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Three Cups of Decei...

Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way, by Jon Krakauer. Anchor (2011) 96...

posted on: Oct 12, 2011 | author: Donna

What a disheartening year it’s been for those of us who want to believe that an author’s subsequent book...

posted on: Jul 2, 2011 | author: Donna

Did we really need a new book in which the author (according to the most recent issue of Publishers Weekly) “peppers the...

posted on: Apr 26, 2010 | author: Donna

Who doesn’t love a vintage photograph from the author’s childhood on the cover of her memoir? When the image is just right,...

posted on: Oct 25, 2009 | author: Donna

HarperCollins has made a horrendous, unfathomable decision that will surely be studied in future college marketing courses in...

posted on: Oct 15, 2009 | author: Donna

This month I read two memoirs that I would be giving glowing reviews to, if only they had employed quotation marks. Is anyone...

posted on: Sep 12, 2009 | author: Donna

A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey. Random House (2004), 448 pages. A memoir is one person’s...

posted on: Aug 15, 2009 | author: Cindy

The following words and phrases have no business in a decent book: FBI CIA Washington insider sophisticated weaponry special...

posted on: Aug 13, 2009 | author: Donna