Title: Self-Contained Author: Emma John Genre: Memoir Publisher: Cassell Publication Date: 6th May 2021 Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: There is a piece of cod-wisdom regularly dispensed to single women: romance will arrive when you least expect it. I had assumed it would also make its own travel arrangements too. Emma John is in her 40s; … Continue reading Self-Contained by Emma John – Blog Tour Review
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The Twins of Auschwitz by Eva Mozes Kor with Lisa Rojany Buccieri – Blog Tour Review
Title: The Twins of Auschwitz Author: Eva Mozes Kor with Lisa Rojany Buccieri Genre: Memoir/Nonfiction Publisher: Monoray, Octopus Publication Date: 6th August 2020 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins. In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and her family arrived at Auschwitz. Within thirty minutes, they were … Continue reading The Twins of Auschwitz by Eva Mozes Kor with Lisa Rojany Buccieri – Blog Tour Review
Happy Fat by Sofie Hagen – Review
Title: Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You Author: Sofie Hagen Genre: Memoir Publisher: Harper Collins, Fourth Estate Publication Date: 2nd May 2019 Cover: Summary: In Happy Fat, comedian Sofie Hagen shares how she removed fatphobic influences from her daily life and found self-acceptance in a world where judgement … Continue reading Happy Fat by Sofie Hagen – Review
Educated by Tara Westover – Audiobook Review
Title: Educated Author: Tara Westover Audiobook Narrator: Julia Whelan Genre: Memoir Publisher: Windmill Books Publication Date: November 2018 Cover: Summary: from Amazon Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn’t exist. She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school … Continue reading Educated by Tara Westover – Audiobook Review
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay Review
Title : Hunger - A Memoir of (My) Body Author : Roxane Gay Publisher : Little Brown Summary from Publisher : New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, … Continue reading Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay Review