Help me at the public library (raised chasidish)

amother

Tomato

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 8:56 am

Where the crawdads sing
Liane moriarty books
Ellen hilderbrand books

saltandvinegar

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 9:44 am

amother Pistachio wrote:

I think Angela's Ashes was very very not clean, or am I mixing it up with a different book?

Wasnt so clean I guess. Spoke about prostitution etc. I read it in middle school I never censored myself with books though

DrMom

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 9:48 am

Pride and Prejudice is an excellent novel (since you mentioned Regency novels).

Classic novels tend to be clean and well-written.

A Tale of Two Cities
The Count of Monte Cristo

^^^ also good choices.

Traveller247

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 11:07 am

amother Magenta wrote:

Memoirs are the best!

Girl Interrupted
The Glass Castle
I’m Glad My Mom Died

are a few that I like. I don’t remember if they’re clean.

If I'm remembering correctly, I'm glad my mom died was not clean.

amother

Diamond

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 11:08 am

B'Syata D'Shmya wrote:

Mauve Binchy

The famous writer of purple prose!

Comptroller

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 11:09 am

saltandvinegar wrote:

I loved Angela's Ashes

This wasn't a memoir, but a really beautiful book I read in middle school was Stones from the River. I still remember details from it it was so beautifully written. I think I will check it out again and reread it actually!

Yes, it is a memoir by Frank Mc Court. It's his childhood or his mother's life.

Traveller247

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 11:10 am

I enjoyed drs get cancer too and henry marsh books but don't recall the name (he was a neurologist, patient stories).

Traveller247

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 11:12 am

I shot daddy is also a fantastic book but it's got graphic descriptions on s-xual abuse she underwent.

amother

Black

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 11:15 am

I really enjoy books written by foster carers detailing their foster children's stories. Usually no graphic details. I've enjoyed Maggie Hartley, Cathy glass, Casey Watson and Angela hart.

amother

Hydrangea

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 11:24 am

Please check back and let us know which books you liked, so we can recommend more.

amother

Lemon

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 11:37 am

amother OP wrote:

Any recommendations for memoirs? I enjoy memoirs too they're just harder to find good ones.

Educated and the glass castle. You won’t regret it! They’re national best sellers.

saltandvinegar

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 11:47 am

Comptroller wrote:

Yes, it is a memoir by Frank Mc Court. It's his childhood or his mother's life.

Yep, I recommended the other book Stones from the River which isnt a memoir. I think you misread my post. Its a great book

amother

Camellia

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 11:47 am

Traveller247 wrote:

If I'm remembering correctly, I'm glad my mom died was not clean.

The premise of being able to say that is all about shock value and so off the deep end hashkafically I’d never pick up such a. Ook

amother

Magenta

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 12:13 pm

amother Camellia wrote:

The premise of being able to say that is all about shock value and so off the deep end hashkafically I’d never pick up such a. Ook

Don’t judge a book by it’s title. *Slight spoilers* She misses her mom but she’s glad she died so she could live a freer life

bgr8ful

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 4:18 pm

amother Tomato wrote:

Where the crawdads sing
Liane moriarty books
Ellen hilderbrand books

I only read a couple but I remember them not being completely clean. I think.

liane moriarty is awesome!

GLUE

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 4:46 pm

If your public library still has this memoir you might like it,

Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants- Paul W. Brand, Philip Yancey
It was written by a leprosy Dr.

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yachnabobba

Tue, Apr 02 2024, 4:59 pm

amother Red wrote:

Not a memoir, but historical fiction with a semi-autobiographical major character: Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. A brilliant book. And, at around 900 pages, it'll keep you busy for a while Smile

The author was Jewish, some of the characters are, but most of the characters are not.

Some background/description from a Guardian review:

Grossman was a Soviet Jewish journalist who covered the battle of Stalingrad and the liberation of the Treblinka extermination camp. After the war he wrote this epic novel. Life and Fate is a Soviet War and Peace, in which every aspect of society radiates out from the central characters, Viktor Shtrum and his wife Lyudmila. Shtrum is a physicist and member of the academy of sciences; his wife’s first husband has been arrested during the purges; her son is a lieutenant in the army; Viktor’s mother, in the Nazi-occupied sector, is en route to the gas chamber. Dozens more interlinked people endure the war and its impact on ordinary and important lives, including those of Stalin and Hitler.
...
When Grossman submitted his manuscript in 1960 he was told it could not be published for 200 years. Two years later he was dead of stomach cancer, his novel confiscated, “arrested” as he said, for he had assaulted Soviet totalitarianism.

I just ordered Stalingrad by Vassily Grossman
Saving it for pesach