While running at the gym one day, Jessica suffers a burst brain aneurysm and her life takes an extremely unexpected turn. This book chronicles her health ups and downs as she faces multiple surgeries and physical set backs. As she begins to mentally, emotionally and physically recover she uses food as a way to connect …
Alison Bechdel, author of the comic “Dykes to Watch Out For,” strikes a chord with a look back on her family life. This memoir told in graphic novel form is easy to devour in one sitting. The drawings and short dialogue actually slow you down in a good way and help you focus on the …
Jimmy Carter has written yet another wonderful book. Looking back on his life of 90 years, he shares aspects of his boyhood in Georgia, talks of his war years, and comments on highlights both in politics and his long life. Despite his magnanimous achievements and the honorary award of the Noble Peace Prize, Carter is …
While nwbooklovers.org is a website with a regional focus, it has an international reach. Recently, debut author Kathryn Fox from the UK contacted us via our facebook page. I found her self-published memoir, Stolen Memories, through IndieBound and Kobo. We started a discussion about self-publishing internationally, and I thought Kathryn’s experiences as an author from …
“If you just opened to any page in this book and read the first sentence that appealed to you, it would sell itself. In my mind, it leaps off of the bookshelf, into your arms, and being finally introduced, you and it become inseparable. “Jules Renard’s life is a strange and joyful mix of the mundane …
