The Last Lecture
Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.
2,579-word summary · 11 min read
family + nonfiction
4 books tagged both “family” and “nonfiction”.
A Child Called It
Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in.
2,326-word summary · 10 min read
Educated
Educated retold: Idaho scrapyard, no school, BYU, Cambridge, break with father and brother.
1,931-word summary · 9 min read
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls's memoir of a childhood spent hungry and moving, from a stove fire at three to a Bronx apartment and parents on the street.
2,255-word summary · 10 min read