{Image Via} Since I heard people claim this was the best book they read out of a whole year of reading, I knew I had to check it out. I honestly did not know much about the book nor the…
{EE} Reads: Coming Clean
{Image Via} Late last summer, I read Amber C. Haines memoir, Wild in the Hollow, and I thought about it for weeks. Last fall, her husband, Seth, wrote his memoir of sorts called Coming Clean. This story follows his first ninety days of…
What I’m Reading: February 2016
{No books were harmed in obtaining this photo 🙂 } The Lord gave us books for these winter months, right?!?! I’ve been consuming copious amounts of hot tea while I enjoy a few more weeks of quite a bit of reading…
{EE} Reads: All the Light We Cannot See
{Image Via} Oh this book. After finishing All the Light We Cannot See the other day, there are just so many thoughts tumbling in my head, I’m not even sure where to begin! I guess first, and much more important than…
{EE} Reads: Nobody’s Cuter than You
{Image Via} As I mentioned in my What I’m Reading: January post, I finished this friendship memoir this month. The author, Melanie Shankle, is the writer behind the Big Mama blog as well as the author of two other memoirs…
{EE} Reads: Five Days at Memorial
Image Via Last August marked ten years since Hurricane Katrina decimated the city of New Orleans. While in NOLA in 2014, my husband and I toured a display at a local museum about the tragedy. Before that tour, I was extremely ignorant…
{EE} Reads: Garlic and Sapphires
{Image Via} First, I must implore you to not be remotely hungry when reading this delightful memoir, Garlic and Sapphires, written by former New York Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl. Lately, I have been eagerly consuming memoirs (see The Glass Castle &…
{EE} Reads: Still Life
{Image Via} Still Life by Christa Parrish begins with an unthinkable tragedy that leaves one of the main characters, Ava, grasping at the tattered threads of her new life, while Katherine, the other protagonist, is left in the wake of the…
{EE} Reads: Tidings of Comfort and Joy
{Image Via} I think it’s only fitting to review a Christmas book for the week of the highly anticipated holiday! Tidings of Comfort and Joy by T. Davis Bunn (who writes many, many other books I have enjoyed) is a…
{EE} Reads: Bloom
{Image Via} Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected is a rich, breathtakingly beautiful, achingly honest memoir written by a mother who finds out her second daughter has Down Syndrome on the day her daughter is born. Kelle Hampton shares her story with raw emotion,…
{EE} Reads: The Martian
The Martian is another bestseller that has been made into a movie, similar to The Book Thief. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from this book as I heard mixed reviews about the movie from various people. However, I haven’t seen…
{EE} Reads: The Glass Castle
{Image Via} I haven’t read many memoirs, but I love reading stories of all kinds and it’s especially riveting, I think, to read someone’s life story. Jeanette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, came highly recommended, and it definitely did not disappoint….
