Whenever someone learns that I work in a library, this question inevitably follows: what’s your favorite book? It’s like Sophie’s Choice, impossible to answer. So when it came time for me to review a recently published memoir, I couldn’t pick just one. Following are a few of my favorites from this year. Written by four…
While many of us can probably recall a heart-stopping moment when we narrowly averted a serious injury or even death – seventeen times? That is about sixteen more close calls than any one person should have to endure. And yet, that is how many times Irish novelist Maggie O’Farrell has dodged the bullet. Best known…
Mara Wilson, or you may know her as the little girl in Mrs. Doubtfire, Susan in the Miracle on 34th Street re-make, or Matilda. Now Mara Wilson is grown up, graduated from college, a playwright and author of the new book Where Am I Now? Where Am I Now? is Wilson’s memoir of her time…
I loved Thad Carhart’s previous nonfiction book, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, so I picked this up out of curiosity. I’m so glad I did! Finding Fontainebleau: An American Boy in France is part memoir, part culture, part history, and all delight. Carhart’s father, an air force pilot in WWII, was stationed in…
