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How about Lucy Grealy's memoir, Autobiography of a Face? That was harrowing to read, but extremely well-written.
I'm reading My Life in France by Julie Child. It's surprisingly wonderful. I'd be done with it, but our local PBS station was showing old shows of hers this weekend, and I got distracted. What a character!
I read it years ago, I recall that Liar's Club seemed the better of the two. She has another one out "Lit" that I just heard her speak about on NPR...another to go on the to-read list!
The Year of Magical Thinking is a book I've returned to many times, opening it to any page and reading.
I also loved Mary Karr's Liar's Club. Didn't read the sequel..Cherry - I think that's the title. Has anyone read it? And?
Annie Dillard's early non-fiction, in particular Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Teaching a Stone to Talk, are favorites of mine. I always enjoying reading pieces by Claudie Roth Pierpont in the New Yorker and she put out a very good book some years back called Passionate Minds: Women Writing the World -- portraits of 10 extraordinary women. Highly recommend it.
I have Didion on my list too! That book has been sitting on my shelf for quite some time and maybe now is the time to raise it up on my TBR list.
"The Year of Magical Thinking" is on my list for sure.Another beautifully written memoir is "Daybook: The Journey of an Artist" by the sculptor Anne Truitt. A sensitive artist's perspective.
From the Novel thread: >"The Year of Magical Thinking" is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read.
>I listened to this one on audio. Heard the end while waiting in the school parking lot for cross country team to return from a meet - just weeping and weeping there at my steering wheel. To this day, I wonder what the other waiting parents must have thought. Really, really a beautiful book. Indeed, I'm putting it on the list for my book club.
Thank you for sharing this Amy! It sounds like a wonderful book. I'm always looking for reads that have been given as gifts like that.
I absolutely loved Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach. Fabulous opportunity to accompany Alice on her journey throughout Europe. Gave this as a gift to my four sisters and mom a couple of years ago. Enjoy!
How could I forget: A Pig in Provence Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France by Georgeanne Brennan, Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes (and any of her others!), Traveling with Pomegranates A Mother-Daughter Story by Sue Monk Kidd.
Off the top of my head: Trail of Crumbs Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home by Kim Sunée, The Late Bloomer's Revolution by Amy Cohen, Comfort A Journey Through Grief by Ann Hood.
I just startedThe Man Who Loved Books Too Much The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett. Very good so far!
Hmm well currently I'm reading Me & The River by Carrie Host which is amazing. It's a memoir of surviving cancer and it's written very poetically. I'm going to have to find my own copy.
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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (other topics)The Glass Castle (other topics)
Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home (other topics)
Comfort: A Journey Through Grief (other topics)
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Ann Hood (other topics)Kim Sunée (other topics)
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