys by Sarah Smiley
Kelley and I read this one for our neighborhood book club. (Since she read it some time ago, I’m not sure she’ll post about it, so I didn’t label this one “Two Dorks, One Book.”) Dinner with the Smileys: One Military Family, … Continue reading
Posted in book club reads, Nonfiction
Tagged book club, Dinner with the Smileys, memoir, nonfiction
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
By turns ghastly and intriguing, this nonfiction piece looks at what happens to our bodies after we die, particularly for cadavers willed to science. The realities are somewhat unsettling, but Roach treats the subject with a light, irreverent tone that … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Creepy/Weird, Nonfiction
Tagged cadavers, Mary Roach, nonfiction, Stiff
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Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
I’ve been reading Jenny Lawson’s hilariously funny posts over at thebloggess.com for a while now. She always cracks me up, but I hadn’t gotten around to reading her first published book Let’s Pretend This Never Happened until this week (and yes, I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Nonfiction, Short Stories
Tagged humor, Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, memoir, nonfiction, The Bloggess
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The Potty Mouth at the Table by Laurie Notaro
If you read this blog at all, you know how much I LOVE humor writer Laurie Notaro. So I’m not sure how I missed her last book of essays, The Potty Mouth at the Table. (Except Outlander, so I guess … Continue reading
Posted in Nonfiction, Random, Short Stories
Tagged essays, humor, Laurie Notaro, The Potty Mouth at the Table
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Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety by Daniel Smith
We now interrupt this Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice readalong challenge currently in progress to bring you a look at how I procrastinate when I should be getting ahead on said challenge, hanging out with my dad in the hospital, … Continue reading
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
Really not sure what to say about this one. It’s a short memoir of an impromptu, two-member book club which arises when a young man tries to talk to his mother about something while accompanying her to cancer treatments. Nothing … Continue reading
Two Dorks, One Book: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
Michelle says: So I read this in one evening for my neighborhood book club (the first one Kelley is going to drive up and join me for! Yay!) and found it reasonably enjoyable. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? is … Continue reading
Posted in 2 Dorks 1 Book, book club reads, Nonfiction
Tagged 2 Dorks 1 Book, book club, memoir, mindy kaling, Two Dorks One Book
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You Better Not Cry by Augusten Burroughs
I’m not usually much for Christmas-themed memoirs, but I found this one at The Dollar Tree and I’d read some other stuff by Burroughs, so I figured I would give it a try. This was a brief memoir of Christmas … Continue reading
The Psychology of Dexter – Bella DePaulo
On the one hand, this book is incredibly nerdy (who reads psychological essays about their favorite show besides me?) and on the other, it is completely engrossing and thought-provoking; I mostly loved The Psychology of Dexter. A couple of the … Continue reading
