Roger Ebert: Life Itself: A Memoir

We met Roger Ebert through his reviews, but we grew to love him as he took up blogging and tweeting in the wake of cancer that left him speechless. Speechless, but with a thousand stories to tell, about playing outside all summer, necking in the back seat as a frat boy at the University of Illinois, meeting his wife Chaz and his time in Alcoholics Anonymous. His memoir Life Itself evokes a nostalgic richness without sparing young Roger of his mistakes along the way. However narrow the path to becoming a national treasure, the view is breathtaking.