Cheryl's Book Nook

With so many various memoirs currently in the book market, it can be hard to choice which ones to read. Admit it, unless the book focuses on someone you are familiar with or are a fan of memoirs than you could care less about a person’s life story. I am in the latter. As a book reviewer, I have had the pleasure of being exposed to several memoirs. The latest is Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life by Michael Greenberg. Mr. Greenberg is the author of the previous novel Hurry Down Sunshine as well as being a columnist for the Times Literary Supplement. While reading Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life, I found Mr. Greenberg to be human. Ok, so what I mean by this comment is that Mr. Greenberg didn’t hold anything back in this book. He let the readers’ get an inside look into his life…growing up Jewish, his fears of becoming a father and eventually obtaining his dreams of being a writer. Mr. Greenberg’s father was a scrap dealer and he expected all his sons to go into the same busi...