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The Part That Burns
What do you remember? What do you choose to forget? Author Jeannine Ouellette describes The Part That Burns as “a memoir in fragments.” That’s an accurate assessment of the way memory works. (Think back on your own childhood. Do you remember the scenes that had an emotional impact […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography, Nonfiction
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Tags: Family relations, Good Books, Review of the Month
Recent Reviews
Memoir and Autobiography
Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go
“I knew life would continue with ups and downs…..But for now, I felt free.” Laurie James wrote a candid, heartfelt, and revealing memoir. Sandwiched: A Memoir of Holding On and Letting Go catalogs her long quest to belong and chronicles her battles with a tempestuous marriage and elder […]
Odyssey of Ashes
Cheryl Krauter’s latest memoir, Odyssey of Ashes, is both a moving tribute to her late husband John and the celebration of an emergent woman who finds herself “being carried on great winds across the sky” in a cradle of intermittent sorrow and enlightenment. Krauter’s background in sciences related […]
Nonfiction
Dignity in Death: Accepting, Assisting, and Preparing for the End of Life
Dignity in Death is an essential guidebook, full of necessary facts, though not the kind of information we relish thinking or talking about. That’s probably why so many leave this world without having put their house in order. Barbara Frandsen makes a good case for preparing for the […]
