From the front flap: "Each year, hundreds of stagestruck kids arrive in New York determined to crash the theatre... One in a thousand turns out to be Noel Coward. This book is about life among the other 999. By one of them." - Helene Hanff In her spirited, witty and vastly entertaining memoir, Helene Hanff recalls her ingenuous attempts to crash Broadway in the early forties … [Read more...] about Underfoot in Show Business by Helene Hanff: A
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The Happiest Days of Our Lives by Wil Wheaton: B+
From the back cover: Readers of Wil Wheaton's website know that he is a masterful teller of elegant stories about his life. Building on the critical success of Dancing Barefoot and Just a Geek, he has collected more of his own favorite stories in his third book, The Happiest Days of Our Lives. These are the stories Wil loves to tell, because they are the closest to his heart: … [Read more...] about The Happiest Days of Our Lives by Wil Wheaton: B+
Sayonara, Mr. Fatty!: A Geek’s Diet Memoir by Toshio Okada: B
When Toshio Okada, co-founder of Gainax (Neon Genesis Evangelion, among others) and Japanese pop culture expert, began to wonder exactly why he was so overweight, he decided to analyze his eating patterns in the hopes of discovering an explanation. What he found was that the simple act of recording what he ate helped him to lose weight. This revelation led to the development of … [Read more...] about Sayonara, Mr. Fatty!: A Geek’s Diet Memoir by Toshio Okada: B
Sixpence House by Paul Collins: B+
From the book jacket: Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside—to move, in fact, to the little cobblestone village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books," boasting 1,500 inhabitants... and forty bookstores. Antiquarian bookstores, no less. Inviting readers into a sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding us through the … [Read more...] about Sixpence House by Paul Collins: B+
Between Good and Evil by Roger L. Depue and Susan Schindehette: B
From the back cover: No one gets closer to evil than a criminal profiler, trained to penetrate the hearts and minds of society's most vicious psychopaths. And no one is a more towering figure in the world of criminal profilers than Roger L. Depue. Chief of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit at a time when its innovative work first came to prominence, he headed a renowned team of … [Read more...] about Between Good and Evil by Roger L. Depue and Susan Schindehette: B