Archive for the ‘Memoir’ Category
Book Review: “A Pearl In the Storm, How I Lost My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean,” By Tori Murden-McClure Reviewed by: Renee Weinberger Rating: Excellent, a must read A Pearl in the Storm details one woman’s journey across the Atlantic in a row boat. This is not a book about the weather or [...]
Review by Heather Froeschl Rating: A Good Book A memoir with a twist, “Switched at Birth: My Life in Someone Else’s World” by Frederick J. George examines the coincidences of life. Placed in the wrong bassinet in the hospital, Frederick didn’t confirm the switch until he was 57, and the parents he had grown up [...]
Author: Heather Summerhayes Cariou ISBN-10: 1552786781 Review by Heather Froeschl Rating: A Great Book! Bonds between sisters can be deeply profound. Life changing, life sustaining relationships with our sisters prove this. Heather Summerhayes Cariou’s memoir, “Sixtyfive Roses” demonstrates the bond of sisterhood in a way that readers will never forget. When your sibling, your best [...]
Author: Jeannette Wells ISBN-10: 074324754X Rating: A Great Book Reviewed by: Lynn Peterson I think anybody can look back at their childhood and their parents and say that their parents made this or that mistake. It’s easy to see what they have done wrong or could have done better. When Wells tells her story, it’s [...]
Author: Chuck Bravedy ISBN: 1-4241-7689-1 Review by Heather Froeschl Rating: A Good Book Every day since the war in Iraq began, Americans are shown what the media is allowed to share about the statistics, the causes, the costs, the plans and the hopeful outcome. But do we really know what is going on; do we [...]