So far, this is a really good book! This is one of those that I picked up off my bookshelf and thought, why not? It's like her memoirs, and a lot of stories and the truth about waitressing and whatnot. Each chapter seems to be like a different time in her life, and just general knowledge thrown i...
There will be spoilers in this commentary, but that's okay, because you won't want to read it after this anyway.Yes, I actually took notes on this book whilst reading it. My not-long-awaited commentary is as follows:pg 11: Oh, now I know the narrator's name. Took her long enough. Angel. Okay. Wha...
On the heels of her poignant and critically acclaimed memoirs, Waiting and Raising Blaze, Debra Ginsberg explores the unique connection she shares with her three sisters. In About My Sisters, Ginsberg examines the special bond she shares with her three sisters, May, Lavander and Deja. As her hip...
Basic Summary: Debra Ginsberg wrote a memoir about her years in the food industry (Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress). Waiting was full of spelling and grammar error; which I found funny since she stresses how she ended up working with a book packaging company and reading manuscripts/et...
There had been a few bumps in the road, but, on the whole, it had been a very successful time. I wasn’t sure how much of this success had to do with Grace (who began coming over to our house for tea and tutoring in the spring), Blaze’s peers, or the fact that I had come to school with him every d...
It was very stale, but that didn’t matter at all. She blew out a cloud, watched the breeze waft it over her star jasmine, and inhaled another. No coughing, no awkwardness holding it between her fingers. Smoking, like so many other relinquished bad habits, was like riding a bicycle. It didn’t matt...