Content tagged with "memoir"
Here are some notes I took on the acquisition of this book:
I bought this for my brother for Christmas, but he already had a copy.
I originally thought this was just the transcript of The Last Lecture video, but it’s more than that. It’s an expansion of the principles Pausch discussed in TLL, which basically becomes a book of life advice. Some of it is good, some of it is obvious, but it’s a quick easy read. If you’ve seen the…
This is not a sophisticated book. The author rambles. He tells stories. It jumps back and forth between time and scope. Subjects come and go and you never know what he’s going to talk about next. But this is a fun book. Boehner tells a great story. He swears a lot. He’s a good old boy. He’s met a…
This is a book of essays – short chapters that have nothing to do with each other, though they are somehow grouped into sections. I have never read a book of essays. And this is not a book that I would have picked up, but a friend sent it to me. I had sent the friend a different book years ago. He…
I bought this because I’m a Jen Psaki fanboy. I was looking for memoir of her time as Joe Biden’s press secretary, but that’s not quite what I got. This is really a self-help title about communicating. Each chapter covers a different theme of how to communicate between people and audiences. Things…
This book belongs to a collection I am tracking: Easton Press: The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written
I enjoyed this quite a bit, largely because it felt like it was written by Tom Selleck himself. I was nervous when I saw a co-author credit, because I was afraid it was going to be glossy and sanitized, but it’s not. In fact, it’s even a little awkward in places. It genuinely feels like it was…
