Title: Mozart Blooms in Woodstock: The Illinois Festival That Could! Author: Anita Whalen Genre: Memoir In this beautifully presented and compact memoir, Anita Whalen shares experiences, insights, and anecdotes arising from her twenty-four-year tenure as Artistic and General Director of Illinois’ Woodstock Mozart Festival, an annual three-weekend summer classical music event.
Title: How Nature Healed a Broken Soul Author: Penny James Genre: Autobiography Penny James was raised in Colorado, spending summers at her grandmother’s ranch in Huerfano County, a place she considered her true home.
Title: Kim’s Memoir Author: Young-Koo Kim Genre: Memoir / Korean History Kim’s Memoir is the passionately told story of a prominent Korean jurist, naval officer, professor, and scholar of international law who spent his life serving South Korea, in particular doing legal work to ensure the security of the country’s Northern Limit Line.… Read More Kim’s Memoir – Editorial Review
Title: Convictions of a Chef: Cooking for the Counterculture and the One Percent Author: Evan Marcus-Rotman Genre: Memoir In Convictions of a Chef, Marcus-Rotman serves up a prison, culinary, and travel memoir liberally sprinkled with spiritual growth, self-reflection, and recreational drugs.
Title: Lessons in Poetry: For a Wayward Child of Sad Eyes and Lonely Heart Authors: Anita Garman and John Knowlton Genre: Memoir When her husband of 58 years dies, Anita is inconsolable at having lost her best friend, life companion, and soulmate. She slips in and out of periods of severe depression, struggling against her… Read More Lessons in Poetry – Editorial Review
Title: From Matzah Balls to Communion Wafers: How a Not-So Kosher Jewish Girl Fell in Love with Jesus Author: Gail Baker Genre: Spiritual Memoir This book comprises the episodic real-life recollections of a daughter, wife, and mother as she journeys through her liberal Jewish upbringing and subsequent spiritual struggles following her son’s bouts with depression and… Read More From Matzah Balls to Communion Wafers – Editorial Review
Title: Germ Warfare Author: Dr. Adrian Fine Genre: Fiction Germ Warfare by Dr. Adrian Fine is a fictionalized memoir of his early years as a medical student and a doctor in the United Kingdom and Ireland, then in Canada, and his counterpart is Dr. Robert Cohen in the book. Humorous stories of Robert’s… Read More Germ Warfare – Editorial Review
Mud, Sweat, and Tears – Guest Review Post My grandmother and I both share similar tastes in reading–classics and biographies/autobiographies. This Christmas, she gave me a copy of Bear Gryll’s autobiography, Mud, Sweat, and Tears.
With Angel’s Wings by Stephanie A. Collins How do you review a memoir? It feels wrong to apply the same criteria I would apply to fiction. This isn’t a story someone has written to entertain the reader. This is someone’s life.
