The story of Dalai Lama’s escape to freedom to India from Lhasa, Tibet as a teenager. I’ve read the story before, even have maps of the exact route. Stephen brought me back to when I was in Tibet… the Monasteries I visited really hit home. Imagine being ascended to the...

A great book that gives an insightful look of what working in the White House is really like, traveling with a President (Obama), and the day-to-day. She admits, and rightfully so, that her job was truly special, a one of the kind that she actually got through a job po...

Jill’s story of how during the ugly recession, no job and bills to pay, drove her and her master’s degree to seek and acquire a job as a prison librarian. It’s not a maximum security prison, though minimum-security prison is nothing to sneeze at either. As green as you...

 A terrific insight into the life of Prince. I had the fortunate luck of being the first person to check out the book from my local library (love that new book smell on glossy pages). It opens with the last few months of Prince’s life with co-writer Dan Piepenbring… wh...

A biography on Joni Mitchell, one of the finest singer/songwriters of a generation in my humble opinion.  Yaffe conducted dozens of interviews those who know her and interviewed her as well 2007-2015.  He dissects each of her notable and not so notable songs, telling t...

These were a mix of short-stories he’s recently written along with some classics. This is my first time reading Wolfe and wasn’t too impressed. At the time of this book release he was a professor at Stanford, had won all these awards and was praised for his literary wo...

This is Howard’s third book, and by far his best. My, how times have changed. It’s based on his interviews with musicians, celebrities, and personalities. His interview style has grown leaps and bounds. I remember listening to him growing up, and it was all fart jokes...

This book dives deeper into the relationship between Carine and Chris and their parents. It’s an appropriate epilogue to the wildly successful book (and one of my favorites) Into The Wild. Carine shares letters Chris wrote to her, the general insanity of being in a hom...

“Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of a life.”   There’s a lot I miss about the nineties. It was an open, free time of possibilities, changes we thought were permanent. There is nowhere else I could imagine wanting to be besi...

Pleasantly surprised with this one. Robbie is one of the better musician writers out there. He was smart with this autobiography-- he wrote about his life up to the last performance of his band, ‘The Band’ and the seminal doc “The Last Waltz.” Great stories of him with...