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Memoir Book Review: Wheels of Change by Sue Macy

by Matilda Butler on March 2, 2011

catnav-book-raves-active-3Post #80 – Women’s Memoirs, Book & Video Raves – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler

Welcome to Day Two of Women’s History Month. To honor women this month, Kendra and I have planned a few different blog posts, ones that step outside our usual content. We will even be announcing a special offer later in the month.

Memoir of the Bicycle

Although the majority of the books we review on Women’s Memoirs are memoirs, we occasionally mention other books that are relevant. As part of our honoring Women’s History Month, I choose to review [click to continue…]

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Book Review: Molly Peacock’s Paradise, Piece by Piece

by Matilda ButlerSeptember 8, 2010
Book Review: Molly Peacock’s Paradise, Piece by Piece

For those of us who are not poets, reading Molly Peacock’s memoir Paradise: Piece by Piece may be as close as we come to seeing a poet’s take on her life. Beautifully written. We’ve shared some of her sentences with you to give you a flavor of poetry in prose.

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Book Review: Memoir Star by Erika Karres and Susan Bowman

by Matilda ButlerAugust 18, 2010
Book Review: Memoir Star by Erika Karres and Susan Bowman

If you are in the early stages of working on your memoir, even just now getting started, you’ll be interested in Memoir Star by Erika Karres and Susan Bowman.

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Book Review of Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis by Amy Ferris

by Kendra BonnettApril 7, 2010
Book Review of Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis by Amy Ferris

In her memoir Marrying George Clooney, Amy Ferris comes to a point of peace and understanding about her relationship with her mother. Ferris finds the humor in life as she deals with raging hormones, in the full throes of menopause, and her 88-year-old mother disappears into dementia. The result is a bittersweet, often raw and outrageously candid, look at mothers and daughters.

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Memoir Book Review–Your Memoirs by Hawley Roddick

by Kendra BonnettJanuary 20, 2010
Memoir Book Review–Your Memoirs by Hawley Roddick

Here’s a memoir writing how-to that will focus your thinking, entertain with examples and help you limber up your style and technique. Think of “Your Memoirs” by Hawley Roddick as mental calisthenics.

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Memoir Book Review – Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

by Michelle RockwellJanuary 13, 2010
Memoir Book Review – Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Book Review: Regular guest blogger Michelle Rockwell reviews Three Little Words, Ashley Rhodes Courter’s memoir about a foster care system that places more emphasis on foster and less on care than is necessary for young children to thrive.

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Memoir Book Review – Don’t Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment

by Matilda ButlerDecember 1, 2009
Memoir Book Review – Don’t Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment

Author Linda Joy Myers’ memoir is a joy to read, filled with imagery. Wondering how to handle voice and tense? There are lessons in her memoir.

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