Memoir Book Reviews

Musings and delightful vignettes, served with a healthy dose of humor, form the basis for The Cat That Ate a Thousand Bananas: Musings of a Nerd by Hank Mancini.

Without a doubt, Mancini’s title immediately draws in the reader, though the book has nothing to do with a cat that has a penchant for eating lots of bananas, which speaks to the book’s looseness and fun sense of whimsy. Part memoir and part musings, Mancini admits that the stories he tells are about events in his life that he hopes his family will find funny – though that is not […]

Author and artist Leonard M. Cachola has composed an emotive exploration of life’s vicissitudes in his engrossing memoir, The Truth Within.

Son of a hotheaded, alcoholic, and often abusive father and a calm and mostly forgiving mother, Cachola found solace in the fantasy worlds of arcade gaming and comic books. He created pictures at an early age, ran a cartoon strip for his college newspaper, and eventually launched a laudable career in graphic arts. As he sought balance in his life, he pursued diverse hobbies that included autocross racing, dancing, and photography.

His girlfriends ranged from the rather raunchy […]