nonfiction

"Unwasted"

my take: Another book on addiction/recovery … this is a memoir of an alcoholic on how she learned to live …

How to be a Woman

my take: Whoa. This was a tough one. The first few chapters had the book chicks emailing to see if …

"This is How"

my take: One of my ladies in recovery suggested this … she was gleaning great truths and underlining multiple passages. …

"Flunking Sainthood"

my take: What’s not to love about a self-depricating woman? Jana Riess says in the preface, “I am going to …

Help Thanks Wow

my take: Anne Lamott is my soul-sister twin born from another mother. In her latest work she gives the shortcut …

"The Geography of Bliss"

my take: I love to travel and the lure of potential great places to visit motivated me to buy & …

A Primate’s Memoir

my take: Our book club loved this … everybody had something to say and everybody read it! As a fan …

The Devil’s Highway

my take: I read this in preparation for the Festival of Faith and Writing. It’s a pretty serious book – …

Getting Things Done

my take: In a chapter in the book Willpower, a professional organizer helps Drew Carey get his office life together. …

A Simple Act of Gratitude

my take: I read this in a day … a little book with lots of inspiration. I include gratitude suggestions …

"House of Prayer No. 2"

My take: This memoir left me breathless. I’ve never read a memoir written with such urgency. I kept waiting for …

Food Rules

my take: I read The Omnivore’s Dilemma a couple years ago (my copy is at Lakewood Family Medicine if anyone …

Willpower

my take: This is right up my alley … informative, practical, full of anecdotal stories, (some of very famous people), …

Will in the World

my take: this year for Book Chicks we wanted something slightly more exciting and engaging in the biography/autobiography category. And …

Population: 485

my take: The subtitle tells it all: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time.  Each chapter tells something about …

Blink

my take: Don’t tell my cousin Joe that I really liked this book. A while back another cousin posted an …

Bittersweet

my take: This is Shauna’s second book. I related a bit better to Cold Tangerines, which was more about enjoying …