Doris Kearns Goodwin - Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir

Pros: wonderfully written, fabulous book

Cons: it ends

Review: Last fall, I would read "Wait Till Next Year" every morning while eating breakfast. I didn't want to put it down. As a result, I had to rush to catch the bus. When the book ended (entirely too soon!) I felt a void in my life.

Doris...

Pros: Engaging writing style

Cons: Honestly - NONE!

Review: Being the first review I've written for Epinions, I thought "What was the BEST book I read in 1999?" One second later, the answer: Wait Till Next Year.

This book is Doris Kearns Goodwins' memoir of growing up Catholic, In...

Pros: Great descriptions of growing up in the fifties

Cons: None

Review: Doris Kearns Goodwin first got my attention on the Ken Burns series on baseball. You could tell she truly loved baseball and the story she told in the series and in this book about keeping boxscores of the Dodgers games so she could go over them with...

Pros: Nicely written story about some interesting times.

Cons: Not for the action crowd.

Review: There are few better interview subjects out there than Doris Kearns Goodwin, who has written books on Lyndon Johnson, the Kennedys and the Roosevelts. Whenever I've seen her interviewed about her books, she always has an interesting take on the question...