Apparently There Were Complaints by Sharon Gless

February 16, 2022

I seldom read celebrity memoirs, so maybe most of them are as brutally honest as Sharon Gless’ Apparently There Were Complaints. She doesn’t hesitate to share her faults, and she had plenty. She has an addictive personality, and it came out in many ways in...

Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

October 19, 2021

Last Thursday, when Katherine mentioned she had listened to Stanley Tucci read Taste on the audiobook, I didn’t realize what a miracle it is that he was able to read it. He had surgery to remove an enormous cancerous tumor from the base of his tongue, and he...

A is for Audra by John Robert Allman

December 06, 2019

As a Broadway fan, even before I actually saw the book, I wanted a copy of John Robert Allman’s A is for Audra. He wrote the book, but this picture book wouldn’t be anywhere near as wonderful without Peter Emmerich’s illustrations of Broadway’s...