memoir or bio for men and women asked 100 days ago by Sarah C. - 2 answers
I plan the reading for a bookclub with both men and women. We read a variety of genres, but I get stuck finding memoirs or bios. We request them from our local library consortium, so it cannot be anything particulary obscure. Any ideas? The Andre Agassi memoir was EXCELLENT on every level. The Tender Bar was also excellent. It's a memoir by the Ghost Writer of the Agassi book. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is very short but will lead to endless conversation. I just finished an interesting bio by Ian Cron, titled Jesus, my father, the CIA and Me. I saw him interviewed a yr ago and knew nothing about him and not much else after the interview (mostly due to inexperience of interviewer, I think). So I literally have no real recollection of their conversation but we were all given a copy of the book - which I finally read. I found it very interesting - its no different than child born into disfunctional family, father in Cia but this fact hidden from children, usual boyhood angst with alcoholic father, sort of ditzy mother, and from all this unfolds a peeling back of Cron's childhood, his own alcoholism, his discoveries and non discoveries about his father and his resolution with God when he finally got to his core understanding of what his losses. Sounds boring but I laughed in places, very sad in places but in the end Ian Cron cam together as the person he was through all the parts of his life and how each part played upon the other.... and how finding God in all of the places gave him peace while he put all the puzzle pieces together - finally. Sounds boring and trite but he is a lovely writer and the story is fairly universal. Your group may like it. Think you can get it through Amazon at a low rate.... (through FLW, of course!)
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