#memoir — Public Fediverse posts

I've decided to write a memoir. Title: 'The Sacred Chalice of Rixx and Other Adventures in Fabulousness.' The publishers are concerned it might be too revealing. I told them, darling, that's the entire point! #LwaxanaTroi #Memoir #AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TNG #StarTrekDS9 #DS9 #Mastodon

I've decided to write a memoir. Title: 'The Sacred Chalice of Rixx and Other Adventures in Fabulousness.' The publishers are concerned it might be too revealing. I told them, darling, that's the entire point! #LwaxanaTroi #Memoir #AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TNG #StarTrekDS9 #DS9 #Mastodon

#AmReading All Roads Lead to Austen, a memoir/travelogue about an American English teacher who decides to spend a year in Latin America and see if Austen hits the same way in translation. She's also exploring recommendations for local literature. Very engaging, especially for an Austen fan.

@bookstodon
#Bookstodon
#NonfictionBooks
#Memoir

#AmReading All Roads Lead to Austen, a memoir/travelogue about an American English teacher who decides to spend a year in Latin America and see if Austen hits the same way in translation. She's also exploring recommendations for local literature. Very engaging, especially for an Austen fan.

@bookstodon
#Bookstodon
#NonfictionBooks
#Memoir

★ Most Apprenticeship to Love chapters are available on the website. The upcoming Aug 16 chapter, "How Do I Attend Thee," is for the "1000 Early Readers" list only.
You can sign up at apprenticeshiptolove.com or email me at [email protected] to get on the list.

#books #writing #bookstodon #writersofmastodon #publishing #love #sex #marriage #dating #relationships #memoir #men #women

★ Most Apprenticeship to Love chapters are available on the website. The upcoming Aug 16 chapter, "How Do I Attend Thee," is for the "1000 Early Readers" list only.
You can sign up at apprenticeshiptolove.com or email me at [email protected] to get on the list.

#books #writing #bookstodon #writersofmastodon #publishing #love #sex #marriage #dating #relationships #memoir #men #women

In the category rabbit-holes-I-definitely-won't-go-down-in: map pins as cartoskeuomorphs.

https://makingmaps.substack.com/p/map-pins-as-cartoskeuomorphs

This one a propos of some seminars on place, space, memory and memoir that I'm preparing for one of our Liberal Arts modules. If anyone has any relevant ideas, suggestions or resources in this rather wild topic, do let me know.

#space #place #culturalmemory #memoir #humanities

In the category rabbit-holes-I-definitely-won't-go-down-in: map pins as cartoskeuomorphs.

https://makingmaps.substack.com/p/map-pins-as-cartoskeuomorphs

This one a propos of some seminars on place, space, memory and memoir that I'm preparing for one of our Liberal Arts modules. If anyone has any relevant ideas, suggestions or resources in this rather wild topic, do let me know.

#space #place #culturalmemory #memoir #humanities

A soldier planned a coup. It failed fast. Then prison walls closed in for years. This is a true story, not fiction.
#books #bookreview #truecrime #memoir
https://smpl.is/am521

A soldier planned a coup. It failed fast. Then prison walls closed in for years. This is a true story, not fiction.
#books #bookreview #truecrime #memoir
https://smpl.is/am521

The Journey Begins (Managing the Bucket List 2) by Carol McIlwain, PHD

An inspiring reminder that the greatest souvenirs from travel are the insights we bring home
The post The Journey Begins (Managing the Bucket List 2) by Carol McIlwain, PHD appeared first on Independent Book Review.
https://independentbookreview.com/2026/08/12/the-journey-begins-managing-the-bucket-list-2-by-carol-mcilwain-phd/

#bookreview #JoleneMcIlwain #memoir #Nonfiction #TheJourneyBegins

The Journey Begins (Managing the Bucket List 2) by Carol McIlwain, PHD

An inspiring reminder that the greatest souvenirs from travel are the insights we bring home
The post The Journey Begins (Managing the Bucket List 2) by Carol McIlwain, PHD appeared first on Independent Book Review.
https://independentbookreview.com/2026/08/12/the-journey-begins-managing-the-bucket-list-2-by-carol-mcilwain-phd/

#bookreview #JoleneMcIlwain #memoir #Nonfiction #TheJourneyBegins

The Journey Begins (Managing the Bucket List 2) by Jolene McIlwain, PHD

An inspiring reminder that the greatest souvenirs from travel are the insights we bring home
The post The Journey Begins (Managing the Bucket List 2) by Jolene McIlwain, PHD appeared first on Independent Book Review.
https://independentbookreview.com/2026/08/12/the-journey-begins-managing-the-bucket-list-2-by-jolene-mcilwain-phd/

#bookreview #JoleneMcIlwain #memoir #Nonfiction #TheJourneyBegins

The Journey Begins (Managing the Bucket List 2) by Jolene McIlwain, PHD

An inspiring reminder that the greatest souvenirs from travel are the insights we bring home
The post The Journey Begins (Managing the Bucket List 2) by Jolene McIlwain, PHD appeared first on Independent Book Review.
https://independentbookreview.com/2026/08/12/the-journey-begins-managing-the-bucket-list-2-by-jolene-mcilwain-phd/

#bookreview #JoleneMcIlwain #memoir #Nonfiction #TheJourneyBegins

1988: I co-founded a games studio and named it after my cat. I sold the BBC Micro dev system I'd used to develop all the Odin ZX Spectrum games and, with the proceeds, took a break in Spain. There, I visited the Dalí Theatre-Museum. I also gave myself a mild case of sunstroke and, delirious, demanded that my girlfriend tell me Thomas the Tank Engine stories.

By Christmas, somehow, we'd signed with Electronic Arts.

New chapter of the memoir, out Sunday. Subscribe for free to get it in your inbox!

https://stevewetherill.substack.com/p/chapter-13-the-computer-the-costa-brava-the-contract

#Memoir #GameDevelopment #RetroGaming

1988: I co-founded a games studio and named it after my cat. I sold the BBC Micro dev system I'd used to develop all the Odin ZX Spectrum games and, with the proceeds, took a break in Spain. There, I visited the Dalí Theatre-Museum. I also gave myself a mild case of sunstroke and, delirious, demanded that my girlfriend tell me Thomas the Tank Engine stories.

By Christmas, somehow, we'd signed with Electronic Arts.

New chapter of the memoir, out Sunday. Subscribe for free to get it in your inbox!

https://stevewetherill.substack.com/p/chapter-13-the-computer-the-costa-brava-the-contract

#Memoir #GameDevelopment #RetroGaming

It Happened. Make of It What You Will by Joanna Potepa

An atmospheric, genre-bending memoir that transforms life’s smallest detours into profound moments of revelation.
The post It Happened. Make of It What You Will by Joanna Potepa appeared first on Independent Book Review.
https://independentbookreview.com/2026/08/10/it-happened-make-of-it-what-you-will-by-joanna-potepa/

#bookreview #indieauthor #Ithappenedmakeofitwhatyouwill #JoannaPotepa #memoir

It Happened. Make of It What You Will by Joanna Potepa

An atmospheric, genre-bending memoir that transforms life’s smallest detours into profound moments of revelation.
The post It Happened. Make of It What You Will by Joanna Potepa appeared first on Independent Book Review.
https://independentbookreview.com/2026/08/10/it-happened-make-of-it-what-you-will-by-joanna-potepa/

#bookreview #indieauthor #Ithappenedmakeofitwhatyouwill #JoannaPotepa #memoir

Part memoir/part spiritual odyssey, "You Were Chosen, Just Like Mary: A True Story of Love and Faith" offers readers the chance to see the unseen and to believe the unbelievable. "A beautiful and inspiring book!"
#nonfiction #memoir #faith #books
https://www.amazon.com/Were-Chosen-Just-Like-Mary-ebook/dp/B0FH33RNRL/

Agrarian

https://haikudread.net/2026/08/09/agrarian/

Agrarian

https://haikudread.net/2026/08/09/agrarian/

New on my blog: Library, an adventure

https://sylvia.studio/library-an-adventure
#Blaugust #Memoir #Reading

New on my blog: Library, an adventure

https://sylvia.studio/library-an-adventure
#Blaugust #Memoir #Reading

New on my blog: Library, an adventure

https://sylvia.studio/library-an-adventure

#Blaugust #Memoir #Reading

New on my blog: Library, an adventure

https://sylvia.studio/library-an-adventure

#Blaugust #Memoir #Reading

5 Tips for Writing a Rom-Com… About Ending Up With Yourself

Author Traci Saulsberry shares five tips for writing a different type of rom-com, one in which you end up with yourself.
The post 5 Tips for Writing a Rom-Com… About Ending Up With Yourself appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/5-tips-for-writing-a-rom-com-about-ending-up-with-yourself

#Memoir #PersonalWriting #WriteBetterNonfiction #memoir #Romcoms

5 Tips for Writing a Rom-Com… About Ending Up With Yourself

Author Traci Saulsberry shares five tips for writing a different type of rom-com, one in which you end up with yourself.
The post 5 Tips for Writing a Rom-Com… About Ending Up With Yourself appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/5-tips-for-writing-a-rom-com-about-ending-up-with-yourself

#Memoir #PersonalWriting #WriteBetterNonfiction #memoir #Romcoms

Five stars:

The Soul Man: Life of Songwriter David Porter by David Porter (2026) is a memoir about growing up in Memphis and making music at Trax. For the audiobook, David Porter does his own narration and includes snippets of the music he's written and performed over the years.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/soul_man.html

#bookstodon #memoir #audiobook #nonfiction #musicHistory

@bookstodon

Five stars:

The Soul Man: Life of Songwriter David Porter by David Porter (2026) is a memoir about growing up in Memphis and making music at Trax. For the audiobook, David Porter does his own narration and includes snippets of the music he's written and performed over the years.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/soul_man.html

#bookstodon #memoir #audiobook #nonfiction #musicHistory

@bookstodon

I'm always so happy when sales of Volume 4 of my translation of Mogador's memoirs show up in the monthly report. That means people are making their way through the entire series! It does have a satisfying ending.

I built a simple little website to make it as easy as possible for folks to buy from decent sources:

https://mogadormemoirs.com/

#translation #books #bookstodon #memoir

I'm always so happy when sales of Volume 4 of my translation of Mogador's memoirs show up in the monthly report. That means people are making their way through the entire series! It does have a satisfying ending.

I built a simple little website to make it as easy as possible for folks to buy from decent sources:

https://mogadormemoirs.com/

#translation #books #bookstodon #memoir

https://books2read.com/u/mV9qar
#books #memoir #best
best book for you must read

https://books2read.com/u/mV9qar
#books #memoir #best
best book for you must read

Thirty one years ago, I was a mixed race kid from Australia living in post Communist Poland.

In the summer of 1995, I went on a school trip with my Year 2 class.

I have no photos from the trip, only fragments of memories.

Reflecting on those memories through the eyes of an adult, I've done my best to reconstruct them into a retelling.

This is my report.

https://paulbrzeski.com/2026/08/04/if-you-immediately-know-the-candlelight-is-fire/

#memoir #childhoodmemories #schooltrip #poland #nostalgia

An abusive marriage and a life-time struggle with dyslexia left Ellen Busch feeling powerless. Until she turned it around. "This book will inspire many who have been knocked down to stand up for themselves and achieve a life less ordinary, one that is outright extraordinary."
#nonfiction #memoir #LearningDisability #books
https://www.amazon.com/dis-Empowered-Academic-Sentence-Adventure-ebook/dp/B0BZ5PG9NY/

FEMININE MALE OUTFITS

For years, I believed becoming a man meant hiding my femininity. This is a personal reflection on identity, authenticity, and embracing every part of myself.

🔗 Link below
https://medium.com/@dianabasieseme_60028/feminine-male-outfits-8944bac7bd0c?sk=b9c5fc87fb7a907c729cf13f851f6ece

🎨 AI-generated visual.

#Writing #Medium #SelfDiscovery #Authenticity #GenderExpression #Memoir

FEMININE MALE OUTFITS

For years, I believed becoming a man meant hiding my femininity. This is a personal reflection on identity, authenticity, and embracing every part of myself.

🔗 Link below
https://medium.com/@dianabasieseme_60028/feminine-male-outfits-8944bac7bd0c?sk=b9c5fc87fb7a907c729cf13f851f6ece

🎨 AI-generated visual.

#Writing #Medium #SelfDiscovery #Authenticity #GenderExpression #Memoir

Autobiography of an Argentine Abroad
Category: Memoir / Non-Fiction
The unvarnished, clinical reality of rootlessness and permanent exile.

#Bookstodon #Memoir #Expat #Reading

Autobiography of an Argentine Abroad
Category: Memoir / Non-Fiction
The unvarnished, clinical reality of rootlessness and permanent exile.

#Bookstodon #Memoir #Expat #Reading

Liverpool, 1988. Skint, overworked, and about to be fired.

Chapter 12 of my serialized memoir is now live and free for everyone: my brief, chaotic stint at Denton Designs, three games at once, a lost cat, and the company I founded from the wreckage.

https://stevewetherill.substack.com/p/chapter-12-the-confrontation-and-the-cat

This photo was taken at the Pumphouse pub in the Albert Dock by a certain Elsbeth Jones. Over my right shoulder is St John's Beacon; over my left, Canning Place, still standing in 1988. It would be razed in the years that followed to make way for the Liverpool Hilton, which, to my eye, looks like a slightly serpentine version of the brutalist buildings it replaced.

#RetroGaming #GameDevelopment #ZXSpectrum #Memoir

Liverpool, 1988. Skint, overworked, and about to be fired.

Chapter 12 of my serialized memoir is now live and free for everyone: my brief, chaotic stint at Denton Designs, three games at once, a lost cat, and the company I founded from the wreckage.

https://stevewetherill.substack.com/p/chapter-12-the-confrontation-and-the-cat

This photo was taken at the Pumphouse pub in the Albert Dock by a certain Elsbeth Jones. Over my right shoulder is St John's Beacon; over my left, Canning Place, still standing in 1988. It would be razed in the years that followed to make way for the Liverpool Hilton, which, to my eye, looks like a slightly serpentine version of the brutalist buildings it replaced.

#RetroGaming #GameDevelopment #ZXSpectrum #Memoir

My mother published her memoir recently. It was a project she started in her 50s, completed in her 80s. She was born on the farm in a small Mennonite settlement on Vancouver Island in the 1930s. She retired as an RN in Kamloops in the 2000s.
I’m proud of her, for lots of reasons. I think her book is fab. Check it out at https://bit.ly/cominghome_emeyer

ps. She’s included a number of recipes from her pioneer childhood

Pps. I’d love to hear from you when you read it!

#books #writing #reading #VancouverIsland #canada #memoir #womenshistory #recipes

My mother published her memoir recently. It was a project she started in her 50s, completed in her 80s. She was born on the farm in a small Mennonite settlement on Vancouver Island in the 1930s. She retired as an RN in Kamloops in the 2000s.
I’m proud of her, for lots of reasons. I think her book is fab. Check it out at https://bit.ly/cominghome_emeyer

ps. She’s included a number of recipes from her pioneer childhood

Pps. I’d love to hear from you when you read it!

#books #writing #reading #VancouverIsland #canada #memoir #womenshistory #recipes

A review of the first volume of the post-War British Comedian Spike Milligan’s WWII memoirs. Incredibly funny, but also the brilliant story of a citizen soldier in a citizen army.

Note: the content of this video has been shaped by a need to avoid triggering TikTok’s AI-driven moderation into falsely flagging it as “promoting extremist propaganda”. #comedy #memoir #ww2 https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8eToQ3L/

A review of the first volume of the post-War British Comedian Spike Milligan’s WWII memoirs. Incredibly funny, but also the brilliant story of a citizen soldier in a citizen army.

Note: the content of this video has been shaped by a need to avoid triggering TikTok’s AI-driven moderation into falsely flagging it as “promoting extremist propaganda”. #comedy #memoir #ww2 https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8eToQ3L/

Four stars:

Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool by Clara Parkes (2019) is a written account of a crowd funded venture to turn a 676 pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn. The project was jokingly called "The Great White Bale" is presented as a series of chapters, each one being one of the stops she made.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_07/vanishing_fleece.html

#nonfiction #sheep #memoir #bookstodon
@bookstodon

Four stars:

Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool by Clara Parkes (2019) is a written account of a crowd funded venture to turn a 676 pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn. The project was jokingly called "The Great White Bale" is presented as a series of chapters, each one being one of the stops she made.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_07/vanishing_fleece.html

#nonfiction #sheep #memoir #bookstodon
@bookstodon

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Eddie Huang grew up Taiwanese American in Orlando with two worlds that never fit together. He wrote it all down — raw and unfiltered.
#books #bookreview #FreshOffTheBoat #memoir
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/fresh-off-the-boat-book-review/

Eddie Huang grew up Taiwanese American in Orlando with two worlds that never fit together. He wrote it all down — raw and unfiltered.
#books #bookreview #FreshOffTheBoat #memoir
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/fresh-off-the-boat-book-review/

Finally reading Small Fry - A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs. I bought it on Apple Books when it was published in 2019 in the UK.

https://books.apple.com/book/id1391169676

#Books #Memoir #History #Apple

Secret, Lies, and the Family Ghost is my new substack. In my latest post I talk about the secret that haunts my family, and the generational decision that got them there. #memoir #substack

https://emilystmarie.substack.com/p/volga-german-pioneers