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It is rare that I read a book about anorexia that doesn't make it seem glamorous. It's not. It's so not. And Crystal Renn does...

I’ve been to Amsterdam and like most tourists, I curiously wandered to the Red Light District. And then quickly wandered back out. I was ...

More and more travel memoirs these days include chapters about food. And more and more books about cooking and food include exotic travel....

  Sara Taylor's book The Lauras hooked me immediately. It begins with teenaged Alex hearing her parents argue -- just like she ...

I rarely write about the dangers and downsides of travel. Probably because I rarely have negative experiences, myself. That doesn’t mean ...

The New York Times: Footsteps As a travel blogger, I completely understand how a place can shape a person's writing. It's wh...

I've been toying with the idea of writing my memoir for a few years now. I've written parts; vignettes of different moments that ...

As a girl, I LOVED watching the Carol Burnett Show . The entire cast felt magical to me and the returning characters Carol and the gang ...

It's been a few years since I read a Terry McMillan book and I'm glad I finally remedied that. I'd forgotten what a master she...

I'm a sucker for memoirs and this one drew me in immediately. I honestly couldn't put it down! The author's story unfolds in...

 The storyline of Lauren Frankel's Hyacinth Girls hit a little too close to home. It is a disjointed story of a young girl being ...

I could not put this book down! I read the entire memoir in one day and felt like I was on a roller coaster ride the whole way through....

I love this little gold journal! I'm on Year 5 of my Q&A Diary and it's been much more insightful than I could have ever imag...

It should come as no surprise that a food blogger like Andie Mitchell has spent her lifetime in a love-hate relationship with food. In man...

I liked The Expats for the same reasons I like the television series The Americans : more than a spy show, it's about marriages based...

I think I'm about to send my cat a Christmas card. Reading Lisa Erspamer's book, A Letter to My Cat, has made me feel like she...

   It starts with this sentence:                                             Now we make you ugly , my mother said. We're immediatel...

Is it a DIY book? A memoir? A choose-your-own adventure fiction full of mystery and magic? Yes. It's all of that and more. A...

It wasn't until I read Anya Von Bremzen's memoir, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking , that I realized I know next to nothing...

When I was a student in zoology, we were tasked with studying an animal at the zoo and writing a paper about our observations. It seemed so...