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. thêm 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. hoặc you're like me, who likes whatever she reads as long as its good. Whatever bạn like to read, here are a few memorable memoirs that I'd recommend bạn read.
With memoirs written bởi writers, bạn rightfully expect that the memoir is as good of a read as their non/fiction tales. None of the following authors will let bạn down! link's memoirs, which are chẻ, phân chia, split into childhood and adulthood, are as imaginatively funny and horrible gruesome as his fictional tales (did bạn know that his nose was practically sliced off in an accident?). Beverly Cleary's memoirs, also chẻ, phân chia, split between youth and adulthood, hiển thị 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 bởi 'ordinary' folks, but whose memoirs reveal the challanges they had to overcome in their life, whether they be economic, political, religious, hoặc 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 nghề viết văn 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 bởi winning companies' advertising contests, submitting such poems as:
All of these memoirs I've read (and re-read) and enjoyed immensely. I do hope bạn pick them up at the thư viện hoặc bookstore and read them -- and would greatly appreciate any recommendations from y'all!
Summary danh sách 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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With memoirs written bởi writers, bạn rightfully expect that the memoir is as good of a read as their non/fiction tales. None of the following authors will let bạn down! link's memoirs, which are chẻ, phân chia, split into childhood and adulthood, are as imaginatively funny and horrible gruesome as his fictional tales (did bạn know that his nose was practically sliced off in an accident?). Beverly Cleary's memoirs, also chẻ, phân chia, split between youth and adulthood, hiển thị 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 bởi 'ordinary' folks, but whose memoirs reveal the challanges they had to overcome in their life, whether they be economic, political, religious, hoặc 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 nghề viết văn 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 bởi winning companies' advertising contests, submitting such poems as:
All of these memoirs I've read (and re-read) and enjoyed immensely. I do hope bạn pick them up at the thư viện hoặc bookstore and read them -- and would greatly appreciate any recommendations from y'all!
Summary danh sách 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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