My Life as a List: 207 Things about My Bronx Childhood

This is a clever idea for a charming little book. Linda Rosenkrantz gives us a memoir in the form of a list. It goes from birth until puberty. Of course, it's a glossy memoir with no unhappiness allowed to intrude but so what? This is fun.

Even though my upbringing was different from the author's, Linda Rosenkrantz's My Life as a List had deep resonance for me. The surface textures and emotional truths brought back and awakened, so many memories of early childhood. The idea of doing the book in list form is liberating and truly original, and as Joe Torre says on the back cover - It's really funny as well.

Linda Finch has written a lively, endearing, and rejuvenating biography that will take you back to your own roots, Bronxite or not. Her non-chronological life list is both warm and peppery. Vibrant little memory flashes weave an indelible sense of her World War 11 childhood in the Bronx and resonate with our own. My Life As A List is wonderfully laid out with an amazing number of family photographs which somehow, inexplicably, reflect the wry poignancy that pervades this fascinating and unique little book.