Tag Archives: memoirs
Book review: Hey Kids, Want Some Chocolates?: My Family’s Journey to Freedom by Melitta Strandberg (9781456717933)
“I guess sometimes the search for freedom is enough to keep one alive.” Melitta and her family’s experience in Nazi Germany in WWII was something that no one wants to contemplate, but it happened and she has written a short, … Continue reading
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Book review: There Are Worse Things I Could Do by Adrienne Barbeau (9780786716371)
Adrienne Barbeau is not only a gifted actress and singer, but a gifted writer as well. There is early proof in the excerpts from her journals starting in fifth grade and her ninth grade term paper., “To Be Or Not … Continue reading
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Book review – Forgiving Troy: A True Story of Murder, Mental Illness, and Recovery by Thom Bierdz (9781615394852)
Thom Bierdz is an actor, artist, author and loving brother who reaches into his own psyche to tell a heart wrenching and raw account of his life that will leave you breathless. Not only does Thom write about his struggle … Continue reading
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Book review: Suitcase Full of Dreams by Hoy Kersh (9780982316511)
“There is a hardness to life that I couldn’t understand.” ~Hoy Kersh Ms. Kersh’s wonderful prose brings me back to the first time I read Harper Lee’s, “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Her descriptions of her family, her surroundings and growing … Continue reading
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Book Review: Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg (9781401322472)
“Without really trying, I have become a collector of other families’ secrets.” –Steve Luxenberg. Steve Luxenberg’s memoir reads like a mystery. In the Spring of 1995, Steve finds out that his mother, Beth, had a sister, Annie, who was mentally … Continue reading
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Book review:The Shipwreck of a Nation. Germany: An Inside View by H. Peter Nennhaus (9781432734039)
H. Peter Nennhaus grew up in Berlin during WWII; a volatile time in German and world history. The book is different in that he tells the story from a German boy’s point of view who saw things differently at that … Continue reading
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Book Review: Who Do You Think You Are? by Alyse Myers (9781416543060)
Alyse Myers’s memoir is very personal, brave and honest. This memoir was mainly about Alyse Myers’ rocky relationship with her mother. The eldest of three girls, Alyse adored her father, but hated her mother. Alyse was her father’s favorite, but … Continue reading
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Book review: Behind the Mask…No More by Byron Nease (9781419655296)
Byron Nease’s memoir is both tragic and uplifting at the same time. Byron “Bud” Nease was born into a family in turmoil and was whisked away from his minister father and his two sisters by his neurotic, actress/singer mother at … Continue reading
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