Book: 13
Title: Dry
Author: Augusten Burroughs
Genre: Memoir
Summary: Augusten Burroughs' memoir of recovery from alcoholism.
Why did you get this book? I have a long-running interest in addiction-recovery memoirs, and Running with Scissors proved to me that Burroughs has got serious writing chops, so.
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Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
Book: 3
Title: Running with Scissors
Author: Augusten Burroughs
Genre: Memoir
One-sentence summary: Augusten Burroughs had one hell of a fucked-up childhood.
Why did you get this book? I had a copy of it lying around the house that someone had given me, and when I read an absolutely amazing interview with ( Read more... )

Book: 33
Title: Cheaper By the Dozen
Author: Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Genre: Memoir
One-sentence summary: The Gilbreth family has twelve children, a father who is an expert in motion study and time conservation and who rules the family as any good patriarch ought, and a sweet mother who defers to the father in all things and ( Read more... )

Book: 23
Title: The Camera My Mother Gave Me
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Genre: Memoir
One-sentence summary: Susanna Kaysen has a problem with her vagina, and with her asshole sex-obsessed boyfriend.
Why did you get this book? I've read Kaysen before and I love her writing. And this turned up on PaperbackSwap.
Do you like the cover? It's just the ( Read more... )

Book: 10
Title: Wake Up, I'm Fat!
Author: Camryn Manheim
Genre: Memoir
One-sentence summary: Society ain't easy on fat girls, but getting to like yourself is worth it.
Why did you get this book? Because I like Camryn Manheim, and I am also fat.
Do you like the cover? Any cover with a picture of Camryn Manheim in a bathing suit on it is okay by me ( Read more... )