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Shill me some books! Looking for great biographies/memoirs
1091 sats \ 12 comments \ @Signal312 10h BooksAndArticles
Or really, anything really absorbing.
Here's a few I'll throw out there - not my absolute favorites, but these are some biographies/memoirs I really enjoyed recently.
My Several Worlds: A Personal Record by Peral Buck, author of The Good Earth, Pulizer prize winner in 1932. She grew up in China, the child of missionaries). The Curve Of Time By M. Wylie Blanchet. A widow with 6 children in a small boat, spending summers traveling in the inland waterways of British Columbia in the 1930's and 1940's. Gripping stories.
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22 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 10h
@denlillaapan mentioned this memoir in passing- "Troubled" by Rob Henderson.
I read it and really enjoyed it. Talk about overcoming adversity. I found it inspiring. Henderson is a good writer.
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 7h
he's freaking excellent! been impressed by his work for quite some time
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68 sats \ 1 reply \ @TotallyHumanWriter 4h
'As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning' documents Laurie Lee's walk through 1930s Spain.
Spiffingly good. Sort of beatnik before beatniks.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 OP 3h
Wow...you and I are on the same wavelength. I just read this one. Very interesting. I also read his memoirs on his experiences in the Spanish Civil War (A Moment of War). Fascinating.
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68 sats \ 0 replies \ @SqNr65 5h
A Personal Odyssey by Thomas Sowell
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34 sats \ 1 reply \ @jbschirtzinger 7h
The Splendid and The Vile was good: https://booklight.top/posts/2023-07-20-splendidvile
Pertwee's is also good: https://booklight.top/posts/2024-11-20-moonboots
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 OP 6h
Both of these sound very interesting - I'll have to check them out!
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34 sats \ 0 replies \ @rootmachine 7h
Do ghostwritten count? Open - Andre Agassi, Spare - Harry. Both are deep and relatively emotional.
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34 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 9h
The Autobiography of Malcolm X with Alex Haley
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45 sats \ 0 replies \ @teemupleb 10h
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s memoir “Total Recall”.
Lot of main character energy in that book and puts the reader in an achiever mode
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 9h
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl - Carrie Brownstein.
She's Sleater-Kinney, she's Portlandia. She's punk, she's culture. She's cool.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @unschooled 10h
Be Here Now by Ram Das has a nice little memoir, art, illustrations, reflections and absorbing life advice on living mindfully.
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