I’m taking a night class for writing. This one happens to be a Memoir writing class.<\/p>\n
It fit my schedule.<\/p>\n
But it’s also a very interesting style.<\/p>\n
One of our assignments is to read a memoir and do a presentation about it.<\/p>\n
My lazy impulse is to do a report on a book I’ve already read. When I stop to think about it, I have read a lot of memoirs:<\/p>\n
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings <\/i>by Maya Angelou<\/p>\n
Travels With Charley <\/i>by Steinbeck<\/p>\n
Walden<\/i> by Thoreau<\/p>\n
Earth Horizon<\/i> by Mary Austin<\/p>\n
A Room of One’s Own <\/i>by Virginia Woolfe<\/p>\n
Paradise, Piece by Piece<\/i> by Molly Peacock<\/p>\n
Me Talk Pretty One Day <\/i>by David Sedaris<\/p>\n
As Far As You Can Go Without A Passport<\/i> by Tom Bodett<\/p>\n
Walk Across America<\/i> by Peter Jenkins<\/p>\n
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius<\/i> by David Eggers<\/p>\n
On The Road<\/i> by Jack Keruoac<\/p>\n
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman <\/i>by Richard Feynman<\/p>\n
Grass Soup<\/i> by Zhang Xianlang<\/p>\n
Traveling Mercies<\/i> by Anne Lamott<\/p>\n
Citizen 13660<\/i>by Mine Okubo<\/p>\n
Maus<\/i> by Art Spiegelman<\/p>\n
San Francisco Stories<\/i> by Derek Powazek<\/p>\n
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts <\/i>by Maxine Hong Kingston<\/p>\n
Those are the ones I just remember, the ones I’ve read already (or at least started).<\/p>\n
I love all of them. But maybe I should branch out and try reading something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Those are the ones I just remember, the ones I’ve read already (or at least started).<\/p>\n
I love all of them. But maybe I should branch out and try reading something new.
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