Reckless Years : A Diary of Love and Madness (Hardcover)

from Pet12

Based on notebooks she kept between April 2006 and July 2008, Journalist Heather Chaplin chronicles this period of her life in an impressively open and brutal manner. Having felt trapped in a frustrating marriage for over ten years, she finally decides enough is enough and forces a separation fro...

from nancyjean19

This year I got out of a 9-year relationship, and it was strange and also exciting to see my experience captured so precisely in someone else's memoir. There are very specific emotions that happen that Heather described so well, and following her roller coaster of emotions was relatable, too. Tak...

from bucketofrhymes

I'm a sucker for books that are largely built off of journal entries. When I was a kid, I filled up notebook after notebook with these weirdly self-conscious entries that seemed to assume that one day, I would become famous, live through a disaster, or stumble into a situation that would lead to ...