Showing posts with label biography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biography. Show all posts
Monday, July 13, 2026

Family of Spies by Christine Kuehn

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Kuehn didn't know the story of her family until a filmmaker sent her a lettter. At first, she ignores it, thinking that it must be a mis...
Thursday, July 9, 2026

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Hotter by Laura Clery

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Clery is a well-known internet personality whose most memorable character is probably Pamela Pumpkin. I didn't know much about her but I...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

When I Was Your Age by Kenan Thompson

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I love a biography read by the author and this book proves excatly why. Thompson is open about his life, starting from his time in Georgia a...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Funny Man Patrick McGilligan

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A deep dive into the life of Mel Brooks. This book starts, as many good books do, at the beginning, with Brooks' birth in 1926. The whol...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

Freedom by Angela Merkel, narrator Juliet Stevenson

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I was a little intimidated by the 27 hour listening time but was intrigued by a woman who I only knew a little about. And I'm glad that ...
Saturday, May 16, 2026

You Wanna Be on Top? by Sarah Hartshorne

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I didn't pay attention to the subtitle when I reserved this book. I didn't realize this was a memoir and thought this was a history ...
Friday, May 15, 2026

You with the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate

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I've been on a run of celebrity biographies lately and have to say that I enjoyed this one. Applegate talks about most of the things tha...
Monday, March 30, 2026

How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay by Jenny Lawson

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I've enjoyed Lawson's books since the first one came out and started reading her blog soon after. She lays bare a lot of her life bu...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNally

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I picked up this book on a whim, enjoying both the cover and the title. McNally has certainly lived an interesting and varied life including...
Monday, March 2, 2026

I Haven't Been Entirely Honest by Miranda Hart

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I knew of Miranda Hart from her show, "Miranda," and didn't look to closely at what this book was before requesting it from th...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

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Recent biographies I've led have seemed rather shallow. This, is not one of those. Brady lays out all of her stories and experiences in ...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Say Everything by Ione Skye

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A pretty deep look into a life many people may believe they already know. There's more introspection in this book than we get in some ce...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Sister Wife by Christine Brown Woolley

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I listened to this book right after I finished Becoming Sister Wives. It was really lovely to hear it in Christine's own voice. And, tho...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage Kody Brown with Robyn Brown, Meri Brown, Christine Brown

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If you go in not expecting much, this is a perfectly fine book.  It starts with Kody talking about their first live appearance after the sho...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

The Book of Sheen by Charlie Sheen

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An interesting listen. Sheen did a good job as narrator and hearing the stories in an author's own voice always makes it a little more r...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Entitled by Andrew Lownie

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An interesting look at the relationship of Prince Andrew and Fergie. There was a lot of information but it felt somewhat surface level (whic...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

100 Rules for Living to 100 by Dick Van Dyke

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A collection of short stories taken from the life of Dick Van Dyke. Some are happy, some are sad, some are matter-of-fact. There are stories...
Monday, November 10, 2025

A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost

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Arguably, the things people best know Colin Jost for is being on SNL and marrying Scarlett Johansson. This book gives him a little more dept...
Monday, November 3, 2025

Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara

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Will outlines his moves throughout the restaurant industry, even working for Danny Meyer who is famous for his own book about hospitality. L...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell

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I was really expecting more with a subtitle like "Notes on Modern Irrationality." Really, most of this boiled down to concepts tha...