Memoir

#83 ~ Admit One

Admit One: A Journey into Film by Emmett James When I was offered the opportunity to read this memoir, I was extremely excited. I’ve always loved movies and this love is something my husband and I share in common. Danny studied to work in film during college, where he worked very hard to create and [...]

Filed Under: Books, Family, LIfe, Memoir, Reading Tagged With: Admit One, Croydon, Dirty Dancing, Emmett James, Film, growing up in England, Hollywood actor, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, It's a Wonderful Life, James Cameron, Kathy Bates, Los Angeles, Love is a Mix Tape, Mountain Lake, South London, The Jungle Book, Titanic

#76 ~ Trespassers will be Baptized

3 Jun By Literate Housewife 4 Comments

Trespassers Will Be Baptized: The Unordained Memoir of a Preacher’s Daughter by Elizabeth Emerson Hancock Trespassers will be Baptized tells the story of Elizabeth Emerson Hancock’s early childhood as the oldest daughter of a Southern Baptist preacher living in Kentucky. Miss Em was a precocious little girl who grew up certain that she knew exactly [...]

Filed Under: Books, Childhood Memories, Family, LIfe, Memoir, Religion Tagged With: A Girl Named Zippy, Childhood Memories, Elizabeth Emerson Hancock, growing up in Kentucky, Guess jeans, Haven Kimmel, Memoir, oldest child, preacher's children, Southern Baptist, Trespassers will be Baptized

#68 ~ Love is a Mix Tape

4 May By Literate Housewife 10 Comments

Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield I found out about this book from Pop Candy, my favorite pop culture blog written by Whitney Matheson. As soon as I found out what this memoir was about, I had to buy it.. It tells the story of [...]

Filed Under: Books, College Life, Inspiration, LIfe, Memoir, My Life with Books, Reading Tagged With: Ancient Astronauts, Beverly Hillbillies, Charlottesville, China Doll, D&C, Died Pretty, Greensboro, Hollins, HoneyPoison, Julian Cope, Love is a Mix Tape, Michael Stipe, Miracle Legion, mix tapes, Pop Candy, Pulaski, R.E.M., Renee Crist, Roanoke, Rob Sheffield, Talk about the Clampetts, Talk about the Passion, Towering Inferno, University of Virginia, Whitney Matheson, You're the One Lee, ZenLauda

Without an ARC

29 Apr By Literate Housewife 6 Comments

For the past week it seems as though all it’s done is rain, and I’m without an ARC. Please don’t read that as a complaint, though. I have two on the way: Love Marriage by V.V. Ganeshananthan through LibraryThing‘s Early Reviewers for April and Songs for the Missing by Stewart O’Nan through Barnes & Nobles’ [...]

Filed Under: Barnes & Noble, Books, entertainment, Family, First Look Book Club, Free, LibraryThing, LIfe, Memoir, My Life with Books, Reading, What's Up Tagged With: ARC, Barnes & Noble, Cerak, Charlottesville, Dateline NBC, Early Reviewers, First Look Book Club, Grand Rapids, it's a small world, LibraryThing, Love is a Mix Tape, Love Marriage, Mistaken Identity, Nan, Renee Crist, Roanoke, Rob Sheffield, Songs for the Missing, spring rain, Stewart O, Taylor University car accident, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Van Ryn

#60 ~ Eat, Pray, Love

27 Feb By Literate Housewife 8 Comments

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert I don’t typically read books about food. For whatever reason, I get bored reading paragraphs filled with nothing but food preparatory details. Knowing this about myself, I never considered even picking up this book off of the shelf to [...]

Filed Under: Books, Disappointment, Memoir, Religion, Worst of the Year Tagged With: ashram, divorce, Eat, Elizabeth Gilbert, George W. Bush, India, Indonesia, Italian, Italy, liberal street cred, Losing My Religion, Love, misuse of music lyrics, Pray, spiritual journey, Swammy G, worst book this year

#55 ~ Stealing Buddha’s Dinner

27 Jan By Literate Housewife 5 Comments

Stealing Buddha’s Dinner: A Memoir by Bich Minh Nguyen Sometime toward the end of the year I was adding some books to my library on LibraryThing and wanted to add a book I received from my parents for Christmas the year before. It is a book of vintage postcards from Grand Rapids, my home town. [...]

Filed Under: Books, Childhood Memories, Culture, Disappointment, Family, LibraryThing, LIfe, Memoir, Religion Tagged With: Bich Minh Nguyen, Calvin College, Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, he Little House on the Prarie, Michigan, midwest, Roman Catholic, TStealing Buddha's Dinner, Vietnamese immigrants, WASP, worshiping Mary

#47 ~ Without a Map

11 Nov By Literate Housewife 2 Comments

Without a Map: A Memoir by Meredith Hall I am angry. Correction. I am pissed. Really, I’m f*cking pissed off after reading this book. I am angry and hurt for Meredith in specific and for all women in general. That one woman should have lived through a teenage pregnancy is horrific to me. That this [...]

Filed Under: Adoption, Beach, Books, Childhood Memories, Culture, Inspiration, LIfe, Memoir, Parenting Dilemmas, Post-Partum Depression, Reading, Religion, Secrets and Lies, Sexual Identity, Writing Tagged With: boundaries, divorce, forgiveness, hippy, lack of boundaries, Meredith Hall, MS, New Hampshire, reunions, sex, shame, teenage pregnancy, Without a Map

If I Had a Hammer

13 Sep By Literate Housewife 1 Comment

I like Rosie O’Donnell. I used to watch her talk show frequently and it was sure to make me laugh. She made A League of Their Own for me. I may not always agree with her politics, but I tune out when celebrities talk about that for the most part anyway. I don’t personally turn to [...]

Filed Under: Books, Childhood Memories, LIfe, Memoir, Post-Partum Depression

#33 ~ Special Topics in Calamity Physics

8 Aug By Literate Housewife 6 Comments

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl Just 75 pages into Special Topics in Calamity Physics, I knew that I was going to enjoy it. When what I was reading spoke to me personally in conjunction with an outside conversation I had just moments before reading it, I knew that I was reading something [...]

Filed Under: Amazing Narrator, Books, Brain Food for Thought, Childhood Memories, Inspiration, LIfe, Marisha Pessl, Memoir, My Life with Books, Reading, Secrets and Lies Tagged With: Blue van Meer, Bluebloods, father/daughter relationship, Hannah Schnieder, James Joyce, losing a parent, Marisha Pessl, nomadic childhood, refreshing read, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, St. Gallway, Ulysses

#20 ~ The Mistress’s Daughter

30 Apr By Literate Housewife 2 Comments

The Mistress’s Daughter by A.M. Homes After reading a review of this book, I was eager to read it. It is the story of A.M. (Amy) Homes, an author and an adopted child. This memoir explores her experiences as she learns that her biological mother would like to contact her and her journey through reunion. As [...]