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Yolanda’s 2024 Year in Books
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William Shakespeare, the Brontes, Louise Erdrich, Doris Lessing, Gabri
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I’m currently writing my fourth book, a novel.
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Porridge and Cucu: My Childhood
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The Honeyeater
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2013
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Sonnets to the Japim Bird
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Five Memoirs For Your Summer Reading List
1. BRUTALLY HONEST by Melanie Brown--This memoir details former Spice Girl, Mel B, and her roller-coaster life. It covers her working-class childhood and adolescence in the UK; her introduction to the music industry when, as a teen, she answered the newspaper ad that led her to join the famous girl band; her years on tour; and her struggles with her obsessively controlling, abusive Svengali-like h
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
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Genuine, authentic and refreshing THIS AMERICAN WOMAN is a quirky and funny memoir that was a joy to read. I discovered Zarna Garg's stand-up, "One in a Billion," by chance on YouTube. Immediately, I purchased the book and was not disappointed. Ms. G ...more |
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Genuine, authentic and refreshing THIS AMERICAN WOMAN is a quirky and funny memoir that was a joy to read. I discovered Zarna Garg's stand-up, "One in a Billion," by chance on YouTube. Immediately, I purchased the book and was not disappointed. Ms. G ...more |
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Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, from Scout to Go Set a Watchman
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The Jane Austen of Alabama The author Harper Lee once said, "I have said what I have said, and I will not say it again." ...more |
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“All I want is to be the Jane Austen of South Alabama.”
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“Ghosts are not what I remember of my childhood; but somehow they
infuse memories of myself as a child, the little girl in a storybook, with
ghosts hovering around her.”
― Porridge and Cucu: My Childhood
infuse memories of myself as a child, the little girl in a storybook, with
ghosts hovering around her.”
― Porridge and Cucu: My Childhood
“THE HONEYEATER story was mesmerizing: the story took hold of me and I felt compelled to write it. I was also inspired by a few female authors (among them, Doris Lessing and Isabel Allende) I've admired over the years--women who preceded me and who gave me the courage to even begin.”
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| Around the World ...: Jessica - Frequent Flyer 2013 | 91 | 129 | Dec 25, 2013 08:24PM | |
| Making Connections: 3244. - THE HONEYEATER by Yolanda A. Reid | 8 | 80 | Feb 10, 2015 02:43PM | |
| Making Connections: 5563. - SONNETS TO THE JAPIM BIRD by Yolanda A. Reid | 4 | 15 | Oct 25, 2019 07:36AM | |
| Around the World ...: Jessica - Circumnavigator | 63 | 535 | Dec 01, 2019 11:05PM | |
| Around the World ...: Panama | 17 | 793 | Feb 26, 2025 11:32AM |
“Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“Ghosts are not what I remember of my childhood; but somehow they
infuse memories of myself as a child, the little girl in a storybook, with
ghosts hovering around her.”
― Porridge and Cucu: My Childhood
infuse memories of myself as a child, the little girl in a storybook, with
ghosts hovering around her.”
― Porridge and Cucu: My Childhood
“We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.”
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“THE HONEYEATER story was mesmerizing: the story took hold of me and I felt compelled to write it. I was also inspired by a few female authors (among them, Doris Lessing and Isabel Allende) I've admired over the years--women who preceded me and who gave me the courage to even begin.”
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