Memoirs

Unless you live under a big, fat rock, you must have noticed the slew of memoirs flooding the bookstores lately. From Britney Spears to Stephen King, it seems anybody who's anybody (or, for that matter, anybody who's nobody) is jumping on the memoir bandwagon.

On the one hand, this is a good thing --- indeed, the memoir writing craze has produced many intelligent, creative, insightful and helpful books (see our list below). But on the other, there are a lot of people who, for some completely inexplicable reason, feel that their lives are so darn fascinating that an entire book should be devoted to discussing it. What's worse, more often that not these people cannot write to save their lives. What, for instance, possessed Regis Philbin to write (not to mention give it that title), WHO WANTS TO BE ME? Not only do I not want to be him, I don't want to read his psuedo-philosophical reflections on his life as a talkshow/gameshow host (unless, of course, he's divulging dirty little secrets about Kathie Lee).

So, now you're asking the monitor, "How do I know which memoirs are worth reading and which I should remain five-feet away from at all times?" Well, it just so happens that the Teenreads.com staff read a whole bunch of memoirs and picked the four we thought you guys would most enjoy. Oh, and we also wrote reviews of each for your reading pleasure. No thanks necessary...our only wish in life is to serve you.

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