autobiography

Another Great Autobiography: Out Of Sheer Rage

My first post about great autobiographies was well received, and I like to read them, so I’m going to keep the series going. Now, when you think of autobiographies, you might picture a massive tome that starts when the subject is born–or well before, going back through their parent’s lives, or even their parent’s lives–but [...]

August 24, 2010 READ MORE →

Three Great Autobiographies About Very Different Subjects

Since I learned how to read yesterday, I spent the whole afternoon with these book things.  They’re really good!  Especially these autobiographies I grabbed. You may have heard that “everyone has a story worth hearing.” Maybe that’s true, maybe it isn’t. Either way, I have read some terrible autobiographies. For every wonderful book like The [...]

October 9, 2009 READ MORE →

Two Great Books By Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is an author everyone should try.  Some people can’t stand anything he does, but I am not one of them.  Anyone that can’t see beauty in at least parts of Eggers’s work ain’t breathing.  I’ve been a fan from the first page of A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius. A Heartbreaking Work Of [...]

August 26, 2009 READ MORE →

Book Review: The Burn Journals

When I was in high school, everyone was always revving at fever pitch. The smallest issues were always blown out of proportion–but at the same time, everything felt so real. The author is in his early teens at the beginning of the book. For reasons that don’t make much sense to him (or us), he [...]

April 9, 2009 READ MORE →