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Rory Docherty has returned to rural North Carolina with a wooden leg and haunting memories of his time

ICYMI: Forty Autumns offers fascinating, wonderfully detailed perspectives in a rich, layered family memoir Forty Autumns is A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall, and her memoir Forty Autumns offers fascinating, wonderfully detailed perspectives in this rich, layered family memoir

Casey Wilson, actress (Happy Endings), comedian (Saturday Night Live), and writer, shares essays and memories My initial cluelessness is no reflection on Wilson's book, and I'm generally game to read memoirs by If you like memoirs, you might try the books on some of these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs About Facing Mortality

She struggles to reconcile her past and her memories with the present, the shallow facades with the gritty

multiple characters to tell a story of caution, folly, and redemption: a Prairie Witch who holds others' memories

Brown shares moments of reckoning, everyday evidence of yawning racial divides, and her insistent joy in embracing her black identity and self-worth. Austin Channing Brown's book is slim (185 pages), but I wore out my highlighter as I marked lines and passages to discuss with the group I read it with. In I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Brown details growing up female, Christian, and black within mainly white educational, religious, and societal frameworks--with a name her parents gave her to intentionally create assumptions that it was the name of a white man. She shows the reader what it's like to navigate organizations that purport to value racial diversity and inclusion, then unapologetically points out where good intentions often go awry, identifying pitfalls (and also some promise) gleaned through everyday life and also in her work as an expert in helping organizations attain increased diversity. She shares shocking, frustrating, heartbreaking moments of reckoning, evidence of yawning racial divides, and her insistent joy in embracing her black identity and her self-worth. Through asking for deeper thought, engagement, and action from all of us, Brown pushes the reader to listen with care and then to do thoughtful, better, specific work toward achieving racial diversity and shifting racial value systems. Any Bossy thoughts on this book? I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/20. You might want to check out So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo or Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey if you haven't yet read them.

She's built years of happy memories in their low-key beach house rental.

Repeating history that had left living memory was an all-too-human tendency...

unbroken bond; and I'm listening to The Best of Me, David Sedaris's most recent collection of oddball memories Whether Sedaris is reliving specific, frequently oddball memories and mining them for poignancy and also

and one memoir will be published next week. Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality 02 The Frederick Sisters Are Stay True in order to cope with his loss, explore the concept of belonging, face his own grief, and memorialize

on a desperate search for a missing child in Victorian London--and must also confront her own dark memories a desperate search through London and the countryside beyond, as well as through Bridie’s own messy memories her parents' accounts hold merit, and begins to wonder with horror whether she can trust even her own memories

The vivid midcentury memories are a highlight. behaviors are brought to light and shake the foundations of the families and of their treasured collective memories

travel, and she shares how she sometimes struggled to fit into either of these settings. 02 Blood: A Memoir I didn't know about Allison Moorer before her memoir began getting good reviews. Blood: A Memoir is said to read like a personal journal. Have you read some captivating memoirs lately? If you like memoirs, you might also like to take a look at the Greedy Reading List Six Illuminating Memoirs

Miller is a beautiful, powerful writer with clear and sophisticated arguments and a compelling identity separate from the attack that led to her being in the spotlight. Miller is a beautiful, powerful writer with clear and sophisticated arguments and a compelling identity separate from the pivotal attack that led to her being in the spotlight. She also has a strong, passionate grasp of widely experienced inequalities—and ideas of how to chip away at some of the injustices and societal norms that should be excised from existence. I began reading this because I thought I should, not because I wanted to. Miller surprised me with the delicately balanced tone she was able to strike, of passionate belief in right and wrong, emotional reactions to her situation, and measured arguments and calm determination. I was fascinated by her. Any Bossy thoughts about this book? Miller really took me by surprise with how thoughtfully and powerfully she handled this difficult and emotional topic. Now I'd like Miller to please write more books about varied topics, because I like spending time in her head.

on a desperate search for a missing child in Victorian London--and must also confront her own dark memories a desperate search through London and the countryside beyond, as well as through Bridie’s own messy memories

hallucinations and mental illness...until she realizes that the red door and visions of the past are real memories

It asks us to consider who sets and shapes our shared national memory and what and who gets left out.

That said, I have a tough time reading memoirs in which someone is fighting cancer, and I understand #memoir, #nonfiction, #heartwarming, #fourstarbookreview

caring for his young niece and nephew after their mother's death; Reasons to Stay Alive, Matt Haig's memoir The Midnight Library and How to Stop Time explores his own depression and mental illness in his short memoir

When she flees to remote California, her ability to travel through memory to revisit the past secures

I listened to this as an audiobook—I like to listen to people read their own memoirs—and I loved hearing

Umrigar is also the author of The Space Between Us, Bombay Time, and the memoir First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood.

But Roberts's memoir doesn't merely explore her culture shock, as interesting as that is. This memoir was more than I'd hoped for. I first mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Three Memoirs I'm Reading Now, 10/7/20 Edition

His book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland was one of my Six of the

This, as always, is only one version of the memory. Funny, how truth changes in the telling.

In doing so, he traces old memories and tracks down details from his childhood, reliving moments, piecing Maxwell wrote six novels and a memoir, Ancestors.

She had never recognized any curiosity or attraction to women before, but in this memoir, Wizenberg recounts This book was mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Three Memoirs I'm Reading Now, 10/7/20 Edition. If you like memoirs, you might also like Six Illuminating Memoirs I Read This Year.

A book I loved, in case you missed it: Wood's memoir is captivating and lovely, poignant, sweet without Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid. This memoir is fantastic. here that in the notes I made with my five-star rating just after reading this in 2012, I said "This memoir

Helena Smith is a neuroscientist creating technology to preserve memories and allow people to relive People like the victim Sutton is investigating are told that their vivid recollections of their life’s memories are not real, and that they’re actually mentally ill, suffering from False Memory Syndrome. When they encounter loved ones from their memories who are now living alternate lives, in many cases While Sutton begins digging into what’s real and what’s a lie, Smith works feverishly to preserve memories

Newman's lets the reader into Edi and Ash's rabbit warren of private jokes and moments and memories,

Fraser grew up in the Pacific Northwest with firsthand memories of arsenic, lead, and copper contamination

Chakrabarti offers characters with complex struggles, hopes, and haunting memories who work to form deep

Cult Classic is a sometimes darkly funny, suspenseful story of love, memory, and mind control with a

Maneka struggles to reconcile her past and her memories with the present and the glittery facades with

She begins to wonder if she's an unreliable source of memories surrounding Mason's death--but she can't

Pan is wonderfully honest, appealingly thoughtful, and often so so funny. I was so happy spending time in her point of view throughout this book. I loved it. Jessica Pan was an introvert out of a job. Her closest friends had moved away, and she found herself lonely, living in another country, and feeling too reliant on her husband for her entire social life. Although she wasn't trying to change her status from introvert to extrovert, she did want to open up to new experiences, broaden her horizons and meet new people, a few of whom she could hopefully in time call true friends. Pan decided to deliberately put herself into extremely uncomfortable social situations for a year, and she fully commits. She does improv, approaches strangers on the Tube, goes on friend dates, attends networking events, takes a vacation alone (to a destination she doesn't learn until she's at the airport), and more. She regrets her one-year plan almost instantly but feels compelled to continue her terrifying exercises. My book club is reading this book, and we were recently saying in anticipation of our upcoming discussion that Pan's concept reminded us somewhat of a book we read years ago, MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend (although that book had a premise that didn't really make sense, since the author seemed surrounded by family, friends, work friends, and didn't seem particularly lonely). Pan is earnest about and determined to see through her gutsy path, which is often horrifyingly frightening for her, frequently not at all what she bargained for, and which gradually pays off in fits and starts of personal growth that are meaningful for her. Her interviews and experiences with others who mentor her journey in different ways could have felt disruptive or jarring but didn't; they added a layer to her story that I found interesting and often revelatory. Pan is wonderfully honest, appealingly thoughtful, and often so so funny. I was so happy spending time in her point of view throughout this book. I loved it and I'd read another book by her in a second. Any Bossy thoughts on this book? Have you read this one? It was the right book at the right time for me. I'd happened to read multiple books in a row in which grim circumstances drove the plots, and this book felt like a breath of fresh air. I first mentioned this book along with The Exiles and The Comeback in the Greedy Reading List Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/22/20 Edition.

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Loved Last Year Six Four-Star (And Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six of My Favorite Memoir His book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland was one of my Six of the It asks us to consider who sets and shapes our shared national memory and what and who gets left out.

scene in Kabul with the vivid sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the past that reemerge in Sitara's memories

What is the value of a life that must be begun anew each day--a life no one else holds memories of? What is the value of a life that must be begun anew each day--a life no one else holds memories of?

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Bobby's recounted memories don't paint her as anything close to a saint; she recounts the evidence of

I love Glennon's heart and her honesty, but many of these essays ended too soon for me. Doyle, the bestselling author of Carry On, Warrior and Love Warrior, writes about her life's ups and downs again in her newest book. In Untamed, she shares lessons she's learned through being true to herself, loving herself and caring for others, bringing up her children, examining her religious faith, and finding love. In often very short essays, she explores living genuinely despite others' criticisms; giving herself permission to take up space in the world and speak up; feeling and expressing a full gamut of emotions rather than keeping the peace; rejecting the myth of ideal mothers being martyrs; and generally relying on her inner voice to guide her through an honest, genuine, and fulfilling life. I found that I missed a more narrative arc here--I would have loved spending more page time in her daily family and work life and seeing time pass in both respects. This might have served as a unifying framework for her thoughts and her exhortations to the reader. Many essays ended too soon for me; I often wanted her to take things a step further to share implications or conclusions, or to explore topics more deeply. I love Glennon's heart and her honesty about her limitations and what she's working on in herself. She's often funny, especially when she's letting us into the small moments of her life. I enjoyed hearing more about her unexpected love story with Abby Wambach, and I admire how she strives to make the world a better place, both generally and also through her wide-reaching nonprofit Together Rising. Any Bossy thoughts on this book? Have you read this one? What about her earlier books? I admit to wanting Doyle to dig further in some of these essays, but I do love how much heart she has. I mentioned this book (along with With or Without You and City of Girls) in Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/21 Edition.

arrives in town, digging into Chloe's past and the recent disappearances, he sparks disturbing old memories

Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler ...you may have heard that goldfish have a three-second memory How can such a small fish hold on to the memory of the snaking path of a maze for three months?

There's a book of short stories; one nonfiction book; a memoir; an atmospheric, mysterious novel; historical determine what they're made of as they consider friendship, betrayal, fear of failure, the power of memory Her memoir is candid, poignant, funny, and always entertaining. I laughed out loud repeatedly while I was reading this charming memoir by this strong, funny woman. They love each other, but they are able to stay married only because they push down the memories of tragedies

her experiences through her childlike point of view, which allows for a painfully pure set of painful memories

known to Harrow; characters lie steadily to each other; and Harrow is an unreliable narrator, with memory

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The memories are beginning to slowly shift back into focus, but he needs them now.