Posts Tagged Memoir

Confections of a Closet Master Baker: One Woman’s Sweet Journey

A former Hollywood insider trades the Hollywood Hills for Green Acres—and lives to tell in this area it in this hilarious, poignant treat of a memoir. As head of her celebrity sister’s production company, Gesine Bullock-Prado had a closet full of designer clothes and the ear of all the influential studio heads, but she was miserable. The only solace she found was in her secret leisure activity: baking. With every sugary, sweet confection to emerge from her oven, Gesine took one step away from her glittery, empty existence—and one step closer to her right destiny. Before long, she and her spouse

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My Life from Scratch: A Sweet Journey of Starting Over, One

A former Hollywood insider trades the Hollywood Hills for Green Acres—and lives to tell in this area it in this hilarious, poignant treat of a memoir. As head of her celebrity sister’s production company, Gesine Bullock-Prado had a closet full of designer clothes and the ear of all the influential studio heads, but she was miserable. The only solace she found was in her secret leisure activity: baking. With every sugary, sweet confection to emerge from her oven, Gesine took one step away from her glittery, empty existence—and one step closer to her right destiny. Before long, she and her spouse

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Tender Bar, The

“Long before it with permission served me, the bar saved me,” asserts J.R. Moehringer, and his compelling memoir The Tender Bar is the tale of how and why. A Pulitzer-Prize attractive writer for the Los Angeles Times, Moehringer grew up fatherless in pub-heavy Manhasset, New York, in a broken down house crammed with cousins and ruled by an eccentric, unkind grandfather.Desperate for a affectionate figure, he turns first to his father, a DJ whom he can only access via the radio (Moehringer calls him The Voice and pictures him as “talking smoke”). When The Voice suddenly disappears from the airwaves,

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