Sentences with phrase «not as memoir»

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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.

(Can't give you the details as I'm writing a memoir and don't wish to give the good bits away in case it gets published) Even though I have doubted all the other stuff along the years — promises etc that didn't come to pass, despite my diligent prayer and obedience, I still cry out to «something out there» because I am spirit in a human body, and know that I am on a journey that has to mean more than simply this earthly plain.

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.

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.

Despite the book's subtitle, however, this is not so much a history as a combination of memoir and spiritual autobiography, the work of a writer who is wrestling honestly with his faith and the legacy of his church.

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.

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.

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.»)

As a psychotherapist in private practice for 30 years and the author of a book on parenting, I «m not surprised that American parents are considering a memoir as a guide for child rearinAs a psychotherapist in private practice for 30 years and the author of a book on parenting, I «m not surprised that American parents are considering a memoir as a guide for child rearinas a guide for child rearing.

The Conservative views has not received as much personal memoir of interpretation, although Oliver Letwin's recent Hearts and Minds does deal with some aspects in a very elegant and thoughtful way.

The memoir tellingly begins with politics, not a misty - eyed recall to ancestral homes in Glasgow and County Donegal; though, Blair weaves anecdotes as asides in his narrative.

Meanwhile, one of the most common refrains against Bernie Sanders — as Clinton herself noted in her 2017 memoir — is that «he isn't even a Democrat.»

History will not judge Darling as a great figure, but this memoir gives a worthwhile glimpse of the Greek tragedy that was being played out next door at No10.

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.

As it turns out, the Capital Region was in the hunt for attracting a computer chip factory from not only Advanced Micro Devices, but also Intel and Samsung, former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno reveals in his new memoir.

«Not an exposé as such, but a political memoir.

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.

This is schizophrenia, as recounted in Saks's memoir, The Center Can not Hold.

It is not so much a fashion memoir as my autobiography, of which fashion was a part.

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.

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.

David Haglund of the latter aptly pointed out, «In case you're wondering: No, As I Lay Dying is not a memoir, and it is not by James Franco.

Moreover, as illustrated by the trailer above, All Is By My Side isn't so much a conventional memoir - it simply can't be, since the Hendrix estate refused to allow writer / director John Ridley to use any of the songs created by its artist subject.

If I'd gone to war at the age of eighteen and come home without firing a shot, I suspect I'd have written something as vapid, grandiose, and self - conscious as Anthony Swofford's memoir Jarhead, the story of a ground war that never really materialized (and wouldn't until the son of that era's president decided to bring to climax what daddy'd coaxed to erection).

An Obama's Journey is a jaw - dropping memoir which casts a pall not only over Barack, Sr. but over Barack as well.

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).

«I can not tell you, as much as I thought the memoir and Solomon's words and work was special, I had no concept until I saw the movie for the first time,» said the film's screenwriter, John Ridley, accepting the prize in that category as he referred to protagonist Solomon Northup.

Truffaut doesn't push any of the trendy buttons in his chronicle of a connoisseur des femmes: Charles Denner approaches each stage of each conquest as though it were a matter of life and death, and by the time the title of the movie, and Denner's memoir - in - progress, has been fulfilled, we see that those are the stakes precisely.

Drawn from Bloom's 2014 memoir as well as episodes and experiences she didn't include, the movie is a big, brash tale of American striving as well as an identity - blurring, chronology - fudging bit of storytelling business.

It's based on the best selling memoir — steady yourself if you haven't heard this title — Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern - Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together.

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.&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.»

But «The Big Stick» is not one of those semi-awful, schematically spelled out conflicts such as the unfunny «My Big Fat Greek Wedding», but rather features a crackerjack script graced with a marvelous ensemble that mixes melodrama and broad comedy, and comes across like a hilarious memoir based on Kumail's actual marriage to Emily in one of the most beautiful stories of love and its conflicts you may run across in the theaters this year.

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.»

Based on Vera Brittain's iconic memoir, the story opens in 1914, as Vera (Alicia Vikander) begs her parents (Emily Watson and Dominic West) to let her sit entrance exams at Oxford, which simply isn't the done thing for a proper young woman.

«It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives,» Northrup wrote in his memoir.

Hornby's memoir of his life as an obsessive fan of the Arsenal football club was adapted into not one, but two films.

Working from a script by John Ridley (Red Tails, U Turn), who adapts Northup's own incredible memoir published in 1853, McQueen creates a powerful effect by not making the film «epic» or by proclaiming itself an «pretentiously important issues movie», but by keeping the emphasis on the characters and their individual stories much more so than as a film meant to cover the topic of slavery as a whole.

Joseph Gordon - Levitt is taking to the skies but not as a superhero.Twitch has learned that Levitt will take the lead in Robert Zemeckis» adaptation of Philippe Petit's memoir To Reach The Clouds.

We've used Sestero's memoir, as well as interviews with Wiseau and others from over the years, to separate the The Disaster Artist's facts from the moments that made us say, «It's not true, it's bullshit.»

On Tuesday, I'll moderate a Vanity Fair screening of Paul McGuigan's Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, with McGuigan, Annette Bening, and Jamie Bell on hand at NeueHouse, as well as Paul Turner, whose memoir of his unlikely love affair with Gloria Grahame supplied the film's source material.

In Days of Grace, a memoir by Arthur Ashe published after his death from AIDS last spring, the tennis champion recounts not only his experiences as one of the first African - Americans to rise to the top of that white - dominated sport, but also his thoughts as part of a generation that came of age during the civil - rights movement.

He is also the author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, and Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals.

Nonnarrative nonfiction (NNNF) is nonfiction that does not tell a story, as memoir and biography do.

Ever the optimist, I'm hoping that this Rovian plan, not only released as Bush's Brain released his memoir but also on the take out the trash time on Friday, is a sign that the Administration knows it is DOA.

The fact that 43 - year - old Byars is giving a phone interview is nothing short of a miracle, given that he nearly died not once, but twice — in a pair of events that he chronicles in the intensely powerful memoir Will & I. Not much has been easy since, he writes: «Actions as simple as brushing my teeth, shaving and showering all begin with the question «How am I going to do this?»&raqnot once, but twice — in a pair of events that he chronicles in the intensely powerful memoir Will & I. Not much has been easy since, he writes: «Actions as simple as brushing my teeth, shaving and showering all begin with the question «How am I going to do this?»&raqNot much has been easy since, he writes: «Actions as simple as brushing my teeth, shaving and showering all begin with the question «How am I going to do this?»»

Her desire for companionship, solidarity, and direction will resonate with YA readers, and although teens might not be as familiar with the specific details of Satrapi's memoir, they'll come away enlightened by her story.

But relieving as their eventual, frankly but not luridly exposed, discovery is, it's only one of this vast memoir's rewards.

Kennedy is also the author of the travel memoir Sing and Don't Cry: A Mexican Journal, the poetry collections Joyflight and Signs of Other Fires, as well as the novel The World Beneath.

You can also find other free samples of my work there, not just from this book but from others too, both published (my diabetes book) and as yet unpublished (my memoir of moving from the city to the country).

As someone who primarily writes memoir and on difficult topics, it is hard to publish the not so pretty truth.