

Little Weirds, Jenny Slate
Little weirds is right! This book must have been written in stream of consciousness, just in paragraph form, trying desperately to...


Calypso, David Sedaris
I’m not much into nonfiction works that’s major theme is humor, but thought what the hell… I laughed my butt off in sections. First book...


There, There. Tommy Orange
Been hearing a lot about this novel so when it finally became available in the library, I jumped on it. Each chapter is a character study...


Serving the Servant, Danny Goldberg
The base of the book is the author’s subjective description of the time he was connected to Kurt Cobain (the last three and a half years...


Mobituaries, Mo Rocca
Mo talks about life and death and those that maybe got the raw end of the deal… that should be known by the general public, but aren’t....


Daring Greatly, Brene Brown
I skimmed through this book… just trying to get her perspective on how she writes and if anything popped out out to me. I much prefer...


Escape From the Land of Snows, Stephen Talty
The story of Dalai Lama’s escape to freedom to India from Lhasa, Tibet as a teenager. I’ve read the story before, even have maps of the...


From The Corner of the Oval, Beck Dorey-Stein
A great book that gives an insightful look of what working in the White House is really like, traveling with a President (Obama), and the...


100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, Lorrie Moore
It was interesting to see how in the 1990s there was a return to straight realism in literary fiction. Perhaps it was the response to the...


Reading Behind Bars, Jill Grunenwald
Jill’s story of how during the ugly recession, no job and bills to pay, drove her and her master’s degree to seek and acquire a job as a...