Title: Convictions of a Chef: Cooking for the Counterculture and the One Percent Author: Evan Marcus-Rotman Genre: Memoir In Convictions of a Chef, Marcus-Rotman serves up a prison, culinary, and travel memoir liberally sprinkled with spiritual growth, self-reflection, and recreational drugs.
Title: From Matzah Balls to Communion Wafers: How a Not-So Kosher Jewish Girl Fell in Love with Jesus Author: Gail Baker Genre: Spiritual Memoir This book comprises the episodic real-life recollections of a daughter, wife, and mother as she journeys through her liberal Jewish upbringing and subsequent spiritual struggles following her son’s bouts with depression and… Read More From Matzah Balls to Communion Wafers – Editorial Review
Mud, Sweat, and Tears – Guest Review Post My grandmother and I both share similar tastes in reading–classics and biographies/autobiographies. This Christmas, she gave me a copy of Bear Gryll’s autobiography, Mud, Sweat, and Tears.
The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo Memoirs from female comedians seem to be coming fast and furious these days. Books by Mindy Kaling, Tina Fey, Anna Kendrick, etc. are all examples of this extremely popular trend in books right now. Personally, I hate trends, I’m the person with a giant scowl on my face as people… Read More The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo – Book Review
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