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Rebecca Woolf — All of This (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 8, 2022 | RELAX: Memoir

Rebecca Woolf creates a complex yet vulnerable tale in All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire. How do these two topics intertwine, you ask? And Woolf answers this question in spades. Her marriage was far from perfect, but they stayed together. Then doctors diagnose...

Jamie Raskin — Unthinkable (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 24, 2022 | RELAX: Memoir, RESIST: Politics

Congressman Jamie Raskin bares his soul in Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy. This combination of memoir and political history covers topics related to the health of this country. One is the crisis of mental illness in this country,...

Vanderbilt and Cooper: The Rainbow Comes and Goes (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 5, 2022 | RELAX: Memoir

Gloria Vanderbilt grew up with every financial advantage a child in the early 20th century could want. Yet she didn’t have loving parents—one was dead and the other distant. Perhaps, as a result, having a close relationship with her youngest son, Anderson Cooper,...

Elizabeth Alexander — The Light of the World (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 24, 2022 | RELAX: Memoir

Elizabeth Alexander crafts an elegiac memoir and tribute to her late husband, Ficre Ghebreyesus, in The Light of the World. In many ways their marriage was typical. First, they had a meet-cute, then some dating and relocating, then wedding and kids. Still, the...

Book Review: Grief is a Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 6, 2019 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

Max Porter takes grief and gives it the face of a crow in Grief is a Thing with Feathers. You think I mean figuratively. But no, in this prose poem slash novel, there is literally a Crow character. The less fantastical characters are a dad with two sons, whose mom and...

Book Review: Promise Me, Dad by Joe Biden

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 31, 2018 | RELAX: Memoir

Before my ebook hit 25%, Joe Biden’s family stories in Promise Me, Dad had me crying. There’s plenty of other content in this heartfelt memoir, but the focus is on Beau Biden’s fight with cancer. Beau is Joe Biden’s oldest son, technically Joe III. His life story is...

Book Review: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 26, 2017 | RELAX: Memoir

In her vulnerable and raw memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking (TYMT), Joan Didion tells the story of her husband’s fatal coronary and her only child’s severe illness. Just the thing for reading around the holidays, right? Truthfully, I chose it because of a reading...

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