Sentences with phrase «as a memoir about»

In «Unlikely Companions: The Adventures of an Exotic Animal Doctor (Or, What Friends Feathered, Furred, and Scaled Have Taught Me About Life and Love» author and veterinarian Laurie Hess (with Samantha Rose), presents the reader with a mystery as well as a memoir about her life.

Not exact matches

He is the author of two books: BIG LIKE: CASCADE INTO AN ODYSSEY, a travel memoir of an almost regular guy who gets totally unstuck in Tokyo — a «funny as hell non-fiction book about wanderlust and traveling abroad»; and TESTOSTERONE PIT, a short, edgy, humorous novel about car salesmen, their customers, managers, and shenanigans at a large Ford dealership.

He has been on tour after the publication of his first true memoir, about his mother Lillian, a woman he describes as «the lifeguard on the shores of Lake Fucked.»

«I love books about people coming into their vocations, and this haunting memoir by musician Patti Smith brilliantly evokes a time and place in New York City, as she and Robert Mapplethorpe began to build artistic lives for themselves,» says Rubin of this one.

What it's about: Comedian Eddie Izzard in this memoir outlines and reflects on his unique path to success as an international star.

Comey is doing publicity for his new memoir, A Higher Loyalty, which includes explosive details about the runup to his firing as FBI director by Trump.

Rediscovering a love for biography and memoir as a way of learning about history.

«The Christian Church has started to realize that we're sexual, too, and we are just as visually stimulated as men and we look at porn,» said Crystal Renaud, author of the recent book «Dirty Girls Come Clean,» a memoir about her own addiction to porn.

In her memoir, she writes at length about what happened in her family and in her backyard, and even about Satan himself, as she tries to make sense of her experience.

I remembered Brennan Manning — the man who has translated the love of God in a way that I could receive it more than probably any other writer — was addicted to alcohol and I re-read up one of his last books before he died: «All is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir» where he vulnerably writes about what this battle has cost him, even as he experienced the unending and unconditional love of God in the midst of it, how he experienced regret and pain and loss alongside of the love and tenderness of God in this dependency.

Lisa Velthouse is an author and speaker who learned much about her sin during a six - month fast from sweets, as told in her memoir Craving Grace.

The higher power recently spoke with EW about his upcoming memoir — as told to former «Daily Show» exec David Javerbaum — his Twitter account and (but of course!)

When Jason Boyett and I realized we had both written memoir - style books about our experiences with doubt to be published byZondervan in the spring / summer of 2010, we decided to team up rather than compete — an arrangement that has probably worked more in my favor than his, seeing as Jason's already published a shelf - full of books and has earned a reputation for being one of the industry's most thoughtful and humorous voices.

Even though it won't be released until June of 2010, my first book — a spiritual memoir about growing up in the conservative evangelical subculture only to question my faith as a young adult — is really starting to come to life.

So as I'm writing my next book — a memoir about church — I started reminiscing about youth group and all the crazy games we used to play, chief among them Chubby Bunny — a game in which several «volunteers» cram as many marshmallows as they can into their mouths and attempt to say «chubby bunny» without throwing up or choking to death.

First, I want to think with you about a matter that requires me not entirely to pass by some parts of the memoir, even though» as I said at the outset» I myself think it hard to find the right way to take them up.

Many in Hollywood say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»

As Scott McClellan revealed in his new tell - all memoir about serving as press secretary in the White House, the Bush administration has consistently implemented a policy of «you're either for us or you're against us» when it comes to making foreign policy decisionAs Scott McClellan revealed in his new tell - all memoir about serving as press secretary in the White House, the Bush administration has consistently implemented a policy of «you're either for us or you're against us» when it comes to making foreign policy decisionas press secretary in the White House, the Bush administration has consistently implemented a policy of «you're either for us or you're against us» when it comes to making foreign policy decisions.

It was my conviction that, as no professional biographer in his right mind would touch Whitehead, someone who knew him and his work should write as much about this great man's life as the scanty materials allowed; not a memoir, mind you, but an objective partial biography.

He finally confronts the question so often asked of him in It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium, his disarmingly honest and bittersweet memoir about his life as an ex-athlete, the best sports book of the year.

I was so touched that Jamie Lee Curtis read the memoir, seeing as her book Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born was Tariku's favorite for about 2 yAbout the Night I Was Born was Tariku's favorite for about 2 yabout 2 years.

For a child, it isn't necessarily a happy thing, or so Melissa Cistaro told me as we chatted about her new memoir, Pieces of My Mother, which details her decades - long search to understand why her mother abandoned her and her two brothers when they were all under the age of 5.

Which is an enormously ironic statement, seeing as my memoir is about doing exactly that, albeit in a different context.

Expat Adoptee Mommy The author of a memoir about about her adoption and reunion writes about her experiences as an ex-pat mother.

Sarah's book, also titled Fed Up With Lunch, is as much a personal memoir as it is a book about school food reform.

Veil always thought of herself as French rather than Jewish and her memoir reveals how ambivalent she felt about the ways in which Nazi criminals such as Klaus Barbie were abducted.

Sir Alan's memoir covers themes such as religion, education, the north and it contains a moving chapter about the tragic loss of his first wife Barbara and son Chris.

On the other hand, it can be argued that Quinn is not especially concerned with Thompson, and has in fact been thinking just as much about the soon - to - be candidacy of Anthony Weiner, as demonstrated by her Sharing Tour and upcoming memoir, seemingly tailor - made to trump Weiner's own Oprahtic tale of personal redemption.

A memoir would have been perhaps diffi cult for him to write as it would have required lengthy self - analysis, not least about his unhappy childhood.

In his memoir, he wrote about camping on this property with his young family as their jungle home was built.

As much about dealing with the pain of parting as an artistic memoir, this is a bittersweet delighAs much about dealing with the pain of parting as an artistic memoir, this is a bittersweet delighas an artistic memoir, this is a bittersweet delight.

If what you want is to hear people talk about Petit (including Petit), you might as well buy a copy of the memoir upon which the «The Walk» is based, or watch James Marsh's great 2008 nonfiction film «Man on Wire,» which includes so many re-enactments that it's half a drama, anyway.

A Memoir by Sonsyrea Tate Strebor Books Paperback, $ 15.00 288 pages ISBN: 978 -1-59309-122-4 Book Review by Kam Williams «The story I must tell in order to be transformed is the story of my coming out — out of Islam, out of my parents» house, out of traditional choices, out of conventional thinking — in a way, out of my mind... This is a story I need to tell as much as the world suddenly needs to know more about Muslim women behind the veil... I began questioning Islam by the time I was twelve, and by the time I was twenty - one I was sure Islam was not for me.

But that's where she finds herself as the director of «First They Killed My Father,» the Netflix film based on Loung Ung's memoir about growing up in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime.

Strengths: Another movie that festival audiences adored is Paul McGuigan's «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool,» adapted from Peter Turner's memoir about Gloria Grahame, starring Annette Bening as the aging star who has an affair with a younger actor (Jamie Bell).

«Wolf of Wall Street,» adapted from Jordan Belfort's memoir about his meteoric rise and fall as a trader in the 1980s and...

She burst onto the scene with a memoir about her brief career working as a stripper before winning an Oscar for her work on Juno, one of the finest films released in a great year for cinema, 2007.

The Biggest Winners: What Ivana Reveals About Trump Family Values — Megan Garber analyzes Ivana Trump's new book as a parenting memoir, and an ode to being better than everyone else.

Lone Survivor is based on the best - selling memoir by Marcus Luttrell (Played in the film by Mark Wahlberg, 2 Guns) about his ordeal in 2005 as a Navy SEAL who must fight for survival with three of his fellow frogmen in the mountains of Afghanistan when their mission, dubbed Operation Red Wings, is compromised, resulting in the Taliban in the area hunting them down.

The film is based on Solomon Northup's memoir about his life in slavery after being abducted as a free man in New York.

by Bill Chambers Burt Reynolds and Frank Langella are very different actors (Burt could not have pulled off Dracula, nor would Langella have ever looked at home behind the wheel of a Trans - Am) and, as it happens, very different writers, yet in 2015's But Enough About Me: A Memoir and 2012's Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them, respectively, they've taken a similar approach to memoir by reminiscing about, in Langella's words, «the transient company of many remarkable people.&raquas it happens, very different writers, yet in 2015's But Enough About Me: A Memoir and 2012's Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them, respectively, they've taken a similar approach to memoir by reminiscing about, in Langella's words, «the transient company of many remarkable people.&rAbout Me: A Memoir and 2012's Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them, respectively, they've taken a similar approach to memoir by reminiscing about, in Langella's words, «the transient company of many remarkable people.&Memoir and 2012's Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them, respectively, they've taken a similar approach to memoir by reminiscing about, in Langella's words, «the transient company of many remarkable people.&raquAs I Knew Them, respectively, they've taken a similar approach to memoir by reminiscing about, in Langella's words, «the transient company of many remarkable people.&memoir by reminiscing about, in Langella's words, «the transient company of many remarkable people.&rabout, in Langella's words, «the transient company of many remarkable people.»

Testament of Youth (PG - 13 for mature themes and disturbing images) Adaptation of Vera Brittain's (Alicia Vikander) coming - of - age memoir recounting her service as a nurse in London during World War I while awaiting word about the fate of her brother (Taron Egerton) and fiance (Kit Harington) fighting on the front lines.

While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and sugarcane were harvested and processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»

He's offered conflicting reports about his background on the record, and The Room star Greg Sestero (who authored the memoir The Disaster Artist, an account of the hysterical goings - on behind the scenes) remembers Wiseau as constantly spinning deluded stories from his own past in conversation.

The Glass Castle: This misbegotten adaptation of Jeannette Walls» memoir is about as far away from Destin Daniel Cretton's masterful previous film, Short Term 12, as one could possibly imagine.

In the My World of Flops piece on Rachel Dolezal's fascinatingly, poignantly, hilariously misguided memoir, I wrote about how Dolezal casually mentions that because of her Dickensian upbringing as the abused and overworked progeny of scheming, racist parents she has no sense of humor.

Vera Brittain's memoir Testament of Youth served as a searing and intensely moving account about the emotional scars World War I left on an entire generation.

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