I don’t really do memoirs so much but had heard so many good things about this book that I was convinced to try it. All the good reviews are right, and this book is great. I hadn’t heard of Trevor Noah before he took over The Daily Show, and while I still miss Jon Stewart (I mean, who doesn’t?) Noah has grown on me. After this book, I like him even more. This is not a comedian’s memoir; rather, it’s a growing-up memoir, stories about […]
This is Criminally Good
Audible and Goodreads gave away free copies of Born a Crime a few weeks ago and I jumped at the chance to download a book that was already on my TBR list. This is one of the best celebrity memoirs I’ve ever read because it is not really a celebrity memoir; besides a few throwaway lines about his introduction into touring comedy Noah doesn’t talk about his career. This is a story about growing up as a mixed child with his black Xhosa mother in South Africa […]