Something Inside of Me: How to Hang on to Heaven When You Are Going Through Hell by Chitoka Webb | Book Review
Something Inside of Me: How to Hang on to Heaven When You Are Going Through Hell by Chitoka Webb Genres: Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2011 Source: Advanced Reading Copy from the publisher. Goodreads Find the Author: Goodreads, Amazon Something Inside of Me: the inspiring story of how one woman’s journey through poverty and debilitating illness catapulted her to the halls of power as a successful businesswoman. Long before selling secondhand belongings on eBay and Craigslist was the rage, a preteen Chitoka Webb sold what others saw as junk to the residents of her neighborhood and made a profit. Without a college degree, through tenacity, grit, and a healthy dose…
Life Itself: A Memoir by Roger Ebert | Book Review
Life Itself: A Memoir by Roger Ebert Genres: Illness, Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2011 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon Life Itself: Roger Ebert began reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1967 and was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. He has appeared on television for four decades. In 2006, complications from thyroid cancer treatment resulted in the loss of his ability to eat, drink, or speak. But with the loss of his voice, Ebert has only become a more prolific and influential writer. And now, for the first time, he tells the full, dramatic story of his…
Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned About Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat by Gwen Cooper | Book Review
Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned About Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat, by Gwen Cooper Genres: Animals, Memoir, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2009 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Blog, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon Homer’s odyssey: Gwen Cooper’s veterinarian called her about a three-week-old eyeless kitten who’d been abandoned. It was love at first sight. Everyone warned that Homer would always be an “underachiever.” But the kitten nobody believed in quickly grew into a three-pound dynamo with a giant heart who eagerly made friends with every human who crossed his path. But it was Homer’s unswerving loyalty, his infinite capacity…
The Little Women Letters by Gabrielle Donnelly | Book Review
Little Women Letters by Gabrielle Donnelly Genres: Fiction, British Literature Original Publication Date: 2011 Source: Advanced Reading Copy from the publisher. Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon The Little Women Letters: With her older sister, Emma, planning a wedding and her younger sister, Sophie, preparing to launch a career on the London stage, Lulu can’t help but feel like the failure of the Atwater family. Lulu loves her sisters dearly and wants nothing but the best for them, but she finds herself stuck in a rut, with no romantic prospects in sight. Then Lulu stumbles across a collection of letters written by her great-great-grandmother Josephine March. As she delves…
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson | Book Review
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson Genres: Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2010 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Goodreads, Amazon In Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M., Sam Wasson immerses us in the America of the late fifties, before Woodstock and birth control, when a not-so-virginal girl by the name of Holly Golightly raised eyebrows across the nation, changing fashion, film, and sex, for good. But that was the easy part. Getting Audrey there—and getting the right people behind her—was the tough part. With the heart of a novelist and the eye of a critic,…
