All Blog Posts Tagged 'memoir' (69)

Eighteen Months To Live is now available for purchase at Smashwords in Epub format which is the format used for Apple iPad, Apple iBooks, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo, and many other reading devices. So now you can read Eighteen Months To Live on your iPad or Nook!

Eighteen Months To Live is the real life story of my mother, Midge Rylander, in her final months of life after a diagnosis with malignant pleural mesothelioma. Andrea wrote in her review on Goodreads that "it is, in its own way,…

You can now download from Goodreads a free excerpt from my book Eighteen Months To Live (in .epub format) or read it online in the Goodreads Reader. Go to the Eighteen Months To Live page on Goodreads and click on the "Download Excerpt" button next to where it says "Get A Copy." Here is the link to my book's page on Goodreads:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16311330-eighteen-months-to-live

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Hello everyone,

For a little fun today, I’m participating in a blog hop, which is an interview with myself about my soon-to-be-published book and some fun trivia about myself. I hope you enjoy it!

1. Tell us a little bit about the book you’re promoting.

I’m in the editing stage of my memoir – Chronicles of a Troubled Girl. It is a collection…

How are you all doing today? I’ve been enjoying the spring weather and trying to get outside as much as possible. Some news: I’m pleased to announce that my book cover for Chronicles of a Troubled Girl has been created. I won the free cover design on a giveaway courtesy of ErmisendaDESIGN on Ermilia Blog. I am very…

About Final Analysis:

He was the rising star of psychoanalysis, an intimate associate of Anna Freud and Kurt Eissler, a member of the Freudian “inner circle” with unrestricted access to the Freud Archives. And then Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson threw it all away because he dared to break the psychoanalytic…

From my personal library

Rating: 3.5

First off, Charley is a dog. You would think that John Steinbeck would have a manly dog, a lab, a retriever or maybe a shepard? Well you would be wrong. Charley is a poodle and he is…

Michael Perry is an interesting man. He leads the life that so many nameless drones in the city think they would trade a left arm for: bucolic, picturesque, wholesome. I'm sorry if that seems…

By Keith Richards

Back Bay Books 576 pgs

978-0316034418

From my library

Rating: 5 - Sheer Perfection

 Full disclosure: I am hopelessly in love with Keith Richards

OK, now that you know that I'd like to talk about rock and roll for a minute. Rock and roll is a force of nature. It can and does work radical change on every culture it touches. Remember back in the day when parents were horrified by it and teachers warned of a break down…

Submitted by TCU Press

Rating: 4.5

Home Truths is Gerald Duff's memoir of a boyhood spent on the Gulf Coast and deep in the piney woods of East Texas. I am a native Texan and I…

Chocolates and roses and sweet little notes, candlelit dinners and quiet nights alone. But did you consider sentimental Italian dogs, lovelorn teens and perpetually aggrieved mobsters? Did you consider vampires?



Now you can. Through February 14th we're offering 30% off select romance titles at…

Rhoda Janzen was a well-educated, competent, east-coast professional living the life – little black dress and all. Then her husband announced that he was gay and leaving her. Shortly afterwards she got into a devastating car wreck which necessitated her moving back in with her Mennonite parents. The ensuing culture clash sparked a wonderfully written, bittersweet memoir that has become a best seller…as well it should. Ms. Janzen is candidly and hilariously honest about her parents, her…

The day after my last post, which was about how I hadn’t worked on my manuscripts in a few months, I resumed working on my work-in-progress: Chronicles of a Troubled Girl. I wrote for one to two hours a day most days, and I’m happy to say that I finished the first draft the other day! It feels great to have completed the writing part of the book project.

The next step is to edit. Since it is a compilation of my journal entries from childhood to adulthood, and I want the book…

Okay, it’s time to take a break from working to get back to blogging :) I have been tagged by Katie S. Pendergrass for The Next Big Thing Blog Hop. The “rules” are to answer 10 questions about my work-in-progress. I have two work-in-progresses, so I will choose Chronicles of a Troubled Girl for this blog hop.

1. What is the working title of your book?

Chronicles of a Troubled Girl: A…

Today I will be interviewing Olga Vannucci, an author I met on Book Blogs. Olga Vannucci was born in Italy, lived in Brazil, and came to the U.S. to attend Brown University.  She lives in rural New Jersey with her beloved son, George. She is the author of Travels With George. Let’s start the…

Review of The Man in the Empty Boat, a memoir by Mark Salzman.

About The Fruit of the Tree:

‘A tribute to her lost baby, and our crusade to find out why.’ -The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths

In Jacquelynn Luben’s quest to have a family, she suffers the disappointment of miscarriage and the tragedy of cot death. Set against an unusual…

About The Barrios of Manta:

In February 1962, Earle and Rhoda Brooks, a young sales engineer and his schoolteacher wife, left home and friends in Illinois to serve as members of the Peace Corps in Manta, Ecuador. This book is an account of their life in the Peace Corps. The first book ever written by Peace…

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — For over twenty years, Darlene was known as a well-mannered teacher in a Southern California school district. Unbeknownst to her colleagues and students, she also worked as a professional dominatrix for eighteen of those years. Now in her new book, Playing Darlene, the author gives readers a behind the scenes peek into the lives of those who work in the sex industry as well as how she managed to juggle such seemingly incompatible lives all the while…

About Shrink on the Loose:

Ride shotgun with Dr. Z and enter a psychologist’s world far beyond the stereotypical. You’ll discover culturally diverse and often precarious treatment sessions and evaluations in home kitchens, a Navajo hogan, an Army dining hall, and psych hospitals deep in the tropics.…

About Every Good-Bye Ain’t Gone:

With the passionate lyricism of a Maya Angelou and the sharply edged wit of a young Lillian Hellman, award-winning journalist Itabari Njeri creates a kaleidoscopic portrait of the extraordinary family in which she grew up., Njeri’s memoir is improbable, complex, grandly…