Last month, my mother who has not been on an airplane in 22 years, (I repeat, 22 years!) came to visit me in Los Angeles. To be honest, I didn’t know if my mother would ever make it out to see me in LA due to her mental health condition. What we might see as […]
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2023 Memoir Picks Of The Year from January to June! This is your one big post thus far for 2023 for all the memoirs picks from January to June! The website has been under construction, a lot of construction, so I’m sharing all the must read memoirs of the year so far, and in July
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December Memoir Pick: A Piece Of Cake A seasoned literary agent once told me a great book is one that sits with you for not days, but years after you read it. This is exactly what will happen after you read A Piece Of Cake. However, I must warn you, Cup’s life story might be one of
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November Memoir Pick: The Glass Castle With the winter season upon us, comes cooler temperatures. Colder weather also means it’s that much harder to survive on the streets. Speaking of streets, right now, half a million individuals are living in a state of homelessness in the United States. This is why The Glass Castle, a story about
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October Memoir Pick: Love Warrior! I loved reading this memoir because Doyle is a narrator that feels like a friend, somebody you would want to have coffee with and exchange life stories. In Love Warrior, Doyle takes the reader on a journey of what’s going on underneath the surface of her picturesque life. On the outside,
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September memoir of the month: Hillbilly Elegy! This memoir is an important one because it shows how much resilience is required to press forward when you are born into poverty. As Vance says in this book, poverty was ‘The Family Tradition.’ Welcome to life in the Appalachia. The Appalachia is a setting I have always been
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August memoir of the month: Educated! Educated is a story about a young girl raised off the grid, how it impacted her world view, and what she had to endure to create a different life from the one her parent’s raised her to believe was the “right one.” Educated is also a story about what life looks
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JULY memoir of the month: What Happened To You? What happened To You: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing is the long-awaited book by Oprah Winfrey. While it’s categorized as a self-help book, it could easily mesh into the memoir genre too. It’s full of personal stories where renowned brain and trauma expert, Dr. Bruce Perry, writes
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JUNE memoir of the month: Good Morning, Monster. Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery is one of those rare, treasured booked I have not been able to put down. Catherine Gildiner, New York Times best-selling author and clinical psychologist, tells the story of five of her patients and what lead them to seek
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MAY memoir of the month: A Beautiful, Terrible Thing. When I was a kid, my mom used to take my little brother and I to the library to pick out a few books to read for the coming week. I adored the library. I could have stayed there for hours, flipping through books in the children’s section, but
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