I wish I had known Fisher was an author before her death last month; it was especially painful to read this book and all its many, stabbing references to her own death so soon after its happening. This book is sharp and witty and wry and self-aware, it is sad but above all it is funny. Fisher never pulls her own punches, even when aimed at herself, and this honest book lets the reader share in all of her highs and lows.

I've never seen Girls Next Door, but I do love the House Bunny, so I listened to this after seeing it on a top audiobook biography list. Holly Madison is a self-aware and intelligent woman who narrates her time at the Playboy mansion with equal parts honesty, perceptiveness, and distaste. It's an interesting tale, and one I'm glad I listened to as it is a unique coming-of-age story. It was too long and was wrapped up too perfectly, but I would recommend it to fans of Holly Madison and crazy glamour.

Hadfield provides the space age version of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. This book is a wonderful conglomeration of science, biography, humor, fact, wonder, and joy. Hadfield brings his stereotypical Canadian joy and humble delight to a tale of a young boy awed by the first steps of man on the moon to his eventual journey to the ISS. A fun book that I highly recommend to everyone.

Strayed named herself after her divorce after the definition of "strayed," and the choice is apt as she walks the Pacific Crest Trail from California to Oregon and shares with the reader her physically brutal experiences on the trail itself and the emotionally brutal experiences that led to her walking it. Her words are vulnerable and honest; she is an amazing storyteller and she has an absolutely heart wrecking story to tell. Her own distance from the story (it took place in 1995) lent gravity and hindsight to the story which kept it from being a grieving diary entry and turned it into a book that shows that even the most disastrous, foolish, and ill-prepared among us can pick ourselves up and find a way back onto the trail.

Kaling is a great narrator of the audiobook version; her comedic timing is impeccable and her impressions are amusing. I liked hearing snippets about her life and adventures; it felt like reading the blog posts of a friend and less like hearing about a celebrity. I think what fell flat for me was that Kaling spent so much time being self-deprecating that I, who've admittedly never watched the Office, began to wonder why she was so famous in the first place. Her stories were definitely amusing, but I didn't feel they were interesting enough to warrant a book.

This book feels like having coffee with your best friend after you haven't seen each other for months and you're trying to catch up on everything at once. Greer has a way of opening up and making you feel like you've known her forever, which is also definitely part of her acting charm and why I picked up this book. Unfortunately it's also kind of boring. Her life, while humorously told, hasn't been that exciting. I'd recommend it to fans of Greer (definitely pick up the audio version).