Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

Read By the Author

I love to listen to memoirs read by the authors that wrote them. Not so long ago, I was quite skeptical of all audiobooks. I viewed listening to a book as cheating, unless it was a matter of poor eyesight. I have, however, warmed somewhat to audiobooks...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2012 4:30 pm by Shh_ImReading@evpl

Filed under: nonfiction, audiobooks, biography, celebrities, memoir, Kate Braestrup, Maine, growing up, Indiana, Marriage, Craig Ferguson, Bill Bryson, Tina Fey, read by the author, autobiography, Bible, Iowa, A J Jacobs, spirituality, Haven Kimmel, Amy Dickinson, Anna Quindlen

Happy Belated Mother's Day: The Gift of an Ordinary Day by Katrina Kenison

I meant to write this several weeks ago, before Mother's Day, but I've had trouble sitting down to try and put into words what this book meant to me. I picked it up last fall when it was new. The flyleaf calls it "a memoir of a family in...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2010 10:17 am by kiya@evpl

Filed under: families, memoir, community, college admissions, parents, mothering, New Hampshire

Losing Mum and Pup: a memoir

Christopher Buckley usually writes funny, satirical novels ( Supreme Courtship ; Thank You for Smoking ). I have read a few of his novels and enjoyed them. Still, I almost didn't pick up his newest book, Losing Mum and Pup , about the year during...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2009 10:56 am by kiya@evpl

Filed under: memoir, death, Christopher Buckley, parents, William Buckley

Double Take worth a look

You're walking down the street and a legless man on a skateboard zooms by. Your first reaction--shock? disgust? pity? Welcome to Kevin Michael Connolly 's world. Author of the recent memoir Double Take , Connolly was born without legs. Instead...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2009 9:13 am by myzticrhythmz@evpl

Filed under: nonfiction, books, biography, memoir, Photography, human behavior, skiing, Kevin Michael Connolly, travel, social attitudes

Great Scot! (aka, Grateful American)

Many celebrity biographies possess certain similarities: ambition, failed relationships, struggle, and frequently, addictions and/or abuse. So much of the success of the book depends not only on how the author has dealt with these situations in real life...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2009 12:11 pm by myzticrhythmz@evpl

Filed under: humor, audiobooks, books, alcoholism, celebrities, memoir, Scotland, Craig Ferguson, talk shows

The Ripest Moments by Norbert Krapf

The Ripest Moments is a simple pleasure to read. While reading this memoir of growing up in the 40s and 50s in Jasper and rural Dubois County, Indiana, I found myself reminded over and over again of my own childhood in northern Indiana, and the cousins...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2009 2:00 pm by Bufkinite@evpl

Filed under: nonfiction, reviews, books, Food, Agriculture, memoir, farming, small town, Indiana, Framilies, Norbert Krapf

Love As Always, Kurt: Vonnegut As I Knew Him, by Loree Rackstraw

In September of 1965 Lorree Rackstraw was a graduate student in her second year at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, apprehensive about her new teacher, a relatively unknown writer named Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut had published just three books: The Sirens...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2009 1:21 am by Bufkinite@evpl

Filed under: reviews, books, World War II, families, biography, memoir, old man, WWII, Word War II -- fiction, books and reading, love, friends, relationships, Loree Rackstraw, Kurt Vonnegut, writers

Remarkable Story of an Owl and His Girl

Yes, that's the subtitle of the book I just finished. Wesley the Owl is a must for anyone who has ever been in love with an animal. The story is written by Stacey O'Brien, who was a lab assistant at Cal Tech when she adopted a 4-day-old barn owl...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2009 1:13 pm by wag.mado@evpl

Filed under: nonfiction, humor, reviews, books, dogs, oprah, memoir, love stories, nature, recommended, animals, love, friends, Grizzly bears, Elephants, owls

E Can Write More Than Songs

Mark Oliver Everett is probably better known simply as E, the lead singer and creative force behind the Eels, but a few months ago he published a memoir under his full name called Things the Grandchildren Should Know . He might be a little younger than...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2009 3:28 pm by Shh_ImReading@evpl

Filed under: nonfiction, families, celebrities, memoir, death, Mark Oliver Everett, music

Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill

Written in her 89th year, Diana Athill writes in Somewhere Towards the End not so much about getting old, but reflects on her life and, especially as the book goes on, about being old, and the matter-of-fact changes age imposes on one. It gives me great...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2009 12:11 pm by Bufkinite@evpl

Filed under: reviews, faith, biography, memoir, Racism, Diana Athill, sex, aging

The Longest Trip Home

After reading several mixed reviews on John Grogan's newest book , I took the plunge and decided I'd see for myself. I really didn't think there was any way I could like the book as much as the bestselling " Marley and Me ", but...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2009 11:08 am by wag.mado@evpl

Filed under: nonfiction, humor, book discussions, faith, dogs, families, memoir, love stories, illness, growing up

Possible Side Effects - Augusten Burroughs (2006)

Possible Side Effects is a collection of short memoirs by Augusten Burroughs, as his previous books are. Augusten Burroughs has had one of the most interesting and bizarre childhood and young adulthood ever. His family puts the dysfunctional in "dysfunctional...

Published Sat, Jan 01 2009 5:08 pm by HRevvdon@evpl

Filed under: memoir, Augusten Burroughs

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise - Ruth Reichl

Daphne Durham (Amazon.com) says “Ruth Reichl is a wonderful memoirist--a funny, poignant, and candid storyteller whose books contain a happy mix of memories, recipes, and personal revelations.” This is a great description of Reichl's book...

Published Sun, Dec 12 2008 4:08 pm by HRevvdon@evpl

Filed under: Food, memoir, critic, recipes, Rachel Reichl, New York Times

"House at Sugar Beach" by Helene Cooper

I just finished one of those books that will stay with me for a long while. Helene Cooper's memoir, The House at Sugar Beach: in Search of a Lost African Childhood is remarkable and haunting. Her journalistic expertise opens the reader up to a privileged...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 12:41 pm by wag.mado@evpl

Filed under: audiobooks, books, families, biography, Africa, Liberia, civil war, memoir

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