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.
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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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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...
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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
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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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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
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...
"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.
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Yesterday it was the memoirs page. Today my book’s top of Bookshop. org’s *main* Biography & Memoir list.
(right next to Jenni Fagan (Scotland represent!) and a bit under Marcus Aurelius!)
No PR machine. Just people getting behind a working-class Scottish debut
If you’ve been thinking about it, now’s the time:
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/drystone-a-life-rebuilt-kristie-de-garis/7836359?ean=9781846976469
Now I’m off to build a wall.
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the tone of ‘careless people’ by sarah wynn-williams - a memoir about her time at facebook - is light, conversational, often self-deprecating and at times simply funny, but the content isn’t.
in hindsight, i believe the power of ‘careless people’ lies in this ‘light’ tone. it reminds me of a quote from the art of war: all warfare is deception.
full review: https://idealistatheart.com/careless-people-by-sarah-wynn-williams/
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"1 SUMMER OF LOVE
I was driving through the pitch black Virginia night, down the perfectly flat blacktop that was once a railroad track, across that high bridge over the ravine, thinking about the details of how one night I was going to drive off it. I was sure I'd never live to the age of eighteen, so I never bothered making any plans for the future. Eighteen had come and gone a year ago, but I was still breathing. And things were only getting worse.
The summer of 1982. That disgusting, sticky, humid weather where your back soaks through your shirt just from taking a short drive. By midsummer everything was a mess. My sister Liz's boyfriend flipped out in our kitchen one night and attacked me with a butcher knife. Soon after, Liz tried to kill herself for the first of many times. Swallowed a bunch of pills. Her heart stopped the moment we got her to the hospital, but they were able to revive her.
Pretty soon after that, Liz and my mom went out of town to visit relatives and I found my father's dead body lying there sideways on my parents' bed, fully dressed in his usual shirt and tie, with his feet almost on the floor, like he just sat down to die at fifty-one. I tried to learn CPR from the 911 operator on the phone, carrying my father's already-stiff body across the bedroom floor. It was weird touching him. That was the first time we had any physical contact that I could remember, other than the occasional cigarette burn on my arm while squeezing by him in the hallway.
I figured driving off the bridge might be the best way to deal with the crushing, lost, and empty feeling of being me. A dramatic way to go, of course. I was a kid. Later in life it would usually be a gun I imagined using on myself. Not quite as dramatic as driving off a bridge in your hometown. You can chart my development this way. In more recent years I would think about pills most often. That dramatic stuff is for kids. I'm mature now.
At the end of the summer, which I had already started referring to as The Summer of Love, I drove my gold '71 Chevy Nova away from home for the first time. I had bought the car that I called 'Old Gold', complete with a stop sign used in place of its rusted-out floorboard, for a hundred bucks from my hot, blonde cousin Jennifer, who years later would die on the plane that hit The Pentagon, September 11, 2001. She was a flight attendant. Sent a postcard from Dulles airport that morning that read 'Ain't Life Grand?' in big letters on the front.
My father worked at The Pentagon back around the time I was born. If I believed in curses, I'd have to wonder if the plane hit the part of the building where my father's office once was. But I don't believe in curses. Life is full of ups and downs. There have been some extremes in my life's case but, considering I had no plan, and very little of the kind of self-esteem you need to get by in this world, things could be worse. I'm just wandering through here, seeing what happens.
I don't know what happens when you die and I don't expect to find out until I die. Probably nothing, but you never know. For now, I'm still alive, and I've come to realize that some of the most horrible moments of my life have led to some of the best, so I'm not one for eating up people's melodrama. Just another day to me."
— Mark Oliver Everett: Things the Grandchildren Should Know, pp. 1-3
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tara schuster’s ‘buy yourself the fucking lilies’ is part memoir, part self-help book with each of the 30+ chapters dedicated to a different self-care practice. a bit like a buffet with too many options.
my advice: enjoy the memoir, but don’t let the self-care buffet stress you out.
full review: https://idealistatheart.com/buy-yourself-the-fucking-lilies/
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“QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE … provides insight into what it takes an individual to survive, both (with luck) physically and, more importantly, ethically”
– retired Australian Army officer Jason Thomas on George MacDonald Fraser’s memoir of the WW2 Burma campaign
https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/special-series/dusty-shelves/quartered-safe/
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War Room - U.S. Army War College · ON GOOD PENMANSHIP: QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE (DUSTY SHELVES)It's been a while but the DUSTY SHELVES series is back with a new look at an older book. WAR ROOM welcomes Jason Thomas as he reviews Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser. An intriguing look at the oft forgotten China Burma India Theater of World War II, MacDonald Fraser is a skilled author that relays the experiences of the men of The Border Regiment through his personal history as an infantryman in the Burma Campaign. Jason pulls out the book's lessons of unit cohesion, integrity, ethics and resilience that are timeless and useful to any military leader and deems Quartered Safe Out Here worthy of a dust off.
This one was hard.
I wrote about being the wrong kind of victim.
The kind who stayed. The kind who didn't call the police. The kind who texted three days after.
And yes, it might make you feel uncomfortable, but it's the experience of many, many victims. So important to understand.
https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/not-the-right-kind-of-victim/
By Hand · Not The Right Kind Of VictimMost of my friends will learn about many things for the first time when they read my book. Not because I was hiding them. Not exactly. But because the kind of trauma I carry doesn’t naturally come up in conversation. It’s not neat. It cannot be told between
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Have I ever read a nonfiction book that turned out to be more entertaining than a novel?
Oh, yes. Al Franken's Giant of the Senate. And every bit of it is true. It's sad he was run out of the Senate. He's also wonderful live (he's the only senator who does stand up).
“I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.”
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In nonfiction, do I prefer memoirs, history, science, etc. or another subgenre?
These days I prefer political-leaning biographies or memoirs, although I'll listen (via audiobook) pretty widely in nonfiction.
A Woman Among Wolves My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery by Diane K. Boyd, 2024
Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane Boyd has spent four decades studying and advocating for wolves in the wilds of Montana near Glacier National Park.
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A LINGUIST’S LOVE LETTER to language is a stunning combination of scientific depth, personal candor, and beautiful prose that ties speech (and sign) to everything essential to being human. Truly extraordinary. A MINUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/linguaphile-julie-sedivy/1144629515?ean=9780374601836
Barnes & NobleLinguaphile: A Life of Language Love|HardcoverA celebration of the beauty and mystery of language and how it shapes our lives, our loves, and our world.If there is one feature that defines the human condition, it is language: written, spoken, signed, understood, and misunderstood, in all its infinite glory. In this...
If the Coat Doesn’t Fit, Write About It
Award-winning journalist Rita Lussier shares how a chance encounter on an airplane and gift of kindness led to writing essays (and a book).
The post If the Coat Doesn’t Fit, Write About It appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/if-the-coat-doesnt-fit-write-about-it
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Writer's Digest · If the Coat Doesn't Fit, Write About ItAward-winning journalist Rita Lussier shares how a chance encounter on an airplane and gift of kindness led to writing essays (and a book).