The Black Sheep Dances

This memoir took me awhile to get interested in. Reviewing a memoir is always tough, as you really don't want to appear to say, ...

This is the year of the memoir. Really.  I've never noticed so many.  A few I started to get bored with, as they seemed like a lot o...

"Nor is she sentimental. Inside a silver locket she has worn for years, a gift from my father, are the stock photographs of the st...

originally published in "The Quivering Pen" 11/7/2012 with link http://davidabramsbooks.blogspot.com/2012/11/our-discarded-kodak-...

“ The ideal reflecting pool is smaller, rather than larger…deep enough to suggest mystery and to sustain schools of minnows or other small f...

An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom Sticking with the apparent theme of Stalinist Russia and its aftermath, I foun...

If you are going to make a journey, you know it’s not going to be dull if your companion has a reputation for getting into fights. It could ...

Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2010, Nonfiction Of Fathers, Friendship & Fishing Luke Jennings memoir starts out as peacef...

Thanks to Hyperion for sending an additional copy of the new memoir by Liz Murray, Breaking Night .  She's an inspiring young woman who ...

Jay's father, Denton, was the chief of a volunteer fire department in a small town.  His career started early, and he rose to be one of ...

Disaster and loss happens to everyone at some point in their life.  But in the case of Kim Dana Kupperman, it seems like she's had sever...

"...the snail had emerged from its shell into the alien territory of my room, with no clue as to where it was or how it had arrived;  t...