Sentences with phrase «as a memoir when»

She owns up to her mistakes (promoting a book as a memoir when it was fiction), acts silly (a cross-country road trip with her best friend Gayle), cries when her dog dies or she hears a heartbreaking story, gets behind causes she believes in (a girls school in South Africa), and acts like a student and not just a teacher (organizing a 10 - week online class to discuss Eckhart Tolle's book, «A New Earth.»)

Not exact matches

Sometimes a phrase or sentiment from the memoir is lifted virtually unchanged into the novels, as when Mantel's mother and Jack, like Henry and Anne, are described as «[the] couple who had endured, to be together, so much adverse public opinion.»

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

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.

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.

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.

I have rarely been quite so tickled as when I learned that my memoir, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, had been banned.

Created as a future memoir for my children when they are older, hopefully you will enjoy it.

Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup (as told to David Wilson) and adapted for the screen by John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave sees an affluent black American — a violinist and family man born free in New York state - pitched into a waking nightmare when he's kidnapped by slavers in 1841.

When it comes to his latest directorial effort, an adaptation of cartoonist John Callahan «s memoir Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, the movie is undoubtedly remarkable, but it's due to the performances Van Sant pulls from his actors rather than the film as a whole.

When Robert Redford originally purchased the rights to Bill Bryson's 1998 memoir A Walk in the Woods, he intended it as a reunion film for himself and his lifelong friend Paul Newman.

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.

Based on Roger's 2011 memoir and directed by Hoop Dreams» Steve James, the film traces the outspoken film critic's professional and personal journey from Pulitzer Prize - winning writer at the Chicago Sun - Times to his rise as a beloved TV movie reviewer alongside Gene Siskel and, ultimately, to his 11 - year battle with thyroid cancer, which ended in April when he died at age 70.

And the story gets even stranger when you tell it, as Franco does, from the perspective of Wiseau's friend and collaborator, Greg Sestero; Franco's film is based on Sestero's memoir The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, which he co-wrote with Tom Bissell.

«BROKEN PLACES succeeds as the gritty memoir of a woman who was sexually assaulted when she was young and the author's story of survival will surprise the reader because of its candidness and unexpected ending.»

Filled with the beautiful black - and - white photographs that Paul loved to take when he was not battling bureaucrats, as well as family snapshots, this memoir is laced with wonderful stories about the French character, particularly in the world of food, and the way of life that Julia embraced so wholeheartedly.

In this searing, sparely written, and surprisingly wry memoir, Beth Greenfield shares what happens in 1982 when, as a twelve - year - old, she survives a drunk - driving accident that kills her younger brother Adam and best friend Kristin.

Winter Journal is far more than a simple collection of lists, however; the memoir is strongest and most emotionally compelling when the reader can see Auster arriving at moments of revelation, such as the realization that his moments of periodic physical frailty coincide closely with episodes of emotional intensity, personal crisis, and loss.

As luck would have it, a friend, Madeline Sharples, had a memoir out, Leaving the Hall Light On, which was suddenly dropped when her very small publisher also closed.

Event Date: July 11, 2018 Time: 10AM PT / 1PM ET Join us as publishing and intellectual property attorney, Jonathan Kirsch, discusses How to Avoid Getting Sued When Writing a Memoir.

Tips on how to keep writing when you want to quit as well as the risks and rewards of memoir.

As a fan of Becoming Odyssa, her memoir of first hiking the AT after college, I was thrilled when I learned that Davis had written a new book, Called Again: A Story of Love and Triumph, about her recent record - breaking experience.

Terese Marie Mailhot's debut, Heart Berries, is a striking, poetic memoir detailing her upbringing on an Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and her revelation that writing can act as a release valve when the pressures of trauma and ancestral pain become too much to bear.

Michael Idov fled Latvia with his family as a teenager, only to return to Moscow with his wife and young daughter when offered the position of editor - in - chief for GQ Russia, a three - year foray he recounts in his erudite yet quick - witted and slightly absurd memoir.

It is even competing with the big houses in New York to pay top dollar for authors, as it did when it ponied up $ 800,000 to acquire a memoir by the film director Penny Marshall.

A year ago, when I published my memoir, Tales of a Law School Dropout, as an eBook on Amazon, I had no idea that writing a book would open doors for me to become a business owner.

These are historical novels with a memoir flavor that sold well as print books when they were originally published by a press in North Carolina.

Just as important, she is there for you for support to guide you through the tough times that every memoir writer encounters, particularly when writing about the tough and painful times of your life.

As a memoir addict, when I'm looking for my next fix on Amazon, I look at a book's title, cover, and synopsis first.

No matter how incredible your story is, when publishing a memoir you're not only selling your story, you're also selling yourself as a credible authority on a certain subject.

As a moving - image memoir and deeply disturbing confessional, First Person Plural covers the years 1984 to 1996 when Hershman Leeson was grappling with her emotional scars and the psychological blowback from a childhood of physical and sexual abuse, followed by a period in her life as a battered wife who, with her daughter, eventually found the courage to walk away from that situatioAs a moving - image memoir and deeply disturbing confessional, First Person Plural covers the years 1984 to 1996 when Hershman Leeson was grappling with her emotional scars and the psychological blowback from a childhood of physical and sexual abuse, followed by a period in her life as a battered wife who, with her daughter, eventually found the courage to walk away from that situatioas a battered wife who, with her daughter, eventually found the courage to walk away from that situation.

In his 1987 memoir, «CVJ: Nicknames of Maitre D's & Other Excerpts from Life,» written when he was just 36, Schnabel described the painting as the «first that went astray from the predetermined format of a stretched canvas.

Moore appears as the villain over the course of this memoir, with dark foreshadowing of his decline even when times were good.

Humphrey entered the lists as the elusive obsession of Klaus Kertess (as he tells us in a Candide - like catalogue memoir) when the latter turned away from art history at Yale University to found the Bykert Gallery

There's also a personal memoir of Lord Denning, who mentored Brooke as a student of the law, and whom Brooke helped with a scheme of informal residential weekends at Cumberland Lodge to provide help and encouragement to overseas bar students, at a time when the Inns had a less inclusive and pastoral approach to them.

Created as a future memoir for my children when they are older, hopefully you will enjoy it.