Post #36 – Women’s Memoirs, News – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett
Today is my regular blog on Story Circle Network’s Telling HerStories. For a little twist on my theme of Opening Salvos, I put the openings to nine memoirs in that blog and at the bottom of these, I listed nine titles with their authors. However, I put them in a different order.
If you haven’t read the other blog, here’s the link. See if you can match the memoir openings with the titles. Then return here to check the result.
If you’ve come from the Story Circle Network site, I’ve put the answers below.
How did you do? Be sure to look at and consider the other questions I asked in that blog. It may seem too soon to be thinking about your book title and your opening. However, it is good to at least know that those issues are on the back burner because then when the day comes and you need to decide on them, you mind will already have been at work on finding the right answer for you.
ANSWERS TO THE MEMOIR QUIZ
2-(a) Sleeping with Cats: A Memoir by Marge Piercy (This is the beginning of Chapter 2 as Chapter 1 focuses on memory.)
4-(b) Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig.
6-(c) A Match to the Heart: One Woman’s Story of Being Struck by Lightning by Gretel Ehrlich (National Bestseller)
9-(d) Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
7-(e) With a Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson by Mary Catherine Bateson (Note: There is a Prologue before the opening I have used.)
3-(f) Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir by Cheri Register (Winner of the American Book Award)
1-(g) If I am Missing or Dead: A Sister’s Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation by Janine Latus
8-(h) Love Always, Petra: A Story of Courage and the Discovery of Life’s Hidden Gifts by Petra Nemcova
5-(i) Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox
