Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2001) | Book Review
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Genres: Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2002 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing home aide, and a Walmart sales clerk. Nickel and Dimed reveal low-rent America in all its…
Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry (2008) | Book Review
Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry Genres: Memoir Original Publication Date: 2008 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon Larry McMurtry wrote books in many genres, from coming-of-age novels, such as The Last Picture Show to the reinvention of the “Western” on a grand scale like the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. He writes about himself as a boy growing up in a largely “bookless” world, as a young man devouring the world of literature, as a fledgling writer and family man, and above all as one of America’s most prominent screenwriters. He Is An Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize Winner Larry McMurtry is the author…
My Life in France by Julia Child (2006) | Book Review
My Life in France by Julia Child Genres: Food, Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2009 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, Julia Child was not always a master chef. Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work for the USIS, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets, and taking classes…
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell (2005) | Book Review
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell Genres: Food, Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2005 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Goodreads, Amazon Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell reclaims her life by cooking every single recipe in Julia Child’s legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking in the span of one year. It’s a hysterical, inconceivable redemptive journey — life rediscovered through aspics, calves’ brains, and créme brûlée. The somewhat controversial Julie and Julia tells the now-famous story of Julie Powell. Powell was working as a secretary in New York and living in Queens.…
Marie: A True Story by Peter Maas (1983)| Book Review
Marie: A True Story by Peter Maas Genres: Crime, History, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 1983 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Goodreads, Amazon Recounts the true experiences of Marie Ragghianti–former beauty queen, devout Catholic, and divorced working mother–and her courageous fight, in the face of disgrace and peril, against deep-seated political corruption in Tennessee. Marie: A True Story is about Marie Ragghianti, the woman who blew the whistle on the corrupt Tennessee government in the 1970s. Peter Maas was famous for his book on Frank Serpico, a whistleblower in the New York City Police Department. He also wrote other fine books about crime. But my favorite is…
