(Auto)Biographies and Memoirs

3894 · 01-14-2007, 03:54 PM

The past few months, I've read quite a few memoirs, starting with a couple by the food writer Ruth Reichl. I liked the one about her experiences as restaurant critic for The New York Times, disliked Comfort Me with Apples which gets bonus icky points for its dedication to her son (details about mom's sex life in this book).

Then I switched over to trainer of border collies/writer Jon Katz's The Dogs of Bedlam Farm. That was pretty fun so I bought the first one, A Dog Year. I left it at page 45 a couple of months ago. Katz is emotionally fragile and I just got tired of that.

Also read Roger Angell's Let Me Finish which means "let me finish this anecdote". Some of his essays about his auto trips in the 1920s were really fun. In other pieces, the memories of his mother's second husband, E.B. White, got sad and, I thought, intrusive.

I'd love to hear what you're reading in this category.

01-14-2007, 03:54 PM	#1
3894 Next Stop: Funkytown! Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Cheeselandia Posts: 1,907	(Auto)Biographies and Memoirs The past few months, I've read quite a few memoirs, starting with a couple by the food writer Ruth Reichl. I liked the one about her experiences as restaurant critic for The New York Times, disliked Comfort Me with Apples which gets bonus icky points for its dedication to her son (details about mom's sex life in this book). Then I switched over to trainer of border collies/writer Jon Katz's The Dogs of Bedlam Farm. That was pretty fun so I bought the first one, A Dog Year. I left it at page 45 a couple of months ago. Katz is emotionally fragile and I just got tired of that. Also read Roger Angell's Let Me Finish which means "let me finish this anecdote". Some of his essays about his auto trips in the 1920s were really fun. In other pieces, the memories of his mother's second husband, E.B. White, got sad and, I thought, intrusive. I'd love to hear what you're reading in this category.
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