Bobblehead Dad: 25 Life Lessons I Forgot I Knew by Jim Higley (2011) | Book Review
Bobblehead Dad: 25 Life Lessons I Forgot I Knew by Jim Higley Genres: Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2011 Source: I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Blog, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon Jim Higley was a forty-year-old bobblehead. Just like those collectible figurines with oversized, bouncy heads, he’d put on a smiling face and bobble through his hectic, overflowing days. Higley’s bobbling came to a screeching halt with the diagnosis of cancer, surgery, and a summer of healing. More than a cancer story, however, Bobblehead Dad puts you in a front-row seat as the author discovers the illuminating parallels between…
Borneo Tom: Stories and Sketches of Love, Travel and Jungle Family in Tropical Asia by Tom McLaughlin | Book Review
Borneo Tom: Stories and Sketches of Love, Travel and Jungle Family in Tropical Asia by Tom McLaughlin Genres: Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2010 Source: I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon Science Teacher Tom McLaughlin battled a rare neurological disease to a standstill, packed up his life and moved to Malaysian Borneo from a Washington D.C. suburb. Landing in Kuching, he quickly learned the Malay language and involved himself in projects which include orangutan rehabilitation and research about the famed naturalist, From dancing naked in an earthquake in Sumatra to getting lost in a warren of…
Retail Hell: How I Sold My Soul to the Store – Confessions of a Tortured Sales Associate by Freeman Hall (2009) | Book Review
Retail Hell: How I Sold My Soul to the Store-Confessions of a Tortured Sales Associate by Freeman Hall by Freeman Hall Genres: Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2009 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Blog, Goodreads, Amazon This is a place Freeman Hall, a twenty-year veteran “on the floor,” knows well. While delivering side-splitting stories alongside brutally cynical commentary, Freeman recounts his most shocking experiences in Retail Hell. From the time he was attacked by a customer’s four-year-old, who grabbed onto his leg like a poodle and wouldn’t let go, to the day he found the fitting room walls covered in s**t, Freeman has seen and heard…
Do Tampons Take Your Virginity? (2010) by Marie Simas | Book Review
Do Tampons Take Your Virginity?: A Catholic Girl's Memoir by Marie Simas Genres: Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2010 Source: I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Goodreads Find the Author: Goodreads, Amazon What happens when you grow up in an insane Catholic family? Surprisingly funny, Do Tampons Take Your Virginity shows readers the endurance it takes to survive in a stifling, abusive childhood. It’s an emotional roller coaster from start to finish, fiercely honest and sincere. From the very beginning, the author grapples with hilarious, uncomfortable situations, punctuated by episodes of childhood brutality. These stories will make you laugh out loud, and some…
Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal by Julie Metz (2009) | Book Review
Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal by Julie Metz Genres: Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2009 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Blog, Goodreads, Amazon, Instagram Perfection? Julie Metz’s life changes forever on one ordinary January afternoon when her husband, Henry, collapses on the kitchen floor and dies in her arms. Suddenly, this mother of a six-year-old is a young widow in a bucolic small town. And this is only the beginning. Seven months after Henry’s death, just when Julie thinks she is emerging from the worst of it, comes the rest of it: She discovers that what had appeared to be the reality of…
