Finished reading Henri Cole's "Orphic Paris."
https://amzn.to/43i0s3V
Super good. Really made me feel like I was back in Paris, especially when I was reading it at a café, waiting for my lunch, and sipping an iced latte.
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in 'maybe you should talk to someone', lori gottlieb recounts the period in her life when she went from feeling lost and seeking help in #therapy to feeling found.
the twist: gottlieb is a therapist herself.
this #memoir is smart and funny, honest and touching. it gives me the feels, and it’s narrated by a badass female voice.
full review: https://idealistatheart.com/maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone/
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I've published my review of When The Bell Rings - Robert Gass' compelling memoir of his 27 years with the FDNY. From rookie to Battalion Chief, his stories capture the burning Bronx of the 70s and the emotional weight carried by those who face danger daily. A 5-star read that goes beyond heroics to reveal the human cost of rescue work.
#Memoir #Firefighters #NYCHistory #BookReview #FDNY
https://medium.com/@AngieMangino/when-the-bell-rings-fe5824fda80b
Medium · When The Bell Rings - Angie Mangino - Medium
Started the week with this excellent #memoir - I think it's a contemporary classic at this point. This is about ethnic identity, what it means to be Native, about patriarchal violence, growing up female, what it means to have a mental illness.
www.instagram.com/p/DIdz_MyKOos/
This book is ideal for readers interested in memoirs that explore the impact of narcissistic abuse, intergenerational trauma, and the journey of overcoming addiction and mental health struggles. (StoryGraph Summary)
Being Broken: Tales and Essays of Survival and Death from Narcissistic Parental Abuse by Geoffrey R. Jonas ~ $10 Gift Card
#Spotlight #Memoir @GoddessFish @livingwithcptsd.bsky.social
https://ginaraemitchell.com/being-broken
https://ginaraemitchell.com/being-broken/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social
Gina Rae MitchellBeing Broken: Tales And Essays Of Survival And Death From Narcissistic Parental Abuse By Geoffrey R. Jonas ~ $10 Gift Card💙📚#Spotlight #Memoir @GoddessFish @livingwithcptsd.bsky.social | Gina Rae MitchellThis book is ideal for readers interested in memoirs that explore the impact of narcissistic abuse, intergenerational trauma, and the journey of overcoming addiction and mental health struggles. (StoryGraph Summary) Being Broken: Tales and Essays of Survival and Death from Narcissistic Parental Abuse by Geoffrey R. Jonas ~ $10 Gift Card💙📚#Spotlight #Memoir @GoddessFish @livingwithcptsd.bsky.social
This week I am reading #NotDeadYetTheMemoir by Phil Collins. He wrote: "I was blindsided when, within two years of each other, Keith Moon and John Bonham died, both aged thirty-two. I worshipped them. I thought at the time, 'These guys are supposed to be around forever. They’re indestructible. They’re drummers.' — My name is Phil Collins and I’m a drummer, and I know I’m not indestructible. This is my story." #music #memoir #book
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do — well, that’s Memoirs.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Essay (1932-03-12), “Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat to Senator Borah,” Saturday Evening Post
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/rogers-will/76180/
WIST Quotations · Essay (1932-03-12), "Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat to Senator Borah," Saturday Evening Post - Rogers, Will | WIST QuotationsWhen you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- well, that's Memoirs. William Borah (1885-1940) was a progressive Republican, but isolationist, US Senator from Idaho (1907-1940). Collected in Donald Day (ed.), The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949),…
Finished Richard Chamberlain's Shattered Love (2003). It was enjoyable. Very easy to read. Short chapters. He didn't include a lot of gossip, but lots of reflection. He was much more spiritual than I'd anticipated.
He was 69 when he wrote this book, with 20 more years ahead of him.
Stop Protecting Your Protagonist!
And if you're writing memoir, YOU are the protagonist Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
https://writingcooperative.com/stop-protecting-your-protagonist-b927a80bd2f
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An article in Wired on Hertz's 1888 spark-gap experiment reminded me of an incident from my childhood. I was about 12. I wanted to build a Jacob's Ladder similar to the ones you see in old science fiction movies, like Dr. Zarkov's lab in the Flash Gordon serials, so my grandpa, with whom I was living at the time, obtained a (still easily available) Model T Ford coil for me. Powered by a transformer from my Lionel train set, it produced an impressive continuous arc.
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay (EPUB)
Author: Goodreads Best Books of the Month 2017
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/hunger-a-memoir-of-my-body-1f64c62b02/
#Memoir, #GoodreadsBestBooksoftheMonth2017|RoxaneGay
Have any #baseball fans out there read Bill "Spaceman" Lee's memoir The Wrong Stuff? I'm only a chapter in, but my oh my its quotability is off the charts. (I doubt most of the stories ever happened. But that's not the point!)
As someone who mostly posts quotations or #RedSox related things, this book means my account could get a lot busier this weekend. You've been warned...
How to Write Your Memoir as a Thriller and Your Thriller as a Memoir
Author Art Bell shares a quick exchange with Walter Mosley and how he went about writing his memoir as a thriller and vice versa.
https://www.writersdigest.com/how-to-write-your-memoir-as-a-thriller-and-your-thriller-as-a-memoir
#Genre #Memoir #MysteryThriller #PersonalWriting #WriteBetterFiction
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Writer's Digest · How to Write Your Memoir as a Thriller and Your Thriller as a MemoirAuthor Art Bell shares a quick exchange with Walter Mosley and how he went about writing his memoir as a thriller and vice versa.
Hello readers and writers!
I hope that this helps you. My comments are on, and I’d love any feedback you have to offer.
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https://www.purposefulprose.org/post/writing-your-memoir-finding-the-theme
Purposeful Prose · Writing Your Memoir: Finding the ThemeIf you have written your memoir, are writing your memoir, or are contemplating the idea of writing your memoir, congratulations. Telling your story is a vulnerable undertaking, especially if this is your first foray into writing a book.The crux of a good memoir is in its storytelling. You, as the author, are responsible for fleshing out the people and events in your life as characters, reflections, and perceptions. Even before building up all of that, what is your foundation?Your readers are sel
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman Alexie (EPUB)
Author: Goodreads Best Books of the Month 2017
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/you-dont-have-to-say-you-love-me-a-memoir-44dc7b2eb9/
#Memoir, #GoodreadsBestBooksoftheMonth2017|ShermanAlexie
ELEGANT, ELEGAIC, VIVID and thoughtful book intertwines the author’s mourning for her complicated, beloved family with hard truths about the ecological crises facing our earth and its oceans. Beautiful, sobering writing, grounded in love. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-mourners-bestiary-eiren-caffall/1144991418?ean=9781955905589
Barnes & NobleThe Mourner's Bestiary|HardcoverA critically-acclaimed literary memoir braiding together environmental research and the personal journey of generational healing, grief, and chronic illness. "Caffall brilliantly parallels her family’s suffering with large-scale ecological upheaval, maintaining a...
"The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom" by Shari Franke
The first children that grew up in influencer / social media / vlogging families are starting to grow up, and their stories about what that's like aren't pleasant. Besides the fact that it's highly questionable to destroy your child's privacy before they're of the age consent, and that it's unethical to make your financial stability reliant on said destruction and your child's labor, it turns out that frequently domestic abuse is involved behind the scenes to keep it all going.
Shari Franke's book is an important step in regulating or prohibiting exploiting young children online altogether some day. She seems to have written it as soon as she was physically and mentally able to do so. I'm happy she did, the book is very popular and hopefully will change people's mind on what kind of online content they're willing to support and consume.
The book is well-written and the author has obviously made major steps in healing after her mother went to prison, for which I'm glad. But I also feel, reading this, that she's still so young and has a long journey ahead of her. I don't mean this in a negative or looking-down-on kind of way at all, but in a concerned, compassionate way.
She is part of the LDS church and from her book it's obvious that the church played a significant role in her family's abuse, but I don't think she's there yet to see it. There's also a time in her life where she gets manipulated and (in my eyes) sexually abused by a married man with a high rank in the church. Of course she gets punished, but he doesn't. She changes wards and doesn't blame the LDS. She appears to be a strong believer, but it pains me to see her caught up in a church that is discriminative, hierarchical and predatory.
I hope she won't get hurt again, and that, as she gets older, she'll regain more freedom -from her father (who was very much complicit), and from the church or other cults or organized religions too. Despite how hard and painful it is, she's good at eventually seeing through lies and refusing denial. Maybe in a decade we'll get another memoir by her.
"Whenever the #author and #playwright Samantha Ellis tries to define her heritage to people, she often finds them correcting her. “So many times I’ve said I’m an #Iraqi #Jew and been… told ‘you mean you’re mixed’ or ‘which parent is which?’ or just ‘how weird’,” she writes in her richly detailed #memoir, in which she explores the complex, centuries-old history of the Iraqi-#Jewish community and its vanishing language, #Judeo-Iraqi #Arabic.
The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish #refugees who came separately to #London with their families during periods of persecution for the community in #Baghdad, Ellis is moved to seek out #stories, expressions and objects that will fill some of the gaps in that #history when she realises that she lacks the vocabulary to pass on the language of her childhood to her own young son."
The Guardian · Chopping Onions on my Heart by Samantha Ellis review – an Iraqi Jew’s celebration of an endangered culture
A view and a thank you!
While I'm not ready to be in front of the camera, here's a sincere thank you from behind it. If you like Scottish landscapes, Scottish accents, and gratitude, you'll enjoy this.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DII51K9CMcs/?igsh=MXhudTFvdmo4ZGF5Nw==
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