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  1. Still reeling from Dolly Parton, we're mourning another great loss: Tim Curry who gave his face & voice to so many great roles
    If you want to honour his life by learning more about his achievements, check out his #memoir "Vagabond" here: opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=

    #autobiography #memoirs #TimCurry

  2. AN EXTRAORDINARY WORK OF MEMOIR: a writer's unflinching examination of her childhood sexual abuse by her stepfather, who (unusually) faced legal consequences. Broader connections to literature and history add dimension. SOLID A

    bookshop.org/p/books/sad-tiger

    @bookstodon

    #book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #nonfiction #memoir #memoirs #sexualabuse #childabuse #psychology #literature #France #Frenchwriters #SmallPressSunday

  3. Gemma Correll’s Anxietyland: a graphic anxiety memoir

    Popular and hilarious web cartoonist and illustrator Gemma Correll has just released a new graphic novel about her…
    #NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #Anxiety #AU #Australia #Books #Cartoonists #Cartoons #Comics #depression #graphicnovels #Health #memoirs #MentalHealth
    newsbeep.com/au/637595/

  4. CANDID FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNTS from LGBTQAI2S people who experienced conversion “therapy” are infuriating, heartbreaking, sometimes witty, always inspiring. Thoughtfully curated and respectfully presented, this is an important collection.

    us.jkp.com/products/shamesex-a

    @bookstodon

    #book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #nonfiction #essays #memoir #memoirs #lgbtqai2s #lgbtq #SmallPressSunday

    (no letter grade; that felt inappropriate for a collection of such personal work)

  5. UNSPARINGLY CANDID, THOUGHTFUL memoir offers a kaleidoscopic look at the pain and soul-searching a writer experiences from her mother’s weaponized “silent treatment.” Multivocal, poetic narrative is powerfully on point. B PLUS

    tinhouse.com/book/a-silent-tre

    @bookstodon

    #book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #nonfiction #memoir #memoirs #mentalhealth #mentalillness #mothersanddaughters #SmallPressSunday

  6. FEARLESS, POETIC MEMOIR from a Cree, Salish, and Métis writer tells the story not only of her own traumatic family history, but of the brutal generational oppressions that cast painful shadows in too many Indigenous lives. B PLUS

    houseofanansi.com/collections/

    @bookstodon

    #book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #nonfiction #memoir #memoirs #culturalhistory #indigenous #indigenoushistory #cree #métis #salish #nêhiyaw #nativehistory #SmallPressSunday

  7. 'We usually understand “divide and rule” as a tactic for dividing populations, preventing them from unifying to overthrow the colonial power. But “divide and rule” also divides people from their own pasts.'

    Samuel Hayim Brody reviews #TheJewelersOfTheUmmah, #ThreeWorlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew, and #WhenWeWereArabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

    bostonreview.net/articles/in-s

    #ArabJews #JewishHistory #MENA #MiddleEast #MizrahiJews #SephardicJews #Palestine #books #memoirs @bookstodon

  8. 'We usually understand “divide and rule” as a tactic for dividing populations, preventing them from unifying to overthrow the colonial power. But “divide and rule” also divides people from their own pasts.'

    Samuel Hayim Brody reviews #TheJewelersOfTheUmmah, #ThreeWorlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew, and #WhenWeWereArabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

    bostonreview.net/articles/in-s

    #ArabJews #JewishHistory #MENA #MiddleEast #MizrahiJews #SephardicJews #Palestine #books #memoirs @bookstodon

  9. 'We usually understand “divide and rule” as a tactic for dividing populations, preventing them from unifying to overthrow the colonial power. But “divide and rule” also divides people from their own pasts.'

    Samuel Hayim Brody reviews #TheJewelersOfTheUmmah, #ThreeWorlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew, and #WhenWeWereArabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

    bostonreview.net/articles/in-s

    #ArabJews #JewishHistory #MENA #MiddleEast #MizrahiJews #SephardicJews #Palestine #books #memoirs @bookstodon

  10. 'We usually understand “divide and rule” as a tactic for dividing populations, preventing them from unifying to overthrow the colonial power. But “divide and rule” also divides people from their own pasts.'

    Samuel Hayim Brody reviews #TheJewelersOfTheUmmah, #ThreeWorlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew, and #WhenWeWereArabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

    bostonreview.net/articles/in-s

    #ArabJews #JewishHistory #MENA #MiddleEast #MizrahiJews #SephardicJews #Palestine #books #memoirs @bookstodon

  11. Terry Tempest Williams offers an intimate portrait of national parks in her memoir The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks. She guides readers on a reverential tour of parks, revealing the meanings these places have etched in her memory and experience. Family, beauty, creativity, a care for land all rank highly in the values she finds in national parks.

    #BooksWorthReading #memoirs #NationalParks #TerryTempestWilliams #Mormons #Mormonism