The Beast in the Garden, by David Baron
The story of the history of Boulder and the struggle between man and wildlife evolved into the eventual slaying of a young man by a mountain lion in 1990, with emphasis on the charged political battle between Boulder County and the State Division of Wildlife. A gripping tale which fueled my fear of mountain lions further. 3.5 stars
A Woman writes a memoir that is truly a celebration of life
Eat. Pray. Love. by Elizabeth Gilbert I feel like saying if you don’t know, I’m not going to tell you. Has anyone not read this!? This woman lives the life we dream of, travelling for a year and getting paid to write about it. I could not put down this story of risk and self-discovery. 5 stars
Summer at Tiffany’s, by Marjorie Hart
A heartwarming tale about Ms. Hart’s experience as a college coed from the midwest spending a summer in the Big Apple as Tiffany’s first ever female page in the 1940’s. A tribute to life, this one made me smile. 4 stars
A Woman’s Memoir that can be summed up as “My life kept getting worse and worse, so then I wrote a book about it !”
The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
The story of the daughter of a raging alcoholic
The Rabbi’s Daughter, by Reva Mann
I couldn’t keep it to Myself: Testimonies from our Imprisoned Sisters, by Wally Lamb