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Lee

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TheEdinburghBookshop

We have a limited supply of signed editions of Freedom, the autobiography from renowned stateswoman Angela Merkel...

... We also have David Safier's A Miss Merkel Mystery: Murder in the Castle! An ideal double bill!

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ABC Feeds

'All of us are complicit': Richard Flanagan declines $97,000 in prize money due to fossil fuel investment
By Hannah Story

Richard Flanagan has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, but he's declined to accept the prize money until its sponsors make a plan to divest from fossil fuels.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-20/richard-flanagan-baillie-gifford-prize-for-non-fiction/104623462

#AwardsandPrizes #Books #ArtsCultureandEntertainment #Author #NonFiction #Autobiography #ClimateChange #HannahStory

ABC Feeds

Australian author Richard Flanagan rejects $97,000 in prize money due to fossil fuel investment
By Hannah Story

Richard Flanagan has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, but he's declined to accept the prize money until its sponsors make a plan to divest from fossil fuels.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-20/richard-flanagan-baillie-gifford-prize-for-non-fiction/104623462

#AwardsandPrizes #Books #ArtsCultureandEntertainment #Author #NonFiction #Autobiography #ClimateChange #HannahStory

2 new books from #Australia have arrived!
"Still Alive" is Safdar Ahmed's multi-award winning #graphicnovel / graphic #non-fiction about Sydney's Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, combining #journalism, #history & #autobiography

#AustralianLiterature #AustralianStudies

The graphic novel "Still Alive" on a lime-green chair

earthling

A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter, 2015

Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts.

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At ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds detail and emotion about his youth in rural Georgia that he described in his magnificent An Hour Before Daylight. He writes about racism and the isolation of the Carters. He describes the brutality of the hazing regimen at Annapolis, and how he nearly lost his life twice serving on submarines and his amazing interview with Admiral Rickover. He describes the profound influence his mother had on him, and how he admired his father even though he didn’t emulate him. He admits that he decided to quit the Navy and later enter politics without consulting his wife, Rosalynn, and how appalled he is in retrospect.
In A Full Life, Carter tells what he is proud of and what he might do differently. He discusses his regret at losing his re-election, but how he and Rosalynn pushed on and made a new life and second and third rewarding careers. He is frank about the presidents who have succeeded him, world leaders, and his passions for the causes he cares most about, particularly the condition of women and the deprived people of the developing world.
This is a wise and moving look back from this remarkable man. Jimmy Carter has lived one of our great American lives—from rural obscurity to world fame, universal respect, and contentment. A Full Life is an extraordinary read.

JuneSim63

"The last time I was on stage was at a National Theatre gala two or three years ago. Richard Griffiths had died and I played Hector in The History Boys. And I was so nervous. Helen Mirren was backstage and I told her how scared I was of the audience and she said, ‘Fuck ‘em’. I wished I’d been given that advice much earlier.”

Great interview with Alan Bennett at 90.

#AlanBennett #Theatre #Literature #Autobiography #Books

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/02/alan-bennett-at-90-what-will-people-think-i-dont-care-any-more

Mike Christie

If you enjoy Ina Garten’s work, "Be Ready When the Luck Happens" is a must-read (or listen).

#books #BookReview #bookstadon #AudioBook #autobiography #memoir #cooking #InaGarten #FoodNetwork

http://mypointbeing.com/2024/11/01/be-ready-when-the-luck-happens/

earthling

The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, 20022

Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901) was a leading figure in the cultural revolution that transformed Japan from an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged player in the modern world. He translated a wide range of Western works and adapted them to Japanese needs, inventing a colorful prose style close to the vernacular.

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He also authored many books, which were critical in introducing the powerful but alien culture of the West to the Japanese. Only by adopting the strengths and virtues of the West, he argued, could Japan maintain its independence despite the "disease" of foreign relations.
Dictated by Fukuzawa in 1897, this autobiography offers a vivid portrait of the intellectual's life story and a rare look inside the formation of a new Japan. Starting with his childhood in a small castle town as a member of the lower samurai class, Fukuzawa recounts in great detail his adventures as a student learning Dutch, as a traveler bound for America, and as a participant in the tumultuous politics of the pre-Restoration era. Particularly notable is Fukuzawa's ability to view the new Japan from both the perspective of the West and that of the old Japan in which he had been raised. While a strong advocate for the new civilization, he was always aware of its roots in the old.

GeorgeLThomas

Book Review: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
#ReaderCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookCommunity #Reading #Books #BookReview #Review #Friends #MatthewPerry #Autobiography #Memoir

http://georgelthomas.com/2024/10/11/book-review-friends-lovers-and-the-big-terrible-thing-by-matthew-perry/

Julia S.

FROM HER TEENAGE ARRANGED MARRIAGE in a high-demand Hasidic Jewish community to her life now as a lesbian mom with a doctorate, a woman looks at her transformations through the years with clarity and deep compassion. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kissing-girls-on-shabbat-sara-glass/1144226658?ean=9781668031216

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Eryck Gu⸸⸸eЯaL

#SNRK are making an #autobiography #NDN #CBC TV show!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3NKH-YPhbs

#Indigenous #rezrap #hiphop

Julia S.

“MEKONG DELTA BLUESMAN” Son Vo tells the story of his life both offstage and on. From an early childhood in Saigon to a hardscrabble life in Maine to discovering his gift for music, Vo relates some wild adventures in a voice full of warmth and hope. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tales-of-the-mekong-delta-bluesman-son-hoang-vo/1144215403?ean=9798868916854

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Dorothy Bishop

brilliant video by Sabine Hossenfelder about her personal experiences in science - should be required viewing by all science funders
https://www.youtube.com/embed/LKiBlGDfRU8
#WomenInScience #autobiography #ScienceCareers #ScienceFunding

Paul Matthews

More than 5 stars if possible please to The Years by Annie Ernaux. What a beautiful reflection on the passing of time, and our relationship to social conventions and world events.

#amreading #autobiography #sociology #history

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d4963db7-777d-4f7d-bc04-498cabb86c09