Category Archives: Memoir

Dancing Naked in the MindField by Kary Mullis (Review)

Aside from being a case study of the pure serendipity and rampant oddity that pervades science it is also very engagingly written.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (Review)

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

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