Search Results for 'Memoir'

Book Review: Little Miss Merit Badge: A Memoir

Do you remember the girl in your school (doesn't matter what school, what age) who everyone knew because she was a big winner? Maybe the girl was the one who won all the spelling bees, got the highest standardized test score, sold the [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Cookbooks, memoirs and food porn

In early 2008 I had my second trip to Vietnam – I went to play music at a New Zealand Food and Wine Festival in Ho Chi Minh City. It meant a couple of weeks' holiday as the cherry on top of a couple of hours' work, and gave [...]

Posted On : Aug, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

‘A cookbook and community memoir’

Last year, love advice books were all the rage in publishing, at least in terms of the African-American demographic. But judging from the early offerings of 2011, it looks like the how-to focus has shifted from the bedroom to the kitchen [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Book review - Vanishing Point Not a Memoir by Ander Monson

"I can only try to make my burden of proof, and show you a preponderance of evidence, of fact and fiction, on my behalf," writes Ander Monson in "Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir." "I can only stand up and (think ab [...]

Posted On : Apr, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Love Junkie A Memoir

There are those times when you read a book that really resonates with you. I was blown away by the courage of Rachel Resnick, author of Love Junkie: A Memoir. Her ability to write about her life without any semblance of self-pity was remark [...]

Posted On : Feb, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

Memoir brings genealogy to life

By Sidney Saylor Farr. University Press of Kentucky. 231 pages. $35.The photos look so familiar: grandparents with creased, weathered faces and deep-set eyes.Sidney Saylor Farr has written a memoir about growing up in the mountains of south [...]