Book #178 of 2025: 107 Days by Kamala Harris Plenty of books have been written about modern politics, but the most obvious comparison point for this particular one is probably Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign memoir What Happened, produced in the wake of her loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 election for president. Kamala Harris …
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Book Review: Come My Boys: Memoirs Of Thirty-Four Years On The American Stage And A Lifetime In Theta Delta Chi by Norman Hackett
Book #166 of 2025: Come My Boys: Memoirs Of Thirty-Four Years On The American Stage And A Lifetime In Theta Delta Chi by Norman Hackett I have the dubious honor of being the first person on Goodreads to ever review this title, which was printed in 1960 for a very specific audience. Norman Hackett was …
Book Review: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Book #89 of 2025: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams I first heard about this book through the news that Facebook had unsuccessfully sued to prevent its publication, which of course cemented my desire to read the thing. It’s easy to see why the company’s not happy, …
Book Review: Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler
Book #65 of 2025: Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler All I really knew about this memoir before picking it up was that its author Anna Marie Tendler was the comedian John Mulaney‘s ex-wife. That caught my attention less in hopes of learning salacious details about their separation and more for the …
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Book Review: The Autobiography of Mark Twain edited by Charles Neider
Book #43 of 2025: The Autobiography of Mark Twain edited by Charles Neider Mark Twain (1835-1910) didn’t actually write an autobiography. That is to say, he wrote — and dictated — many things over the last forty years of his life that he characterized as part of that great undertaking, but they were disjointed, incomplete, …
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Book Review: The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop
Book #167 of 2024: The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop I knew vaguely that actress Kelly Bishop — most iconic to my generation as the matriarch Emily on the show Gilmore Girls — had been one of the original cast members of the Broadway musical A Chorus Line when she was younger. What I …
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Book Review: On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci, M.D.
Book #122 of 2024: On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci, M.D. Dr. Anthony Fauci may not have become a household name until the recent COVID-19 pandemic, but that experience capped off a long and distinguished career in patient care, scientific research, and public health policy. In this 2024 autobiography, the …
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Book Review: One Way Back by Christine Blasey Ford
Book #112 of 2024: One Way Back by Christine Blasey Ford Author Christine Blasey Ford doesn’t spend much time in this new memoir belaboring the sexual assault she experienced as a teenager at the hands of future Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. As she notes, the whole world watched her testimony at his confirmation hearing …
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Book Review: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Book #99 of 2024: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie Interesting yet somewhat rambling, though short enough overall that that discursiveness doesn’t bother me too much. I’ve never read any Salman Rushdie before, but I was attracted to this title by the story behind it, which I saw the author describe on …
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Book Review: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
Book #68 of 2024: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama As a follow-up to her acclaimed 2018 title Becoming, this 2022 release from former First Lady Michelle Obama isn’t nearly so noteworthy. Whereas that debut work was a powerful but straightforward memoir, this one blends the autobiographical genre with self-help, …
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