Category Archives: Bios and Memoirs
Sexographies – Gabriela Wiener (translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Adcock and Lucy Greaves)
(Reviewed by JD Jung) Gabriela Wiener is not just any journalist. This Peruvian-born writer prefers to experience topics first-hand. That may even involve putting herself in extreme and often risky situations and then writing about her participation. So when it … Continue reading
Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Latin American Literature, Non-fiction, World Literature
Tagged love, Peru, sex, SMBD, Spain
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The Ghetto Swinger: A Berlin Jazz-Legend Remembers – Coco Schumann (Author), John Howard (Translator)
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I am a musician, a musician who was imprisoned in a concentration camp, not a concentration camp inmate who also plays some music. The camps and the fear fundamentally changed my life, but it was shaped … Continue reading
Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Jazz & Blues, Non-fiction, Our Best, WWII
Tagged anti-antisemitism, Berlin, Germany, jazz, music, Nazism
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A Tongue in the Sink: The Harrowing Adventures of a Baby Boomer Childhood – Dennis Fried
(Reviewed by Pat Luboff) I swear I am going to die laughing if I have enough wits about me as I breathe my last to remember one particular sentence in this book! I’m not going to tell you which one, … Continue reading
Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Humor & Satire, Our Best
Tagged baby-boomers, New York
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Hemingway’s Havana: A Reflection of the Writer’s Life in Cuba – Robert Wheeler
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “So much of Havana, and Cuba, centers on the sea, and in this beautiful but merciless sea lies a part of Hemingway’s spirit and a vast part of his literary genius.” The sea, along with Cuba’s … Continue reading
Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Travel
Tagged Cuba, Havana, Hemingway
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The Art of Fully Living: 1 Man. 10 Years. 100 Life Goals Around the World – Tal Gur
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Tal Gur is a man who aims to live life to the fullest, and wants to help others do the same. He expresses this sentiment in his memoir/self-help book, The Art of Fully Living . The … Continue reading
Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Your Best Self
Tagged goals, memoir, self-help
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Despair to Deliverance: A True Story of Triumph Over Severe Mental Illness Kindle Edition by Sharon DeVinney Ph.D., Robin Personette
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Psychotherapist Sharon DeVinney Ph.D. has been working with Robin since 1993. Robin suffers from anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. She also has suicidal thoughts that she initially does not reveal to Sharon. Despair to Deliverance, … Continue reading
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Tagged bipolar disorder, depression, memoirs, mental illness
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The Addiction Nobody Will Talk About: How I Let My Pornography Addiction Hurt People and Destroy Relationships – Joshua Shea
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Life can be so wonderfully posed, yet you can be struggling with the scariest demons behind closed doors and not know who to go to or how to deal with it. The Addiction Nobody Will Talk … Continue reading
Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Your Best Self
Tagged addiction, pornography, self-help
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Life After America: A memoir about the wild and crazy 1960s -Joseph Mark Glazner
(Reviewed by Don Jung) How does a young twenty-two year old learn to live in an unfamiliar land with no friends or family and make it his home? Joseph anticipated being drafted into the Viet Nam War and, like so … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, Canada, Non-fiction, Vietnam War
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Surviving Schizophrenia: My Story of Paranoid Schizophrenia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Depression, Anosognosia, Suicide, and Treatment and Recovery from Severe Mental Illness – Richard Carlson
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Surviving Schizophrenia is a memoir written by Richard Carlson, who was twenty one when he was diagnosed with this mental illness. The book revolves around his illness and recovery. It took ten years for the professionals … Continue reading
Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Skinny reads
Tagged book reviews, memoir, mental illness, Schizophrenia
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Illegal: a true story of love, revolution and crossing borders – John Dennehy
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “For the first time in my life I know exactly where I want to be. I have found my home in the shadow of an Andean volcano in Ecuador. I’m about to move in with the … Continue reading
Posted in Bios and Memoirs, Immigration, World Issues
Tagged book reviews, deportation, immigration, memoirs
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