![]() ![]() “Life Itself” is made up of short chapters that have the vitality of blog entries without the sloppiness that often goes with them. That transition clearly influences this book. Ebert turned to blogging as a substitute. When health problems and radical facial surgery took away his voice in 2006, Mr. ![]() Ebert can no longer eat or speak, for reasons that the book explains, he has grown better than ever at replaying “the jokes, gossip, laughs, arguments and memories I miss.” The book sparkles with his new, improvisatory, written version of dinner-party conversation. ![]() Ebert’s erstwhile struggle with his Michelin Man body image is one of the topics that “Life Itself” takes on). It will surprise even those already familiar with his huge body of work (no pun intended, although Mr. Ebert’s candid, funny and kaleidoscopic new memoir. ![]() Interest in the site should spike higher on the strength of “Life Itself,” Mr. He has also written one about “the mystery and romance of the rice cooker.” And he presides over what may be the most industrious blog in all of moviedom,, which is packed with news, reviews and so much savvy miscellany that it has attracted a very large following. Roger Ebert has written more than a dozen books about movies. ![]()
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