Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison

The Basics
Book Info: Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robison.  This is Elder’s first work, written with the encouragement of his brother, Augusten Burroughs.
Genre: Memoir
Overview: As a child, Robison was always the odd kid out, the misfit, branded as a troublemaker.  In reality, his mind just worked differently than [...]

Author Interview with Shauna Niequist – Writer of Cold Tangerines – Win A Copy

A coworker and dear friend passed Cold Tangerines on to me a couple of months ago.  When I finished reading, I realized the book wasn’t just a one-time thing.  I picked up my own copy because I knew I would read it again when I needed some extra inspiration in life.  Sure enough, I have picked [...]

On Writing by Stephen King: An Interview with Alessandra

For this week’s Weekly Geeks challenge, bloggers from all over the book blogging community got together to interview each other about their latest reads.  Alessandra at Out of the Blue interviewed me about On Writing by Stephen King.  
 
Alessandra: Why did you decide to pick up this book?
Rachel:  Honestly, it was a book I’ve known [...]

1 Minute Review of The Turkish Lover by Esmeralda Santiago

I turned on the radio one day and Esmeralda Santiago was on NPR discussing her new memoir The Turkish Lover. She was discussing being in an abusive relationship for 7 years with a man who completely controlled every element of her life- to the point that he even renamed her Chiquita.
She described this in such [...]

Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi

This is the follow-up effort to Satrapi’s previous two graphic novels- Persepolis and Persepolis 2. I originally fell in love with the thoughtful Persepolis series after listening to an interview with Satrapi on NPR. Her coming of age story told in pictures is well done and engaging. It looks at femininity in [...]