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2016 - MEMOIRS and BIOGRAPHIES
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Memoirs/Biographies1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 19/1/16
2. Between the World and Me 1/2/16
3. The Cross and the Switchblade: The Greatest Inspirational True Story of All Time 25/3/16
4. Life Is a Jungle 17/10/16
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Memoirs/Biographies
1)Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best, What's a Daughter To Do? A Memoir by Elaine Lui 01/05/16
2)Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter: Growing Up with a Gay Dad by Alison Wearing 01/13/16
3)Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 02/04/16
4)Choosing Hope: Moving Forward from Life's Darkest Hours by Kaitlin Roig-DeBellis 02/14/16 (this one cause a lot of tears)
5)The Compression Garment Diaries. Breast Cancer, An Unexpected Gift. by Tara Torchia-Wells 03/07/16 (laughter and tears with this one as I have gone through a similar experience with breast cancer)
Memoirs & Biographies 1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -3/27/16
2. Running with Scissors - 4/27/16
3. Twelve Years a Slave - 6/12/16
4. Night - 9/9/16
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Managed to make myself finish Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie BrownsteinI love Portlandia but was not a Sleater_Kinney fan (too old to be a Riot Grrrl...) so this was really "meh" for me....
Just finished reading this oneBlindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir byRichard M. Cohen not what I usually read but my daughter had to read it for a university course and it looked interesting.
1. Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise2. Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
3. A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
I finished A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir. This was meant to be for last month's Animal Challenge, but I missed the deadline. Since it is a memoir, I'm hoping to count it here.
1. How to Be a Woman - 10/04/162. Reasons to Stay Alive - 15/04/16
3. My Life on the Road - 05/06/16
4. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism - 10/06/16
5. The Argonauts - 22/06/16
Would travel/adventure tales count? (non-fiction, of course, but just about one journey).
Rebecca wrote: "Would travel/adventure tales count? (non-fiction, of course, but just about one journey)."I would say that could be considered a memoir...
And I've got my third and fourth for this with Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief, which was a rather quirky little read, and Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story, which was a great introduction to Sanger
5 memoirs/biographies 1) Love, Lucy
2) Tuesdays with Morrie
3) The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister
Finished two more memoirs#2 A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
#3 Dear Mr. You
Finished yesterday:Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster by Kristen Johnston
So two more, since my travel/adventure narrative was approved.Glory in a Camel's Eye: A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert
H is for Hawk
Category CompletedMemoirs & Biographies
1. The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness by Harlow Giles Unger
2. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
3. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
4. Who Was Maya Angelou? by Ellen Labrecque
5. Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West by D'Arcy Jenish
Complete!1. How to Be a Woman - 10/04/16
2. Reasons to Stay Alive - 15/04/16
3. My Life on the Road - 05/06/16
4. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism - 10/06/16
5. The Argonauts - 22/06/16
Finished my first one:1. Free Days With George: Learning Life's Little Lessons from One Very Big Dog - 24/07/16
I believe this is #4 - String Too Short to Be Saved: Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm.
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2. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
Actual #5 (since I moved my first one to YA): Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in TurkeyAnother graphic novel.
My real #5: Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in TurkeyA graphic novel, but very good and thoughtful about finding herself in all the expectations that were put on her.
Done with number 5 - Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle.
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Books mentioned in this topic
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 (other topics)The Glass Castle (other topics)
Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle (other topics)
Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey (other topics)
Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey (other topics)
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Jeannette Walls (other topics)Carol Burnett (other topics)
D'Arcy Jenish (other topics)
Cary Elwes (other topics)
Richard P. Feynman (other topics)
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