I think it would have been more aptly categorized and / or
titled as a memoir (a memoir which touches on parenting and Unschooling for sure).
I wrote a post with the very same
title as a memoir piece a couple of years ago Thinking of a short fiction piece with a Christmas theme for Sarah's Guest Post, nothing grabbed me — mild panic, yikes!
Not exact matches
Reading «Disrupted» strictly
as a
memoir of career transition — rather than
as some sort of exposé of life at HubSpot or life «in the startup bubble,»
as the
title provocatively puts it — will open your eyes to many of of the book's finer points.
Her mother penned a
memoir using the phrase
as its
title, and a Web site started selling «She Said Yes» T - shirts and other merchandise.
Sarah's book, also
titled Fed Up With Lunch, is
as much a personal
memoir as it is a book about school food reform.
Life Itself, based upon the 2012
memoir of the same
title written by legendary film critic Roger Ebert, was also honored today
as Best Documentary by the National Board of Review.
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.
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.
Given his historical status and his previous
titles» critical acclaim, it's conceivable that a
memoir of his will remain on bestseller lists literally for years, and could even work its way into educational curricula
as required reading.
I suggest that you pick one highly successful
memoir that is in the same tone or flavor
as yours, and use its
title in the «If you like» paragraph.
Although he became famous
as an investigative reporter for the Washington Post, Carl Bernstein has signed a deal with Henry Holt to write a
memoir titled The Washington Star, recalling his beginnings
as a copy boy and reporter for Washington's afternoon newspaper in the early 1960s.
Recent
titles, such
as Erin Stalcup's novel, Every Living Species, and Frances Cannon's graphic
memoir, The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big - Little Frank, have blurred the line between image and word, while others, such
as Glenn Shaheen's short story collection, Carnivalia, have combined poetry and prose.
Her nonfiction
titles include self - help, writing, and business
titles as well
as a
memoir.
Or have students connect factual prose biographies of authors (
titles in the Meet the Authors series are a good source) with an author's
memoir in poems, such
as Been to Yesterdays: Poems of a Life, by Lee Bennett Hopkins.
Other
titles among the list are Chris Bohjalian's Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands; our Top Pick in Nonfiction, The Mockingbird Next Door by Marja Mills, a
memoir detailing the author's friendship with the reclusive Harper Lee;
as well
as our Top Pick in Fiction, California by Edan Lepucki, a gripping novel about a couple's struggle to adapt in a post-apocalyptic world.
Just
as important is picking a strong
title for your
memoir.
As far as Hollywood adventures are concerned, I think the title of Linda Obst's Tinseltown memoir says it all: «Hello, He Lied.&raqu
As far
as Hollywood adventures are concerned, I think the title of Linda Obst's Tinseltown memoir says it all: «Hello, He Lied.&raqu
as Hollywood adventures are concerned, I think the
title of Linda Obst's Tinseltown
memoir says it all: «Hello, He Lied.»
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.
«Being geniuses together» (to borrow the
title of Robert McAlmon's 1938
memoir of American - expat literary life in 1920s Paris) seems just
as misleading
as depicting genius
as a solo act.
Das and Sharma have included painting, sculpture and film works by 16 artists, including Krishna and Judy Blum Reddy, Nirode Mazumdar (from whose
memoir the show gets its
title), Zarina Hashmi, Akbar Padamsee, and even film editor Lila Lakshmanan, who worked with Jean - Luc Godard for over nearly a decade on some of his most famous films, such
as À bout de soufflé (Breathless, 1960) and, Une femme est une femme (A Woman is a Woman, 1961).