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Ibram X. Kendi recommended Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches in Books (curated)

 
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde | 1984 | Fiction & Poetry, Gender Studies, LGBTQ+
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"I grew up in a Christian household thinking there was something abnormal and immoral about queer blacks. My racialized transphobia made Mock’s memoir an agonizing read — just as my racialized homophobia made Lorde’s essays and speeches a challenge. But pain often precedes healing."

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Daniel Pinchbeck recommended Minor Characters in Books (curated)

 
Minor Characters
Minor Characters
Joyce Johnson | 1996 | Biography
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"My mother wrote this memoir about her childhood, her bohemian and Beatnik friends, and her early love affair with Jack Kerouac. She was with him when On the Road came out, and witnessed how his sudden rise to prominence hastened his dissolution."

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MoMoBookDiary (20 KP) rated The Sea Is Quiet Tonight: A Memoir in Books

Oct 1, 2018  
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The Sea Is Quiet Tonight: A Memoir
Michael H. Ward | 2016
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MoMo Book Diary recommends Michael Ward’s The Sea Is Quiet as a very emotional 5 star read. Michael truly honors Mark’s memory with this memoir.

“The Sea Is Quiet Tonight: A Memoir” tells a heartbreaking story that will have you hooked from the start. The author writes from the heart as he tells the wonderful yet brutally honest story of his relationship with his partner, Mark Halberstadt. Mark was the 100th person in Massachusetts to be diagnosed with AIDS. I was too young to fully understand the chatter about AIDS during the 1980s. Since then, I have read a number of articles and books on the devastation brought with an AIDS diagnosis – nothing has touched me in the way this memoir has. At times I felt that I was reading the author’s personal diary, it was so raw and honest. The characters were described perfectly and I felt that I knew them personally.

This review is also published on my blog, netgalley and amazon