This Is Big by Marisa Meltzer made me think about what the role of an editor is in a memoir. Is it to press them to explore issues they gloss over or just to edit to work for clarity? It must be difficult to edit what is a living person’s account of their own life … Continue reading
Author Archives: Rachel Rappaport
If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie by Christopher Ingraham
I was hoping this would be a fun book to read during day 18 of quarantine but what a disappointment. Being from the area where he moved from gave me some insight other readers might not have. I don’t buy any of the reasons why he felt like he had to move. It was a … Continue reading
End of 2019
I did not keep my 2019 goal of updating this blog regularly but then it wasn’t ever updated regularly anyway, at least not since I was doing the adult summer reading program back in 2017. Which, by the way, I won that year and both years since. The problem is that I read a … Continue reading
essays / memoir / nonfiction
Enough: Notes From a Woman Who Has Finally Found It by Shauna Ahern
I have to admit that a good bit of the reason I wanted to read this book is that I had read fellow (now former for her) food blogger, Ahern’s earlier memoir/self-help book, Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back…And How You Can Too ten years ago and in it, she hints … Continue reading
The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy
There needs to be a new subgenre of books that describe a book where something mysterious happens but that at the heart of the book is family-centered general fiction. I’ve read many books where a teenage girl disappears but the book is mostly about what is going on in the town vs. a true mystery or investigation. … Continue reading
Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer
Another mashup of memoir and some research, this time into female friendship, Text Me When You Get Home was a peek into a bit of a different world for me. I could not relate to the bulk of this book at all, the author was desperate for friends and acceptance in a way that I can’t … Continue reading
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
I have not had great luck with books this month. Even ones I really looked forward to like the new Meg Wolitzer didn’t really grab me. I must have started and stopped a dozen books this month. I had high hopes for Then She Was Gone. I’ve read Lisa Jewell’s books since college. Back then … Continue reading
