Adam Gopnik’s writing style is as unique as the city he writes about, NYC. I loved this book.
Robin
A blend of memoir and science explores what we know (and don't know--find out how little we understand about the placenta!) about the biology and psychology of pregnancy and childbirth that puts women's experiences at the center.
Sarah
Novelist (Going Away) Sigal was a Hollywood talent agent and secret communist in the blacklist-plagued 1950s. An outrageously entertaining, naming-names memoir (with a ration of b.s. too...sweetheart, whaddya expect, he's an agent!), What Makes Sammy Run meets L.A. Confidential. The cover should be a lot more lurid!
Gary
This essay collection on writing, creativity, and identity is just about perfect. Worth it even if you haven't read Chee's other work.
Rebecca
Time Pieces is a beautiful telling of an old man's relationship to a city he met when life seemed quite new. The mundane glories--the evening's life upon brick, the wit of old storytellers--were miraculous to the boy, bathetic to the young man, and now treasured by the old author who strives to rediscover childlike wonder. More than just a memoir, it is a plaintive reflection on time. What is the past? Banville writes, "If the present is where we live, the past is where we dream."
Matthew
This is a stunning memoir and coming of age story; brutal yet inspiring. This is the story of what can happen when religious fundamentalists live apart from society and of one young woman's strength and determination to shape her own future.
Susannah
Discover another side to Shirley Jackson as she takes on the daily trials of domestic life in a small Vermont town. Laugh-out-loud funny and perfect for Mother's Day.
Katie
Winter, the second book in the Seasons Quartet, continues in the same vein as Autumn with vignettes about items, events, and people Knausgaard encounters in the season. I found the essays in turns funny, endearing, and haunting. A few of my favorite essays are "Winter Sounds", "Guests", and "Winter Boots".
Heather
Endurance is simply one of the best books I’ve read about what it’s like and what it takes to travel in space especially for long duration flights.
Dale
Endurance is simply one of the best books I’ve read about what it’s like and what it takes to travel in space especially for long duration flights.
Dale
