#memoir

2025-06-19

A BRILLIANTLY CANDID MEMOIR from author Bernice McFadden shines the light of generations of family history on her own life and choices, especially on the distinctive challenges of being a Black woman in the US. Clear-eyed and compassionate. B PLUS

barnesandnoble.com/w/firstborn

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#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #nonfiction #memoir #memoirs #Blackwomenwriters #BlackHistory #feminism #womanism

TSL PublicationsTSLbooks
2025-06-18
2025-06-17

June 2025
# 104

BONO: STORIES OF SURRENDER
dir Andrew Dominik, 2025

The gift of the gab.

#music #memoir #performance #documentary #family #rockandroll #ireland #u2

Steve Dustcircle 🌹dustcircle@masto.ai
2025-06-16

Barbara Damrosch’s Life in the #Garden

The acclaimed garden #writer’s latest #book is part #memoir, part #gardenguide and part #calltoaction

barnraisingmedia.com/barbara-d

2025-06-16

I grew up in #Florida, which was one of the campest places to grow up in the mid-20th century. I’ve learnt to appreciate many of the struggles I’ve experienced as a gay man come from being camp. I was #gay from the get-go, but I often tried to hide myself.
medium.com/prismnpen/growing-u

#LGBTQ #GrowingUp #Memoir

earthlingappassionato
2025-06-16

A Field Guide to the Subterranean by Justin Hocking, 2025

A radically inventive excavation of one man’s life and our relationship to the earth by the critically acclaimed author of The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld.

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Justin Hocking grew up in a part of Colorado where so many things happened beneath the surface—mining exploits, underground nuclear testing just thirty miles from his family’s home, and geothermal activity that heats one of the world’s largest hot spring pools. His homelife, too, was plagued by hidden patterns of abuse and virulent masculinity. A Field Guide to the Subterranean charts the author’s lifelong process of unearthing the past and reclaiming his own identity and connection to the natural world.
How might we transform our traumas into deeper care for one another and the landscapes that sustain us? How do we transcend the mythos of the rugged American male so rooted in extraction and exploitation? And how far can we move beyond the self in a memoir?...
earthlingappassionato
2025-06-16

The Scientist Who Wasn't There: A True Story of Staggering Deception by Joanne Briggs, 2025

An astonishingly original memoir about truth, identity and the ethics of science.

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Renowned scientist Professor Michael Briggs was many things: A Space expert at NASA. An adviser to the World Health Organisation. A successful Big Pharma executive. But Michael Briggs had a secret. A scandal broke out in 1986 when research he conducted was revealed to be compromised. Patients were also claiming that a pregnancy test he pioneered had caused devastating birth defects. Soon after his fall from grace, Briggs was dead, struck down by a mystery illness in a foreign country. Briggs left behind a long list of publications, patents, and inventions. But he also left behind hundreds of people who believe they are victims of his negligence and who are still fighting for justice to this day. And he left someone else: his daughter, Joanne. After decades of wondering who her father really was, Joanne decided to investigate for herself. In hypnotic prose, she uncovers the secret that shaped her father's entire life and made his story more fantastic than any science fiction. As she discovered, Briggs's greatest invention was himself.
2025-06-15

In this article, I write how I structured my #Memoir to be able to write the book I'd always wanted to write. 'Women Writers, Women's Books,' is a fantastic resource for both #Readers and #Writers.

#WritingCommunity #Women

booksbywomen.org/structuring-a

2025-06-15

In issue #196, I try to reconcile my memories of being a Surf City tomboy with my parents’ view that I was a “delicate” and sickly kid. Also, urban “beach town“ sketching, artists and artist resources, and remembering JImi Hendrix and Brian Wilson. jeanvengua.substack.com/p/surf #newsletters #art #memoir #music #SantaCruz

Lydia Schochlydiaschoch
2025-06-14

I’ve been reading “The Friendship Bench: How Fourteen Grandmothers Inspired a Mental Health Revolution”by Dixon Chibanda MD this weekend and learning how her idea for Friendship Benches that she started in Zimbabwe have now helped half a million people and counting get mental health help worldwide.

If you like nonfiction about mental health, you might like this book.

@bookstodon

Book cover for “The Friendship Bench: How Fourteen Grandmothers Inspired a Mental Health Revolution”by Dixon Chibanda MD. Image on cover is a black and white drawing of a sapling or large bush behind an empty wooden bench.
Mark Tedesco, authorMarkTedesco@newsie.social
2025-06-12

Need an escape? Check out my latest novel, which will bring you all over the world.

Now on sale for $2.99: "Onward: A Life on a Sailboat"

a.co/d/3hhJkxE

#adventure #travel #biography #fiction #bookstodon #book #author #memoir

Angie ManginoAngieMangino@me.dm
2025-06-12

Digging into archives: Snakes, Snails, and Puppy Dog Tales by Caroline B. Poser (2010). This collection about raising three boys captures universal truths - honest about both chaos and joy without falling into "perfect" or "terrible" camps. Caroline recently found me on Medium, bringing wonderful memories flooding back. An oldie, but a goodie! #books #parenting #bookreview #memoir
medium.com/@AngieMangino/snake

Cosmos Cooperativecosmos@social.coop
2025-06-11

📚 The Integral Stage features Andrea van de Loo discussing "The Pressing Stones: The Healing Journey of a Nazi's Daughter."

Her memoir chronicles 80 years of transformation—from childhood trauma in WWII Netherlands to spiritual awakening in Auroville, India. Now 83, Andrea offers a powerful message about healing generational trauma and finding peace.

A deeply moving conversation about resilience, spirituality, and hope. 🎧

##Memoir #Healing #Spirituality #Books #Podcast
youtu.be/KcztaveUkQY?si=x6y98W

2025-06-11

Il racconto di un muro di Nasser Abu Srour

La prima parte del libro è dedicata alla storia dell’autore e a quella dei profughi palestinesi, ai vari accordi finiti nel nulla, alla vita in prigione. Si torna dunque alla Nakba del 1948, quando il padre dell’autore, scacciato dal suo villaggio, si stabilisce con la sua numerosa famiglia nel campo profughi di Aida, vicino a Betlemme. Divenuto adolescente al tempo della Prima Intifada, Nasser Abu Srour racconta come viene catturato, torturato, costretto a confessare, giudicato colpevole e condannato all’ergastolo. Inizia così il suo lungo viaggio nelle prigioni israeliane, dove sviluppa una sua strategia esistenziale di resistenza, stabilendo un centro di gravità con cui conversare alla fine di ogni giornata: il “Muro”, il muro della sua prigione. Attraverso questi dialoghi filosofici con il muro, l’autore documenta gli eventi politici che hanno portato alla frattura della società palestinese e alla sua resistenza. La seconda parte invece è dedicata alla sua storia d’amore con Nanna, la sua avvocatessa, una storia impossibile ma molto sentita. Su tutto domina la penna dell’autore, il profondo senso poetico delle sue parole che non svanisce neppure nelle descrizioni più dure della realtà politica e che vola nel parlare del sentimento amoroso.

Nasser Abu Srour è un uomo palestinese condannato all’ergastolo e detenuto in una prigione israeliana dal 1993, sembrerebbe in seguito a una confessione estorta con la tortura – il condizionale mi sembra d’obbligo solo perché non ho modo di sapere se la versione di Srour è stata verificata, anche se non faccio fatica a credergli dato lo stato disumano del sistema giudiziario israeliano.

Il racconto di un muro non è uno di quei libri su cui possa dire granché: cosa puoi dire di una testimonianza che sembra contenere tutto il dolore del mondo? È un libro che si legge con umiltà e rispetto, lasciando che il dolore dell’ingiustizia e dell’abuso ci attraversi e ci bruci. Perché questa non è solo la storia di Nasser Abu Srour: lui ha voluto anche essere il testimone di avvenimenti e fatti che travalicano la sua persona e si fanno storia collettiva di un popolo che dalla nakba del 1948 non ha avuto né pace né giustizia.

Non è il tipo di libro che consiglierei con leggerezza perché, sebbene pensi che sia più importante che mai vedere e riconoscere il dolore del popolo palestinese, allo stesso tempo se le notizie dalla Striscia di Gaza già vi fanno stare male, forse non è il caso di aggiungere anche Il racconto di un muro. Se già la condanna e l’ergastolo di Srour appaiono pretestuose, non vi dico quanto sia straziante leggerlo alla luce della guerra e del genocidio che hanno seguito l’attentato del 7 ottobre 2023: con quale logica dovremmo condannare e punire un intero popolo per qualcosa commesso da alcuni esponenti di un gruppo terroristico? Gruppo terroristico che – non dimentichiamolo – è nato nel terreno fertile della disumanizzazione costante portata avanti da Israele nei confronti deə palestinesə.

Nasser Abu Srour ci augura una lettura scomoda nel presentarci il suo libro. Di sicuro riesce molto bene a rappresentarci la privazione di libertà data dal carcere senza possibilità di una via d’uscita e dall’appartenete a un popolo al quale viene sistematicamente negata non solo la possibilità all’autodeterminazione, ma anche il mero diritto a esistere.

#autobiografia #carcere #memoir #nonFiction

Etichetta della categoria recensioni: raffigura una libreria con un filtro arcobaleno e la scritta Recensioni.DivisoreValutazione del libro: quattro stelline gialle
2025-06-11

I went home again, back to where I once belonged, and wrote about what it means to paddle the river channel where I learned to love the outdoors and being on the water.

#memoir #memories #kayaking #paddling #kayak #upstateNY #UpstateNewYork #PersonalHistory

mynonurbanlife.com/going-back-

A brilliant, cloud-streaked sky over a wide expanse of river. An island with cottonwood trees is on the left - in the midground is a bridge across the river, underneath which a kayaker is headed.
James H. MayfieldJHMayfield
2025-06-10

📖Life doesn’t come with a manual—but it sure comes with a pendulum.

Everything Equals Zero: Swinging Back to Center: A Regular Guy’s Guide to Life’s Pendulum, by Francois Pigeon

Free until June 12th!

amazon.com/dp/B0FCCNB5LV

Free Kindle Ebook - Everything Equals Zero: Swinging Back to Center: A Regular Guy’s Guide to Life’s Pendulum, by Francois Pigeon
earthlingappassionato
2025-06-09

Free Ride: Heartbreak, Courage, and The 20,000-Mile Motorcycle Journey That Changed My Life by Noraly Schoenmaker, 2025

The inspiring account of a young woman who, in a moment of personal crisis, embarked on an epic, transcontinental motorcycle ride—and along the way found a new sense of purpose.

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Noraly Schoenmaker was a thirtysomething geologist living in the Netherlands when she learned that her live-in partner had been having a long-term affair. In desperate need of a new beginning, she decided to quit her job and jet off to India. But her plans were dashed when she fell quickly and helplessly in love: with a motorcycle. Behind the handlebars, she felt alive and free—nimble enough to trace the narrowest paths, powerful enough to travel the longest of roads.

First, she set off toward the Pacific, through the jungles of Myanmar and Thailand, then into Malaysia. Rather than satisfy her appetite for the open road, this ride only piqued it. She shipped her bike to Oman, at the base of the Arabian Peninsula,...
2025-06-08

sadlerswells.com/whats-on/benj

At the end of last night's show at #saddlerswells, Benji Reid said Find Your Eyes won’t be performed again in the UK. But if it is don’t miss it. It’s stunning. A completely unique #afrofuturist fusion of #photography, #choreography, #theatre, #dance, #music, #fashion, #design, #mime.

You might want to take what Reid himself says about it with a pinch of salt. In keeping with the current obsession with #memoir and #biography — the idea of ‘telling my story’ in ways that explore ‘universal themes’ and speak ‘to a wider audience’ (see his 2021 Laugh at Gravity publication for the #octobergallery) — he presents the work in terms that make it appear far more conventional and less imaginative than it really is. Reid is one of those #artists who may not be the best at writing about their own work. (Marina Abramović is another.) Just go and experience it.

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