Now, there are two types of memoirs in my mind: those about famous people, and those that aren't. Both have their pros and cons. もっと見る people are likely to notice a famous memoir at the bookstore and buy it based on the celebrity's name -- but "common folk" memoirs don't have pre-conceptions, politics, and religious perspectives to overcome. または you're like me, who likes whatever she reads as long as its good. Whatever あなた like to read, here are a few memorable memoirs that I'd recommend あなた read.
With memoirs written によって writers, あなた rightfully expect that the memoir is as good of a read as their non/fiction tales. None of the following authors will let あなた down! link's memoirs, which are スプリット, 分割 into childhood and adulthood, are as imaginatively funny and horrible gruesome as his fictional tales (did あなた know that his nose was practically sliced off in an accident?). Beverly Cleary's memoirs, also スプリット, 分割 between youth and adulthood, 表示する how she and her literary celebrity Ramona Quimby are very similar. link's memoir isn't a straight progression of her life but rather chapters of the traumatic (her father and older brother dying of brain tumors in the same year) and the humorous (being part of a rock-n-roll band with fellow writers Dave Barry, Stephen King, and Chris Rankin).
Then there are those spectacular memoirs written によって 'ordinary' folks, but whose memoirs reveal the challanges they had to overcome in their life, whether they be economic, political, religious, または health-related. link, who distinctly designed her memoirs as graphic novels, details how her childhood wasn't much of a childhood during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Azar Nafisi combines her days as a English literature professor in Tehran also during the Islamic Revolution with spectacularly insightful dissections of Lolita, The Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice. Jeannette Walls reveals how her parents' free-spirit/anti-government attitudes encouraged self-sufficency, as well as extreme poverty. Daniel Tammet's 書く might seem slightly stilted, without much emotion, but that is because he is an autistic savant with Asperger's syndrome (sufferers has difficulty identifying with others' emotions). And Terry Ryan's mother only managed to keep her eleven-member family out of the poor house によって winning companies' advertising contests, submitting such poems as:
All of these memoirs I've read (and re-read) and enjoyed immensely. I do hope あなた pick them up at the としょうかん, ライブラリ または bookstore and read them -- and would greatly appreciate any recommendations from y'all!
Summary 一覧 of recommended memoirs
*By Roald Dahl - Boy: Tales of Childhood and Going Solo
*By Beverly Cleary - A Girl from Yamhill and My Own Two Feet
*By Amy Tan - The Opposite of Fate
*By Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis and Persepolis 2
*By Azar Nafisi - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
*By Jeannette Walls - The Glass Castle
*By Daniel Tammet - Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
*By Terry Ryan - The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
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Soapboax 記事 によって Cressida Hanson
With memoirs written によって writers, あなた rightfully expect that the memoir is as good of a read as their non/fiction tales. None of the following authors will let あなた down! link's memoirs, which are スプリット, 分割 into childhood and adulthood, are as imaginatively funny and horrible gruesome as his fictional tales (did あなた know that his nose was practically sliced off in an accident?). Beverly Cleary's memoirs, also スプリット, 分割 between youth and adulthood, 表示する how she and her literary celebrity Ramona Quimby are very similar. link's memoir isn't a straight progression of her life but rather chapters of the traumatic (her father and older brother dying of brain tumors in the same year) and the humorous (being part of a rock-n-roll band with fellow writers Dave Barry, Stephen King, and Chris Rankin).
Then there are those spectacular memoirs written によって 'ordinary' folks, but whose memoirs reveal the challanges they had to overcome in their life, whether they be economic, political, religious, または health-related. link, who distinctly designed her memoirs as graphic novels, details how her childhood wasn't much of a childhood during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Azar Nafisi combines her days as a English literature professor in Tehran also during the Islamic Revolution with spectacularly insightful dissections of Lolita, The Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice. Jeannette Walls reveals how her parents' free-spirit/anti-government attitudes encouraged self-sufficency, as well as extreme poverty. Daniel Tammet's 書く might seem slightly stilted, without much emotion, but that is because he is an autistic savant with Asperger's syndrome (sufferers has difficulty identifying with others' emotions). And Terry Ryan's mother only managed to keep her eleven-member family out of the poor house によって winning companies' advertising contests, submitting such poems as:
All of these memoirs I've read (and re-read) and enjoyed immensely. I do hope あなた pick them up at the としょうかん, ライブラリ または bookstore and read them -- and would greatly appreciate any recommendations from y'all!
Summary 一覧 of recommended memoirs
*By Roald Dahl - Boy: Tales of Childhood and Going Solo
*By Beverly Cleary - A Girl from Yamhill and My Own Two Feet
*By Amy Tan - The Opposite of Fate
*By Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis and Persepolis 2
*By Azar Nafisi - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
*By Jeannette Walls - The Glass Castle
*By Daniel Tammet - Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
*By Terry Ryan - The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
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Soapboax 記事 によって Cressida Hanson
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