Here are my 5 favorite “airplane memoirs.” You can start and finish each one on a cross-country flight!
1. First Comes Love by Marion Winik
No one could make you laugh and cry harder than Winik, who tells the story of her love affair, marriage, motherhood, and agony with Tony, a gay figure skater.
2. Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott
Who better to put you on the right spiritual path than a pregnant alcoholic with no support system?
3. Dry by Augusten Burroughs
People talk about Burroughs’ first memoir, Running with Scissors,
4. Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison
This book got a lot of attention because it was written by Augusten Burroughs’ Aspergian brother, but what makes it such a great read is that it’s funny and touching.
5. Hats & Eyeglasses by Martha Frankel
Okay, okay, it might be cheating to include my own book, but it’s been called funny, exhuberent, fast paced and hysterical. Need more?
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I agree you shouldn't "keep reading" but I don't believe in moving on to the next chapter if I speed-read the last one without comprehending it. Then I agree, move on, the better for having analyzed. Sometimes we stick with the old chapters because t
Back when I was afraid of flying, I read Mary Renault’s novels of ancient Greece, so I could forget flying was ever invented. Now I’m just annoyed with flying.