Category Archives: Nonfiction – Sports/Recreation

A Review of Benjamin Lorr’s Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga (by Bethany)

Posted on October 31, 2014 by lfpbe

  I was the kid who watched Annie and wished I was an orphan. Even now, reading a book about Scientology makes me itch to sign a billion-year contract, and a documentary about the FLDS will send me off to … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Benjamin Lorr, Nonfiction - General, Nonfiction - Memoir/Biography, Nonfiction - Sports/Recreation, Reviews by Bethany | 2 Comments

A Review of Abraham Verghese’s The Tennis Partner

Posted on March 2, 2014 by lfpbe

I was taught to distrust memoirs, to think of autobiography as a lesser art than fiction. I don’t remember a moment when I was taught this lesson explicitly; it is just an impression that I picked up along the way … Continue reading →

Posted in Abraham Verghese, Authors, Nonfiction - General, Nonfiction - Memoir/Biography, Nonfiction - Science, Nonfiction - Sports/Recreation, Reviews by Bethany | 2 Comments