By Bob Cherny on May 5, 2012
This is a light, loving reminiscence of a career working within one of the most public of public companies in the world. It is the chronicle of a man who touched millions of lives and whose influence is easy to understate standing as he did in the shadows of people who saw themselves as larger than life.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Robert H. Cherny | Tagged disney, disney book, disney memoir, in service to the mouse, jack lindquist, melinda j. combs, mickey mouse, walt disney |
By Shannon Yarbrough on April 5, 2012
Imagine being the outsider amongst a dozen siblings. You are the one who is eager to fit in and be a good worker like your older brothers, but you are labeled “worthless” by your father. You yearn for the attention of your mother, but she is too busy raising your younger siblings and attending to the family household.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amish childhood, amish memoir, amish nonfiction, childhood abuse, childhood memoir, orva schrock, worthless boy |
By Lloyd Lofthouse on April 4, 2012
“Yes China” by Clark Nielsen is an honest memoir written by a young American going to China to teach English in an alien and foreign culture. Nielsen pulls no punches in describing himself and his experiences teaching ESL in China, and is not shy when it comes to scorching himself and his former religion in the process.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Lloyd Lofthouse, Travel | Tagged china, china memoir, china nonfiction, china travel, clark nielsen, lloyd lofthouse, yes china |
By Bob Cherny on November 16, 2011
Eleanor Roosevelt’s impact on current American culture is easy to underestimate. This book puts her back in her rightful place in her historical era as well as pointing out the initiatives she started that continue to this day. In spite of the power of her words and the strength of the coalitions she assembled, the battles she fought continue to be fought.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Robert H. Cherny | Tagged Ann Atkins, eleanor roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt's Life of Soul Searching and Self-Discovery, flash history, flash history press |
By Jaime Hypes on September 15, 2011
Craig Machen is a bad boy, or was a bad boy (if you can ever really shake that persona). It’s not entirely his fault, though. Rather, it is a result of a series of unfortunate life circumstances that led him to be self-destructive. Sex, drugs, rock and roll, and strippers. ‘Still Life With Brass Pole’ has it all- in excess. It is a drug and alcohol-induced road trip on which Machen takes the reader in this coming-of-age memoir.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Jaime Hypes | Tagged coming of age memoir, craig machen, drug alcohol memoir, still life with brass pole |
By Peter Hassebroek on June 24, 2011
Against the intense drama of ilms like Apocalypse Now, Platoon, The Deer Hunter, and so on, Frank Jolliff’s memoir, 365 and a Wake-Up, paints a comparatively benign picture. That contributes to both its strengths and its drawbacks.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, Peter Hassebroek, Reviews | Tagged book review, draft, frank jolliff, memoir, vietnam |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 8, 2011
As I think back to what I learned from reading S. Stanley’s memoirs and contemplate how this review should begin, I recall a commercial for Google Chrome which highlights Dan Savage’s It Gets Better Organization, providing positive and encouraging messages for gay youth. Several videos in the series were posted by gay seniors doting that “It gets better with age!” Truer words were never spoken when it comes to describing Gordon’s autobiography entitled My Two Wives and Three Husbands.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged gay memoir, it gets better, joe henry, my two wives and three husbands, s. stanley gordon, theater memoir |
By Shannon Yarbrough on April 28, 2011
Jana Pryor witnessed it all. Her grandmother, Jane, suffered for 5 years from Alzheimers and Jana was her caretaker for every day of it. The book is Jane’s eye witness account. Told in 9 chapters, a quick 90 pages, Jana takes you through each slow stage from beginning to end.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Educational, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged alzheimer's killing me unknowingly, alzheimers, alzheimers book, alzheimers help, jana pryor, jane's story |
By Shannon Yarbrough on April 26, 2011
Having considered becoming a foster parent just last year, I was more than willing to read and review Dennis Harris’s book, Foster Child. It is the true account of the author growing up as a ward of the state. Dennis was born in DC and became an orphan at a very early age when his working Mom could no longer afford to take care of him. Unfortunately for him, he remained in a city operated orphanage for much of his youth until he eventually entered foster care.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged being an orphan, dennis harris, foster care, foster child, foster child experience, foster child first hand account, foster confession, orphan first hand account, orphanage |
