Here's the Story

Occasionally, I read a book that I'm not wild about or that I don't quite "get", and then I find myself writing negative reviews and feeling a bit overcritical - like I think I would do SO MUCH BETTER at writing a book. This is compounded when I start worrying about how the author would feel if he o......more

I knew from reviews that this book wouldn't exactly be the fluffy fun of Barry William's Growing Up Brady, but I was surprised by the openness Maureen McCormick laid out here. Very little of the book is directly Brady-related, but it's a interesting look at a former child star struggling with Hollyw......more

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! ;^) No one can accuse McCormick of showing herself in a flattering light in her memoir. Here is someone who had a promising future, found out as a teenager that her mother had syphilis, and seemingly never recovered from the "secret shame" of it. That's what McCormick seems t......more

I deal, on a daily basis, with what might be politely termed "medically-resistant clinical depression." What this means, really, is that no combination of medications has ever really helped -- and the one that came closest had horrific side effects. The reason I provide this prologue is that I derive......more

My husband and I seldom go to Big Lots, but we happened to go to one near Home Depot. We didn't find what we were looking for, but I saw this book for $4 as we were leaving the store and decided to buy it. I thought it would be a fun read, a gossipy book about making The Brady Bunch. There was some o......more