Read This! Edition
- Read This – Television by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
The LBC has chosen "Television" as its Read This! selection. - Publishers’ Solution to Slow Sales: My Story (And His, Too)
Never fear: the memoir is alive, well, and apparently will be taking up more shelf space than ever before. We were wrong when we said that there are some lives not worthy of paper and ink. - The Silencer
No cell phones in libraries. Please.
Speaking of memoirs, there is a new book out that deals with family secrets, hidden siblings, and recovering pieces of your life.
The article talks about the book, SECRET GIRL, in which author Molly Bruce Jacobs describes how she learned about a sister who was “mildly retarded” and institutionalized from birth. She meets her sister for the first time at age 38, and begins a process of integrating her sister into her own family. There’s an excerpt from the book here:
http://tinyurl.com/pso5q