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The Glass Castle

Posted on February 26, 2015 by mizparker

After years of a nomadic life in the southwest, the family is finally desperate enough to move back in with Rex’s parents in Welch, West Virginia. It is here that the story takes a dark(er) turn, as the children meet their abusive grandparents for the first time and begin to understand why their father left. The story follows Jeanette and her brother and sisters through their tumultuous childhood, culminating in their escape to New York City at the end of their teen years. But are they finally free of their parents?

Autobiography, Memoir, Nonfiction, NYT Bestsellers, unBucket Books

Lucky

Posted on September 26, 2011 by mizparker

Best-known as the author of The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold’s “Lucky” is her memoir of having been raped as a freshman in college, and the effect that it had on her life.

Autobiography, Memoir, Nonfiction, unBucket Books

The Year of Living Biblically

Posted on May 15, 2011 by mizparker

One passage which stuck with me was when he questions why God would need to be praised all of the time – if he is the greatest being in the universe, surely he doesn’t have a self-esteem problem which would require constant reassurance.

Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, NYT Bestsellers, Philosophy, unBucket Books

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Posted on April 1, 2011 by mizparker

Angelou’s writing lends a poetry to her life that makes the terrible things somehow okay, and the good things even better. Caged Bird is stunning portrait of a young black girl’s place in not only the south, but the greater world beyond it, and is a VERY worthwhile read.

1,001 Books to Read Before You Die, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, NYT Bestsellers

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

Posted on March 16, 2011 by mizparker

I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead.

Biography, Comedy, Memoir, Nonfiction, NYT Bestsellers, Short Story, unBucket Books

Heads, We Fly

Posted on September 22, 2010 by mizparker

“We’ve got freedom,” my husband would say, treading on eggshells. “We could take up drinking, or fly to Italy! People with children can’t do that. What’s wrong with another couple of years of freedom?” I’d furiously point out that we never did those things, and he’d drop it; his face falling. Nobody ever says “Heads, we fly to Italy. Tails, we get pregnant!”