Category Archives: Memoir

Stalin’s Children by Owen Matthews (Review)

By Anysia | December 9, 2008

Owen Matthews has done a remarkable job of investigating and telling his family’s story in Stalin’s Children: Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival. The three generations are the author’s, his parents, and his grandparents.
Matthews’ maternal grandfather was executed during Stalin’s purges and his maternal grandmother was jailed, leaving their daughters Lenina and Lyudmila wards [...]

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Fierce by Barbara Robinette Moss (Review)

By Anysia | June 26, 2008

Released September 2004 (Scribner) * 256 pages * ISBN 13: 9780743229456

I’ve been procrastinating about writing this review, even though I loved the book, because some of the things that Barbara Robinette Moss touches on are still raw for me. In fact, I used a quote from Fierce in one of my own essays because Moss [...]

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Dear Dad by Louie Anderson (Review)

By Anysia | June 1, 2008

Released November 1989 (Viking) * 240 pages * ISBN 10: 0670829390

Louie Anderson is an American comedian who uses his dysfunctional childhood as fodder for his
stand up routine. Anderson grew up in a family of eleven children with an alcoholic father
This memoir (he has written several) is a series of letters that Anderson wrote to his [...]

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Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (Review)

By Anysia | May 25, 2008

Released March 2003 (HarperCollins) * 256 pages * ISBN 10: 0060569662

I read this for a writing class that I’m taking, so it’s not my usual fare (but I’ve learned lately that reading outside the usual fare is a good thing–I never thought I would like sushi either until I tried it). This particular memoir just [...]

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