Book Review: Everything All at Once, Stephanie Catudal
Book review of Stephanie Catudal’s memoir Everything All at Once, which tells the parallel story of her father’s death and husband Tommy Riv’s illness from lung cancer.
Book review of Stephanie Catudal’s memoir Everything All at Once, which tells the parallel story of her father’s death and husband Tommy Riv’s illness from lung cancer.
The Hero of this Book, by Elizabeth McCracken is filed under fiction, but has a lot to say about memoir.
A book review of Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss by Gayle Brandeis.
I found a few common themes in the opening lines of memoirs.
Louise has a brain injury at 22 just as she was beginning her glossy life in LA.
A review of Suleika Jaouad’s Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted. A cancer memoir about cancer, but also a journey.
I started reading The Opposite of Certainty, a memoir by Janine Urbaniak Reid, because it’s another story about someone with a brain tumor. While the details were different, I saw my story.
When a speech teacher dared us with 20 zeroes. I took the challenge. Now I’m older and have finally found a way to speak that suits me.
reading the diary of a famous writer during the quarantine is perfect since it reminds me of all the things I can’t write, right now and how famous writers struggle sometimes too.
Review of The Song Poet by Kao Kalia Yang. The book is a love letter to her father who struggles with voice and to give his family love and care in a land that has taken them in, but has not always valued their traditions and differences.