The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls

It’s a running joke that there’s never any food in my parents’ house. My mother lacks the foresight necessary for adequate grocery shopping, although even when my mother was at her most Hubbard, I never had to eat exclusively grapes for three weeks or pick through other kids’ discarded lunches in the bathroom garbage so [...]

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One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding, by Rebecca Mead

This summer I was invited to five weddings. I went to three, and of those was in the wedding party for one. Don’t get me wrong, they were lovely, but at 26, it seems I’m in the wedding prime, although I myself find the prospect a little terrifying. And the only thing that terrifies me [...]

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The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch

Let’s start here. I was prepared to like this book. I may lose some literary street cred here, but I LIKED Tuesdays With Morrie. Granted, I was about 18 at the time when I read it, but I cried (on the beach in Mexico no less) like a baby. I like my insight with a [...]

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