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I actually don't read memoirs that often but I recently bought . It seemed pretty interesting.

Memoir remains one of my favorite literary genres. A good one to mention would be A Stranger to Myself, compiled from the manuscripts of Willy Peter Reese, an ordinary German soldier on the Russian front. He observed the war and its psychological effects on him as well as fellow soldiers in an intellectual, almost philosopher-like perspective. During a leave at home Willy wrote down his introspections and returned to the front, from which he never returned. It was estimated by the German Red Cross many years later the war that he died somewhere near Vitebsk, Belorussia at about June 30, 1944. For those who are familiar with WW2 history, it is almost certain that he died in the early state of Operation Bagration, the Soviet counteroffensive in the summer of 1944.



Here I will include a poem from this book. It is surely depressing, but very thought-provoking.



　　　We are war. Because we're the soldiers.
　　　I have burned all the cities,
　　　strangled all the women,
　　　brained all the children,
　　　plundered all the land.
　　　I have shot a million enemies,
　　　laid waste the fields,
　　　destroyed the churches,
　　　ravaged the souls of the inhabitants,
　　　spilled the blood and tears of all the mothers.
　　
　　　I did it, all me.
　　　Nothing. But I was a soldier.

Memoirs are my very favorite. this was really good I'm dying to read

Karina wrote: "I actually don't read memoirs that often but I recently bought . It seemed pretty interesting."

I really liked that one!

Scott wrote: "Karina wrote: "I actually don't read memoirs that often but I recently bought . It seemed pretty interesting."

I really liked that one!"


Ooh great! I hadn't noticed it was a memoir until after I bought it so at first I wasn't so sure I would read it but I decided to give it a try. Memoirs are not something that have caught my attention much.

Has anyone read memoirs written as graphic novels? I didn't know such novels existed until recently! I am curious about them.

OHh, I actually didn't know that A Wolf at the Table was a memoir! I own it but have not read it yet. Has anyone else?

was one of my favorites, I really liked the movie too!

I usually don't read memoirs but I loved The Glass Castle!

I'm not old enough to read most memoirs do to explicit content, but I do like:
Smile by Raina Telgemeier
Some day my prince will come by Jeremy Fine