Posts Tagged ‘ memoir ’
Adventures with Audiobooks: Bossypants by Tina Fey
Review: The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin
I feel need to begin by saying that I wasn’t familiar with Staceyann Chin at all before reading her memoir The Other Side of Paradise. Bitch Magazine published a review some time ago that made it sound interesting. Chin’s memoir is, in fact, quite heartbreaking. Outsiders tend to romanticize Jamaica as a place of…
Review: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Format: Paperback Published on: October 30th 2007 (first published 2003) Published by: Pantheon Pages: 352 ISBN: 0375714839 Goodreads Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis, chronicles her life growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Before going any further, I need to say two things in the interest of full disclosure: Persepolis is the first…
Review: Against The Stream: Growing Up Where Hitler User To Live by Anna Elisabeth Rosmus
Translated by: Imogen von Tannenberg Format: Hardcover Published on: October 28th 2002 Published by: University of South Carolina Press Pages: 160 ISBN: 1570034907 Goodreads Anna Rosmus was a student in the early 1980s when she was entered into an essay contest about her hometown during Nazi rule. Born into a middle class Catholic family,…
Review: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
Format: Paperback Published on: January 14th 1995 Published by: Vintage Pages: 224 ISBN: 0679763309 Goodreads In her memoir An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Kay Redfield Jamison describes a time during her undergraduate career when she was tutoring a blind student. After knowing the blind student for a while, Jamison feels…
Review: This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor by Susan Wicklund
Format: Paperback Published on: December 29th 2008 Published by: PublicAffairs Pages: 288 ISBN: 1586486470 Goodreads I knew or rather heard stories of some of the realities abortion providers face: shootings, arson, attacks on clinics. Because the murder of Dr. George Tiller had not yet happened when I read Susan Wicklund’s memoir, This Common Secret:…
