Star of the Show by Dolly Parton with Tom Roland

December 07, 2025

Subtitled “My Life on Stage”, Dolly Parton considers Star of the Show to be part of a trilogy chronicling her life. The first book is Dolly Parton, Songteller: My lLife in Lyrics. The second book is Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones. The third book...

Class Clown by Dave Barry

May 23, 2025

The title of Dave Barry’s latest New York Times bestseller is almost as long as the book itself, Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up. However, the book is more serious than you’d expect from that...

Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

January 19, 2025

It took a couple powerful women in the media to point out to Ina Garten what my mother told me long ago. In her memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens, Garten said she gave a speech in which she said she had always been lucky. Oprah and Lesley Stahl both shot her...

What I Ate In One Year by Stanley Tucci

November 02, 2024

Actor and writer Stanley Tucci talks about What I Ate In One Year (and related thoughts) in his latest book. Here are my related thoughts. I read and enjoyed his earlier book, Taste. However, if you’re a fan of audiobooks, which I am not, I’d suggest you...

I Sleep Around by Sue Ann Jaffarian

June 22, 2024

I’ve followed Sue Ann Jaffarian’s adventures on Facebook for several years now, from about the time she retired and hit the road in her van, Novella. So, of course I was eager to read her nonfiction account, I Sleep Around: The Humorous Memoir of a Nomadic...