The writer #JohnBanville observed, "Memory is imagination, and imagination is memory. I don't think we remember the past, we imagine it." ~ #Memories and #Imagination #writers #writing #memoir
Link to memoir post on Tall And True: https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/nonfiction/biography-memoir/memories-and-imagination
Her father was the Presbyterian minister in town, and when I invited her to dinner, she replied, “Oh, good. I’ve always wanted to know how heathens eat.”
https://buff.ly/42X0JJz
The Exvangelicals (
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The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the church: the exvangelicals.
Growing up in a deeply evangelical family in the Midwest in the ‘80s and ‘90s, Sarah McCammon was strictly taught to fear God, obey him, and not question the faith. Persistently worried that her gay grandfather would go to hell unless she could reach him, or that her...
Review of "He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters" by Schuyler Bailar
Read on my blog:
https://stardustrohrig.com/2025/02/17/he-she-they-review/
Two daily #SmallPress #books:
Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 Cleveland by James Robenalt (Chicago Review Press @chireviewpress.bsky.social) https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/ballots-and-bullets-products-9781641603119.php?page_id=21
When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black: The Lost Memoir of Britain’s First Black Olympic Medal Winner—and the America He Discovered by Harry Edward (Yale UP) https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300270976/when-i-passed-the-statue-of-liberty-i-became-black/
#reading #memoir #nonfiction #bookstodon #BlackHistoryMonth
If you were responsible for some of the worst television that aired in the 20th century, would you write about it? Bruce Vilanch did, and it's hilarious. My review: #Bookthreads #Booksky #BookBlogger #ARCReview #NetGalley #ChicagoReviewPress #Bookstagram #Memoir #Television #BruceVilanch
Near the top of the road dropping down into the Bella Coola valley, a drop of 1,500 metres. New blog post:https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/02/disguised-as-mountains.html #Mountains #BCMountains #Geology #Memoir #BellaCoola
Near the top of the road dropping down into the Bella Coola valley, a drop of 1,500 metres. New blog post:https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/02/disguised-as-mountains.html #Mountains #BCMountains #Geology #Memoir #BellaCoola
You may not read a memoir this good again for a while - Lech Blaine's AUSTRALIAN GOSPEL is a book you will not believe and not put down. https://www.kasshall.com/australian-gospel-by-lech-blaine/ #Bookstadon #books #memoir
As a child, American Grammy-nominee Neko Case thought she was Canadian. She still feels close to the country
Neko Case's childhood and path to becoming a Grammy-nominated musician are detailed in her new memoir, The Harder I Fight The More I Love You, available now.
#music #memoir #childhood #News #Canada #BritishColumbia
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/neko-case-memoir-the-harder-i-fight-the-more-i-love-you-1.7456759?cmp=rss
As a child, American Grammy-nominee Neko Case thought she was Canadian. She still feels close to the country
Neko Case's childhood and path to becoming a Grammy-nominated musician are detailed in her new memoir, The Harder I Fight The More I Love You, available now.
#music #memoir #childhood #News #Canada #BritishColumbia
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/neko-case-memoir-the-harder-i-fight-the-more-i-love-you-1.7456759?cmp=rss
When the Earth Turned in His Hands by Abby Paradis
"I envied how he walked through life knowing everything about his space and his place in it, and I was shocked he didn’t know this..." #memoir #micromemoir https://link.medium.com/4IZDbEuXYQb
... to our newest #library -themed addition in our collection: small-town librarian Amanda Jones is "That Librarian" who stood up for #diversity & against book banning in #America - this is her #memoir & manifesto
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/13/in_depth_interview_with_tariq_ali
#TariqAli author of the new #memoir 'YouCantPleaseAll'
In-depth interview
The Amazing Grace of Dogs by Lou Dean is a different kind of love story. "A wonderful read by a master storyteller. A book of great wisdom and wit."
#memoir #books #dogs
https://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Grace-Dogs-True-Story-ebook/dp/B097NKYHVH/
"Goupil ou face" by Lou Lubie
The English translation is called 'A Fox in My Brain'. It's a graphic memoir about living with cyclothymia (bipolar III disorder).
Although it's labeled as a memoir, that aspect really takes a backseat. It's more of a general explainer about cyclothymia. I thought it was okay, good but not great. I think that's mainly because I don't appear to be the target audience. This might be a great book for anyone just diagnosed, seeking to get diagnosed, or for anyone who has someone in their life struggling with this and you wish to understand them better.
Like all Lou Lubie books up till now, the art was great. I love how her style is a little different in every book. Here black/grey/white are perfectly contrasted with orange/peach/red to show the highs and lows. The various personified forms of the different types of bipolar disorder were (oddly enough?) very cute (until they became threatening /hide ).
The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
#Book #Family #Meh #Memoir #NonFiction #Review #TheGlassCastle #JeannetteWalls #ChildhoodTrauma #FamilyNeglect #BookReview #BooksOfMastodon #Bookstadon @bookstodon #bookstodon #MemoirReview
https://turing.mailstation.de/the-glass-castle-by-jeannette-walls/?fsp_sid=510
We put lotsa love into our books, and there's plenty about love in them.
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Suggestions:
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Young love on the New Jersey Shore: https://www.newdoorbooks.net/mr-boardwalk
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Ditto in Kenya: https://www.newdoorbooks.net/busara-road
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Love in the sci-fi world: https://www.newdoorbooks.net/the-speed-of-clouds
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