This review originally appeared in the Left Hand Valley Courier, March 22 edition. Some of my friends have called me a “keeper of stories,” and as much as I take pride in that title, I don’t feel as though I’ve lived enough to be a keeper of my own stories yet. Instead, I collect others’, [...]
This review was written for the Left Hand Valley Courier, in partnership with Inkberry Books and will appear in the Nov. 22 edition of the paper. You all are getting a sneak peek! I don't read memoirs very often, which is a shame because they are so unique and interesting. That's certainly the case with [...]
You know that feeling of when you remember something but it's almost like you're just remembering the last time you remembered it...and it doesn't exactly feel real? That's similar to the vibe I got Alan Parry's poetry collection Echoes. (Oh, and here's a link to my vlog review, as well as my author interview) What [...]
I'm always excited to review books for the Left Hand Valley Courier! While this is not explicitly an Inkberry Book, it was a book recommended by one of the paper's readers. I've said before that I enjoy memoirs and expressed hope that I'd read more nonfiction, so I was excited at the chance to read [...]
I always love partnering with Inkberry Books from Niwot because they always hook me up with the coolest books! This week, I took a look at Mohamed Asem's Stranger in the Pen and I thoroughly enjoyed it! (By the way, click here to check out my vlog!) This is a nonfiction memoir of Asem, mostly focusing [...]
I first was given Yogi Cameron's The Yogi Code a few years ago when I started semi-regularly going to yoga classes in college. I started reading it then, but only got probably a chapter and a half into the book because it wasn't the right time for me to read it. Now, after about fifty days of [...]
In college, I majored in communication, and not the useful, PR kind. I majored in the super academic, "but what does it mean?" kind. So, between my appreciation for rhetorical, and otherwise, analysis and for British sit-coms, I was instantly drawn to and amused by Richard Ayoade's Ayoade on Top. However, the book itself took my interest [...]
I can't mince words here. Naja Marie Aidt's poetic-memoir When Death Takes Something from You Give it Back: Carl's Book is heavy. In it, she explores grief and love relating to her then-25 year-old son's death in 2015.(For the accompanying vlog, click here!) Right off the bat, I'm going to say that if death is [...]
Truthfully, I'm not sure what possessed me when I picked up Jen Lancaster's Bright Lights, Big Ass, years ago. Typically, I don't even like memoirs, I tend to gravitate more toward fiction. So, when I set out to pick out a book for this week's post, I didn't go in with any expectations. But, man alive, [...]
A Little Bit of Happiness 