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This book details the fascinating life of John Elder Robison growing up with Asperger’s syndrome, before it had a name. As if that weren’t hard enough, he does this with Augusten Burroughs parents. True, John Elder Robison is Augusten’s brother. His life is just as exciting with a stint as a sound magician for KISS, fiery inferno bathtubs and wacky stunts, I couldn’t put it down.
Tagged: Autism spectrum, Memoir, Non-fiction
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This is a very engaging and readable recounting of the Pilgrims’ trip to America and their early years in Plymouth. It gives a vivid account of what life was like and the issues they had to deal with.
Tagged: History, Non-fiction
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As an expecting first time parent, this book was recommended to me and it is just superb. Lamott, in her honest and insightful way, journals the first year of life with her son. She writes about all the fears and frustrations of raising a baby (in her case as a single parent) that most people are afraid to talk about. It is very encouraging and funny.
Tagged: Babies, Memoir, Motherhood, Non-fiction
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Catchy, easy to groove to pop with lots of gentle melodies and enchanting beats.
Tagged: Pop music
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From the Shins to Simon and Garfunkel to Iron and Wine this soundtrack has lots of shining moments.
Tagged: Pop music, Rock music
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A time bending tale of love trying to stretch to its limits. This science fiction film has characters who win you with their believability and their commitment never to give up on love.
Tagged: Feature film, Science fiction
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In 1925, given only a year to live by his doctor, Henry Stuart leaves his home and grown sons in Idaho to move to the woods on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, Alabama, where he builds a round house and lives for more than two decades, while visitors make a pilgrimage to visit him on the property he names after Leo Tolstoy. Very quirky, yet lovable character.
Tagged: Fiction
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Emerson is considered to be a man of mythic proportions. His influence on his era was incalculable and extends forward into our own. What made a man who was unremarkable and uninspired into a legend who started a philosophy (Transcendentalism) and spurred others into action on large causes (women’s suffrage, anti-slavery, etc…)? Gougeon explores these tantalizing questions.
Tagged: Biography, Non-fiction
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A brief but hilarious introduction to Western philosophy as told through jokes. Learn while you laugh.
Tagged: Humor, Non-fiction, Philosophy
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A close look into the intriguing Amish practice of “turning loose” their youth at 16, and its results. Included is the author’s perspective on this society within a society and what that could mean to us.
Tagged: Non-fiction, Sociology
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Armstrong is a well-known biographer and author on religious and cultural subjects. This memoir is her most personal to date and helps us to understand her interest in the subjects she so skillfully covers, as a person with one foot in the world of the secular and the other in the sacred. She does not skirt around the difficult questions but shows rare candor.
Tagged: Memoir, Non-fiction
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Oates brings to life both Lincoln’s deep humanity and personal struggles, and his genius in guiding the nation through the Civil War despite political pressures on all sides (not least from his own cabinet). If you don’t have a profound respect for Abraham Lincoln as our greatest president, you will after reading this book.
Tagged: Abraham Lincoln, Biography, Non-fiction, U.S. presidents