Title: Love, Zac: Small-Town Football and the Life and Death of an American Boy Author: Reid Forgrave Genre: Nonfiction, MemoirPublished On: September 8, 2020Publisher: Algonquin BooksSource: physicalPages: 288 CW: Suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, animal death Synopsis: “A monumental achievement of deep reporting and expert storytelling.” —Michael Sokolove, author of The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino “I …
Title: A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son Author: Michael Ian Black Genre: Nonfiction, MemoirPublished On: September 15, 2020Publisher: Algonquin BooksSource: physical, digitalPages: 304 Synopsis: “Raw, intimate, and true . . . A Better Man cracked me wide open, and it’s a template for the conversation we need to be having with our boys.”—Peggy Orenstein, …
Title: Good Boy: My Life in Seven DogsAuthor: Jennifer Finney BoylanGenre: Non-fiction, MemoirPublished On: April 21, 2020Publisher: Celadon BooksSource: Physical CopyPages: 272 Synopsis: From bestselling author of She’s Not There, New York Times opinion columnist, and human rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, a memoir of the transformative power of loving …
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is a genre freebie! I decided to focus on isolation-themed books broken down by their genre. Hello Readers! I hope …
Title: The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11Author: Garrett M. GraffGenre: NonfictionPublished On: September 10, 2019Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon SchusterPages: 512 Synopsis: Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11, from Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, which traced the rise of al-Qaeda, to The 9/11 Commission Report, …
