In her second memoir, Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson chronicles her journey of trying to live “furiously happy”. Lawson struggles with depression and other mental illnesses, so life is harder for her in a lot of ways. However, her memoir is filled with humor as she writes about Rory the [taxidermied] raccoon, her trip to Australia,…

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid is about a 1970’s rock band that split at the peak of its popularity. The reasons for why were a mystery, until a writer starts writing an oral history of the group and the whole story, the true story, starts to come out. The entire book…

The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free is about the residential hotel for women that was built in 1928 and functioned as a hotel until the 21st century when it was converted into condos. Bren writes about how and why the Barbizon was built, but the overall story is about the history of women working…