Tag: Memoir
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Reading Diary: February – May 2022
It has been a while since I posted here, or was able to write anything. I was ill on and off from December through to the start of April, but finally managed to get myself sorted out with a visit to the doctor and a sort-of diagnosis in the form of the fact that my […]
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House of Glass by Hadley Freeman (2020)
Let me preface this review by saying that I have not written a book review, or any blog post, for months now so please bear with me… in June I went back to work after maternity leave, but due to lockdown my little one’s nursery was not open at the time and so my husband […]
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I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron (2006)
I honestly don’t know why it’s taken me so long to read any of Nora Ephron’s books. I adore her movies, particularly When Harry Met Sally, and I’d always heard her books were just as good. Perhaps I was afraid they wouldn’t be and my reverence of her script writing would be ruined. But then […]
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Stet: An Editor’s Life by Diana Athill (2000)
For whatever reason this book had been sitting on my shelves since at least January, as I received it as a Christmas/birthday present (they are only ten days apart so I forget which this was for), but luckily I had a book audit a few weeks ago and came upon it again. I had started […]
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Catching up on reviews…
I don’t often do multiple reviews in one post, but, as I mentioned here, I am a bit behind with reviews, including a couple of books I read several months ago, so this time around it’s easier to put a few together in one post. Let me know what you think! Little by Edward Carey […]
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No Place to Lay One’s Head by Françoise Frenkel (1945), trans. Stephanie Smee
I came across Bookish Beck’s review of No Place to Lay One’s Head last month and knew I just had to read it. It is the memoir of Françoise Frenkel, a Jewish woman from Poland who opened the first French-language bookshop in Berlin, in 1921. She had studied in France, and when on a visit […]
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This Will Only Hurt A Little by Busy Philipps (2018)
Like many people, I was aware of, and liked, Busy Philipps from her various TV shows and movies, and my liking of her only grew when I followed her on Instagram and witnessed the joy and brilliance of her Stories on the app. I love that she is honest and frank on Instagram, and shows […]
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The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson (2007)
I came across The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial in my GoodReads recommendations, and thought it seemed almost like the perfect book for me – a memoir about family history, women, and crime. The crime element particularly appealed to me as the book details Maggie Nelson’s experience of the trial of the man of may […]
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Half-year review: best books of 2018 so far!
I’m back! As you may have seen on my Instagram, I was recently on holiday (again) and so everything was a bit quiet… but I’m now back and ready to get back into blogging. I am right at the end of Emma by Jane Austen, so I will be writing about that soon, as well […]
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