Aside from being a case study of the pure serendipity and rampant oddity that pervades science it is also very engagingly written.
Category Archives: Memoir
Stalin’s Children by Owen Matthews (Review)
Review of Stalin’s Children by Owen Matthews. As a young woman, Lyudmila falls in love with a young British Sovietologist. Before they can marry, the young man is expelled from the country and they spend the next six years trying to reunite.
Fierce by Barbara Robinette Moss (Review)
A review of Fierce by Barabara Robinette Moss. Moss comes from poverty and chronicles her struggles as a single mother trying to achieve stability in all facets of her life and having to learn what that means each step of the way.
Dear Dad by Louie Anderson (Review)
A review of Dear Dad by Louie Anderson. This memoir (he has written several) is a series of letters that Anderson wrote to his alcoholic father nine years after his father’s death.
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (Review)
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…
