Full disclosure, I was a huge fan of the Little House on the Prairie television series when I was growing up and even went so far as to buy all the DVD box sets as an adult. I bought this book for myself at the end of last year, and I was excited to find a few hours to finish this one before the end of this year. Alison Arngrim (aka Nellie Oleson) shares not … Read More “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim” »
Category: Memoir
Hill Women is a memoir about life in and around Appalachia, especially focused on the author, Cassie Chambers, and her mother and grandmother. Her memoir compares the lives of her grandmother (with very little education, who met her 30-something-year-old husband when she was a young teenager,) to her mother (who fought for a local college education while married and raising a baby,) to Cassie herself (an Ivy League graduate and Harvard lawyer.) The author emphasizes … Read More “Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers” »
As the parent of a young child with cystic fibrosis, this is the book I wish all my friends would read. This not only conveys my fears for my child, but also my hope for him to be a “normal” teenager, have his own dreams, fall in love, grow old, and everything else that a parent of a “healthy” child takes for granted. Salt in My Soul is made up of lightly journal edited entries … Read More “Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life by Mallory Smith” »