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amother
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 Wed, Jan 17 2024, 9:02 am
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Memoirs are my current favorite genre to read. I would love some recommendations that I can find at my public library. TIA!
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amother
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 9:06 am
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Not sure your level of appropriateness and how sad you're willing to read but I love the Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls and Educated by Tara Westover. Both have some inappropriate parts and are a little disturbing but amazing reads. I saw that the Duggar girl who left and made the documentary jut put out a memoir... I'm on the list in my library for it but there are currently like 50 people in front of me so who knows if I'll ever read it
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amother
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 9:08 am
| amother Green wrote: | | Not sure your level of appropriateness and how sad you're willing to read but I love the Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls and Educated by Tara Westover. Both have some inappropriate parts and are a little disturbing but amazing reads. I saw that the Duggar girl who left and made the documentary jut put out a memoir... I'm on the list in my library for it but there are currently like 50 people in front of me so who knows if I'll ever read it |
Thanks for letting me know about the memoir! I loved both the Glass Castle and Educated. I just searched my library and saw it's available. Yay!!
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amother
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 9:08 am
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Another good one is I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette Mccurdy. She was a child actor in a nickelodeon show. Pretty clean but also somewhat disturbing and sad (I think many memoirs are because you have to have something noteworthy to be writing a memoir about)
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amother
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 9:09 am
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is great, not sure if I would classify exactly as a memoir.
Ruth Reichl (was NYT restaurant critic) books are fun and somewhere between memoirs/ cookbooks (she'll have a chapter and then a recipe...)
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amother
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 9:10 am
I bought this, but DH is reading it first. I can't wait to read it though. The author lived 1848-1930, and the book was recently translated from Yiddish.
The Shochet: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CGYXMB8R
A review was posted on the SeforimChatter substack here: https://seforimchatter.substac.....emoir
The Shochet, a lively memoir penned in Yiddish by Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn (1848-1930), ....
...Goldenshtein's narrative, set against the backdrop of Tiraspol, Ukraine, offers a captivating window into the life and culture of the impoverished Jewish masses inhabiting the Ukrainian countryside. Through the eyes of Pinye-Ber, or Berel, as the memoirist is affectionately known in his childhood, readers are transported into a world marked by hardship and suffering but uplifted by the triumph of the spirit.
I am not sure you would find it in a regular public library catalog, but many public libraries offer the option of searching university catalogues and ordering books from those. You may have to use that option.
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amother
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 9:21 am
When Breath Becomes Air
made me cry
I just keep adding more as I think of them. Tell me your favorites always looking for more suggestions!
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amother
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 9:24 am
| amother Green wrote: | | Another good one is I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette Mccurdy. She was a child actor in a nickelodeon show. Pretty clean but also somewhat disturbing and sad (I think many memoirs are because you have to have something noteworthy to be writing a memoir about) |
I didn't find that clean at all and stopped in the middle cos it really bothered me.
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1ofbillions
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 9:28 am
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb is amazing! Memoir of a year in her life as a therapist.
The Choice by Edith Eger is really good too, she’s a Holocaust survivor. The book mainly focuses on her life after the war which is unique and fascinating.
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skcomputer
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 9:36 am
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
Spare by Prince Harry
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
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amother
Olive
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 9:45 am
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Good Morning Monster is amazing but distrubing.
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GLUE
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 9:50 am
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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain- Abby Norman
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 9:51 am
Free spirit by Joshua safran
This is not a love story by Judy brown
Love many of the ones people mentioned
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amother
Acacia
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 10:00 am
| amother Green wrote: | | Not sure your level of appropriateness and how sad you're willing to read but I love the Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls and Educated by Tara Westover. Both have some inappropriate parts and are a little disturbing but amazing reads. I saw that the Duggar girl who left and made the documentary jut put out a memoir... I'm on the list in my library for it but there are currently like 50 people in front of me so who knows if I'll ever read it |
I just finished the Duggar one from my library, it's very good and respectful.
Lori gottlieb's book is good too.
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yachnabobba
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 10:23 am
| amother Green wrote: | | Not sure your level of appropriateness and how sad you're willing to read but I love the Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls and Educated by Tara Westover. Both have some inappropriate parts and are a little disturbing but amazing reads. I saw that the Duggar girl who left and made the documentary jut put out a memoir... I'm on the list in my library for it but there are currently like 50 people in front of me so who knows if I'll ever read it |
I strongly disliked the premise of educated
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yachnabobba
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 10:23 am
Nothing good ever happens at the babies hospital. Incredible read.
Angels in the ER
Last edited by yachnabobba on Wed, Jan 17 2024, 10:31 am; edited 1 time in total
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amother
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 10:27 am
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And even if not by Devoiry Kreiman. Raw. Honest. Amazing
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amother
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 10:29 am
Weekend at Bellevue
Womb with a view
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 10:30 am
The end of normal
A heartbreaking gut punching story of the madoff situation by his daughter in law
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Reality
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Wed, Jan 17 2024, 10:38 am
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
The Arogant Years
Both by Lucette Laniodo, an unbelievable storyteller and talented write. She was able to write two memoirs, one about her father and the other about her mother, and both books are pageturners.
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