Mailman by Stephen Starring Grant

March 31, 2026

I will never look at my mail carrier in the same way after reading Stephen Starring Grant’s Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home. If you’re like me, you think of them delivering the mail, letters, magazines and...

Bookworm by Lucy Mangan

March 16, 2026

I am the wrong nationality to appreciate Lucy Mangan’s Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading. She’s younger than I am, but her childhood reading in the ’80s is certainly different than mine in the ’60s. I preferred her Bookish, her memoir of...

Bookish by Lucy Mangan

March 08, 2026

I have Rosemary Kaye to thank for introducing me to British author Lucy Mangan. Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives is really about Mangan and how reading shaped her life. Books saw her through her college years, her jobs afterward, introduced her to her husband,...

Future Boy by Michael J. FoX

February 11, 2026

I probably wouldn’t have picked up Future Boy by Michael J. Fox with Nelle Fortenberry if Linda and I hadn’t seen Back to the Future: The Musical a few months ago. The book is subtitled Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum....

Theater Kid by Jeffrey Seller

February 09, 2026

Subtitled A Broadway Memoir, Jeffrey Seller’s Theater Kid recounts his life in a poor neighborhood in the Detroit suburbs, his discovery of theater when he was in fourth grade, and his dream of escape. However, Seller’s dreams were to produce plays on...