Any suggestions for a memoir? (Besides Jen’s….I’ve read and enjoyed those more than once!)
Any suggestions for a memoir? (Besides Jen’s….I’ve read and enjoyed those more than once!)
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Educated by Tara Westover
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
That was excellent!
@Karen so good!!!
And I’m Fine…. By Whitney Cummings
Anything by David Sedaris
Need some good book to get me through thus football season … trying to stay Blue faithful!!
Go Blue!
Liars Club!
Educated!
If you loved the 80s hairbands… Dirty Rocker Boys by Bobbi Brown (Jani Lane of Warrant, ex wife)
Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance. Holy Moly!
The Glass Castle! Not funny or lighthearted at all. But it is an amazing book.
Yes, that is a good one. I believe it is being developed for a movie.
The movie is already out on dvd. It had an excellent cast.
@Laurie ~ oh shoot, replied in wrong spot. Meant “The Sound of Gravel”
High Achiever by Tiffany Jenkins.
Anything by Bill Bryson
Really enjoyed his Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
@Courtney yes! I think it’s my favorite! I also love the ones in England. I can’t think of the names (I’m pre-coffee, lol)
A stranger in the woods by Michael Finkel
A House In the Sky, Amanda Lindhout’s story.
I read a review and my interest was piqued…but I couldn’t bring myself to pick it up and read it…. one day I saw it at Chapters.. on sale. So I picked it up, sat in a chair, and thought I’d give it a try. 80 pages later, I bought the book. Finished it the next day. It’s beautifully written… amazing.
Drinking: A Love Story (Caroline Knapp) and Blackout (Sarah Hepola)
I Must Say by Martin Short.
Anything by Celia Rivenbark and Laurie Notaro. Both are pee your pants hilarious.
Oh dang Rachel West!! I forgot one of my favorites Jenny Lawson. I must need more coffee!!
Jenny Lawson, Sara Bareilles, Anna Kendrick, Mindy Kaling, Kelly Corrigan
The Sound of Gravel
Anything by Jeannette Glass
Anything Augusten Burroughs
I second that!
Educated
Definitely Augusten Burroughs. I recommend starting with Running with Scissors and then Dry. Trevor Noah Born a Crime is great too.
A Girl Named Zippy
Drew Barrymore ‘s Wildflower
All Happy Families
Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe
I just downloaded this one. Can’t wait to read it.
I’m listening to this as I type. Soo good!
I went to his one man show last spring and he was great live too. Does he narrate the audiobook?
He does.
I might have to get it just to hear him read the book.
So good!
I adore Carol Burnett’s, Tim Conway, Troublemaker by Leah Remini, Amy Poehler’s, Tina Fey’s, Mindy Kaling’s biographies are great.
All amazing memoirs!
I just finished listening to Retta’s “So Close to Being the Shit, Y’all Don’t Even Know.” Very funny and I recommend the audio be cause she reads it and ad libs some updates.
Dad is Fat
I also really like Food: A Love Story
I just finish From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein. She was a stenographer in the Obama administration. Great, quick read.
Anything by Celia Rivenbark
Senior moment here. Read your reply and said to myself, “I thought I read everything Celia Rivenbark has written,” then promptly googled Amazon for “Anything” by Celia Rivenbark. Imagine my disappointment when I couldn’t find it. Took my a couple of moments you meant anything (written) by Celia.
@Mary sorry. Should have been more specific! LOL
Born With Teeth by Kate Mulgrew
Composed by Roseanne Cash.
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Born a Crime Trevor Noah
I Must Say by Martin Short
Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
Fact or Historical fiction? If HF… try “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”.
Dimestore by Lee Smith.
Lab Girl
Girl Logic
Yes, Please
So, Anyway…
S*** My Dad Says
Brain on Fire, The Color of Water
Wonderful Tonight by Patti Boyd
The Glass Castle
Yessss
It took me so long to get through this book yet I couldn’t put it down. It was beautiful and heartbreaking. Everyone should read this book.
Educated
My Lucky Life in and out of show Business by Dick Van Dyke
Loved this one!
Not My Fathers Son by Alan Cumming
Yes! Good one!
Kitchen Condifential by Anthony Bourdain
Paddle Your Own canoe by Nick Offerman
My Life In France by Julia Child
Apricots on the Nile by Collette Rossant.
All of Chelsea Handler’s
Most Talkative by Andy Cohen
Jill Conner Browne’s Sweet Potato Queens books. She’s a hoot and she has fun Southern recipes sprinkled through.
A Homemade Life by Molly Wisenberg
An Unquiet Mind
Chelsea Handler’s are good and so are Jenny Mollen’s
Manic Kingdom. Although it’s more of a memoir/novel hybrid.
“Let’s Pretend We’re Normal” Tricia Lott Wiliford
Laurie Notaro, Jenny Lawson.
My favorite is “Truth and Beauty” by Anne Patchett. It’s about a friendship she has with another woman who is facially disfigured. That woman (Lucy Grealy) also wrote a fantastic memoir called “Autobiography of a Face”. So they’re kind of companion memoirs! So, so good.
Anything by AJ Jacobs
Seven Seasons in Siena by Robert Rodi
At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream — Wade Rouse
Fastest Thing on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood by Terry Masear
I Suck at Girls — Justin Halpern
The Rainbow Comes and Goes with Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt.
Carly Simon
It’s all over but the shouting, by Rick (just forgot his last name ?
Rick Bragg…I enjoyed that one, too!
The house in the sky