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| Tue, 06-28-2005 - 7:09am |
let's talk aboout biographies today. What have been some of your favorites and are there any in your TBR pile right now?
I just picked up Brooke Shields' "Down Came the Rain" and am looking forward to it


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~Jackie, BookCrossing Member & Warming Families Volunteer
<A Boy Called It by Dave Pelzer is the last non-fiction book I have read.
I read lots of biography, mostly of female historical figures. One really good one is Harriet Jacobs: A Life by Jean Yellin. Jacobs was a slave who ran away from a master who was trying to sexually abuse her. Another good one is American Jezebel by Eve LaPlante. It's about the Puritan woman Anne Hutchinson who so disrupted the community with civil and religious heresies that she was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony.
I read some memoirs and autobiographies, too, but not of famous people. Adele Crockett Robertson tells a beautiful story, for example, of trying to save her family's apple orchard during the Depression. Her memoir is called The Orchard.
TK
MissTK
Hi Maggie,
Two books that I read this year I really liked! "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey. It was the story of an alcoholic, really interesting. "Under and Alone" by William Queen. He was an ATF agent who infiltrated "The Mongol Motorcycle Club". I have no interest in MC but thoroughly enjoyed the book, good read! Sue
One of my favorite's was a biography of Audrey Hepburn written in the early 90s by Diana Maychick. I had always enjoyed and respected Ms. Hepburn's work, in and out of the movie industry. But after reading what she endured during WW II - starvation, working for the Resistance is just a couple - it truly opened my eyes as to why she took up the causes she did, especially for UNICEF. During the war, she took up smoking to help relieve stress and unfortunately was the cause of her early death. But what a legacy!
Donna
I recently listened to the audiobook of Truman by David McCullough. It was magnificent and I highly recommend it. I also enjoy memoirs. One which was particularly powerful was First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung (sp?) about the authors time as a young girl in Cambodia during Pol Pot's regime. Excellent book.
scrappy
~Jackie, BookCrossing Member & Warming Families Volunteer
<I've read quite a few - I enjoyed the ones I read about Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Bugsy's Girl (about mobster Bugsy Siegel,) & one called Nina's Journey, about a young girl growing up in Russia during the Stalin era
I've been on vacation, babysitting the grand poopies, and just been incredibly busy lately!!
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