Genre: Memoir

Born a Crime

December 17, 2018 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Born a Crime

Reasons to Listen to Born a Crime This is a novel that is enhanced by its audiobook.  Trevor Noah is an excellent storyteller and made this book highly listenable. His childhood is not all sunshine and roses, however, as should be expected Born a Crime is far from being a downer. I was laughing one […]

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As You Wish

December 12, 2018 Whitney Review 0 Comments
As You Wish

First Sentence Is it fair to call The Princess Bride a classic? The storybook story about pirates and princesses, giants and wizards, Cliffs of Insanity and Rodents of Unusual Size? Review A great book for fans who want a “behind the scenes look” at The Princess Bride.  I listened to the audio version and thought […]

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Audiobook Review: My Story by Elizabeth Smart

January 10, 2018 Whitney Review 1 Comment
Audiobook Review: My Story by Elizabeth Smart

In 2017 I jumped on the Elizabeth Smart bandwagon, I watched the Lifetime Movie and the A&E documentary and of course, I read her memoir. I listened to the audiobook of My Story narrated by the author, Elizabeth Smart. Like Waiting To Be Heard by Amanda Knox, I received a sensationalized story by a privileged […]

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Making Lemonade With Ben by Katherine Perreth

June 21, 2016 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Making Lemonade With Ben by Katherine Perreth

First Impressions I would like to begin my review Making Lemonade with Ben by Katherine Perreth by saying that I am 31 and disabled. I was born with left-sided cerebral palsy with my arm being completely paralyzed. Also, at the age of 16 I had brain surgery, disconnecting the left hemisphere due to life threatening […]

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Book Review: Wisdom Man

November 6, 2014 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Book Review: Wisdom Man

Fond of: I get a little nervous when reviewing biographies/autobiographies as I feel like I am judging their life.  Although something about Banjo Clarke’s story struck me, and sounded like an interesting life was to be told. If I could describe Wisdom Man in one word it would be perseverance. He persevered through racism, death […]

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Review: Waiting to Be Heard

June 19, 2013 Whitney Review 10 Comments
Review: Waiting to Be Heard

First and foremost, I would like to note that I checked out Waiting to Be Heard from the library.  I did not buy or receive a free copy, but I did read the book. Why the disclaimer?  Because anything negative said about Waiting to Be Heard (particularly on Amazon) gets bombarded with accusations and automatically […]

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Review: Angela’s Ashes

June 2, 2011 Whitney Review 6 Comments
Review: Angela’s Ashes

Frank McCourt’s Memoir focuses on his childhood  living in Ireland during the 1930s.  His father drinks away the dole money and has Frank and his brothers swearing to die for Ireland every night, because of this, the McCourts live in poverty living on borrowed time and money and the goodness of the St. Vincent de […]

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Review: The White Masai

May 24, 2011 Whitney Review 3 Comments
Review: The White Masai

While on Safari with her then boyfriend, Corinne Hofmann glimpses a  Samburu Warrior, Lketinga and it is love at first sight.  She drops everything in her home of Switzerland and spends the next several months stocking him around Kenya.  Despite a drastic change in living conditions and neither speaking the same language, using broken English […]

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Review: Devil In The Details

January 1, 2011 Whitney Review 2 Comments
Review: Devil In The Details

Quirky yes, but Devil in the Details was also a little manic (which explains the OCD).  I thought the novel was more like a series of short stories or a vignette of her childhood.  To me it felt all very disjointed, one moment she was three and the next thirteen, I never felt a smooth […]

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