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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens
Eddie Izzard | 2017 | Biography
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10.0 (1 Ratings)
Eddie Izzard's usual wit, wisdom, and sense of humour (0 more)
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Personally, I feel everyone should read this book. Or listen to it! It's even better in audio, as he narrates his own memoir so adds in extras that he thinks about as he's narrating.
  
Not strictly a Christian apologetics book, but partly a personal memoir and partly a defense of a kind of thoughtful and nuanced political conservativism influenced by Christian beliefs. Well worth the read, even if you don't find yourself in accord with all of Hitchens' political beliefs.
  
The Devil Finds Work
The Devil Finds Work
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"Baldwin is one of my favorite writers and cultural critics. His work always feels both relevant and revelatory. This book-long essay on film and moviegoing is part memoir, part homage to cinema, and also an exploration of the ways corrosive ideas seep into the collective imagination."

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Michael C. Hall recommended I Remember in Books (curated)

 
I Remember
I Remember
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"This book is a gem. A memoir in the form of free-associative prose poetry, it’s deceptively simple and spare. Brainard’s collage of matter-of-fact remembrances creates a rich and tender portrait of the writer, his time and place, and magically mirrors the reader’s equivalent humanity."

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Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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8.5 (13 Ratings)
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Angela's Ashes was an extremely heavy, tragic but touching memoir peppered with humor and emotion and love. Frank McCourt is a master at telling stories, but this memoir of his Irish Catholic family, spans so many subjects, so creatively and so beautifully - from family, to love, religion, sickness, abandonment, poverty... The hardship that immigrants had to go through is heartbreaking - as is their strength, and will to survive and make better lives for themselves. So much emotion after reading this. I don't know if this story will leave me for awhile. Definitely something for the mature reader, and definitely something that stays within you.
  
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
Peter Hessler | 2019 | History & Politics
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6.0 (1 Ratings)
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I wasn't sure what to expect of this book. Was it a memoir of the author? A history of the Arab Spring? A history of archaeology in Egypt?
Well, it was all of the above, and I'm not sure I dug it. I minored in archaeology, so that was the main reason I read it. I knew somewhat of the Geo-political situation in that area of the world, but I avoid a lot of current events.
Don't get me wrong, Hessler is a great writer. However, I didn't sign up for a memoir.
It was an interesting mesh of all three subjects, I'm not sure it strictly worked.
  
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel | 2006 | Biography
9.0 (3 Ratings)
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"This graphic memoir is about becoming an artist, repression, liberation, death, the dichotomous feelings between parent and child… “Fun Home” takes you on a journey into the rich murkiness of Bechdel’s past. The fusion of her writing and illustrative skill make for a singularly vivid encounter. Devastating, hilarious, inspiring."

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Debbie Macbomber recommended From Scratch in Books (curated)

 
From Scratch
From Scratch
Tembi Locke | 2019 | Biography, Health & Fitness
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"This is one of those books I will read more than once. It’s a beautiful memoir and an incredible love story taking place with the Sicilian countryside as a backdrop. It reminded me of Eat Pray Love. It’s the kind of story that will linger in my mind."

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May 17, 2022  
"A fictional memoir by Jesus ‘Chuy’ Perez Contreras Verazzi Messi about the ten years leading to the notorious and unsolved Fountain murders."

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Orange is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison
Orange is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison
Piper Kerman | 2016 | Biography
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7.4 (18 Ratings)
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Brutally honest and well structured (0 more)
Could be slow at times (0 more)
Better that the netflix series
When I lifted this book from the shelve I thought it had been put in the wrong section as I was looking for memoir. I was delighted however, when I turned the book over and the blurb revealed that is was in fact a memoir. I had just finished watching all three series of 'Orange is the New Black' on Netflex and had quickly become a fan. The TV program is very thinly based on Kerman's actual experience and because of this I cannot make comparisons. The novel stands alone as an intelligent and well structured memoir that reads like fiction. The author portrays her time in prison through her connection with the other female prisoners and the way in which they were/are forced to endure prison life. The book is emotional, funny and heartbreaking. Kerman has captured a time in her life with precision that only a true writer can. I feel like I could have been there with her. Well done.