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NEW BLOG POST: My Audiobook Adventures - giving my thoughts/reviews on some of the books that I’ve listened to this year:
https://www.jkrowbory.co.uk/2025/04/my-audiobook-adventures-8/
What have you been reading recently? Any recommendations?
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NEW RELEASE!
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
A young boy comes of age in the idyllic English countryside just before the Great War tears Europe apart. #autobiography #fiction #ebook
Find it here: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/siegfried-sassoon/memoirs-of-a-foxhunting-man
In The Way of the #Hermit, Ken Smith offers a profoundly #human portrait of #solitude—not the performative kind, but the hard-earned, bone-deep kind that comes from living off-grid in the #Scottish #Highlands for over 40 years. #BookReview #Books #introvert #introversion #nature #Scotland #Biography #Autobiography #Philosophy
http://contentcatnip.com/2025/04/19/book-review-the-way-of-the-hermit-by-ken-smith/
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times by Howard Zinn, 2002
By any standards, Howard Zinn has led a remarkable life as teacher, writer, and social activist, a life in which those three categories are viewed not as compartmentalized tasks but as part of a unified identity.
NENEH CHERRY’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY weaves a fascinating tapestry from her distinctive life: her joys (love, family, friends, art, nature) and her sorrows (losses, deep grief, addiction). Like a heart-to-heart with your coolest friend. B PLUS
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-thousand-threads-neneh-cherry/1144788315?ean=9781982161040
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Just finished Eric Idols autobiography and it's a bit like the 'Which Was Nice' character from The Fast Show, he talks of all his jet setting holidays with his celebrity friends. I'm very jealous #ericidol #montypython #autobiography #bookclub #bookstodon
Margaret Atwood has written a memoir, which will be out on Nov. 4. Why? "My publishers made me do it," the Canadian novelist told @Vogue in a new interview about the book. "When they first proposed it, I said, ‘Oh, that would be so boring.’ I mean, I wrote a book, I wrote another book, I wrote another book…Who’s going to read that?” Here's more on "Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts," plus Atwood's thoughts on what makes a good biography, "The Handmaid's Tale" and its pertinence, and Trump's fixation with making Canada the 51st U.S. state. "I think it’s lovely that the United States has recognized its mistake and wishes to join Canada so they can have a king,” Atwood says, “but it wouldn’t be the 51st state. It would be 10 new states and two territories, which would mean that the Republicans would never get elected …
Margaret Atwood has written a memoir, which will be out on Nov. 4. Why? "My publishers made me do it," the Canadian novelist told @Vogue in a new interview about the book. "When they first proposed it, I said, ‘Oh, that would be so boring.’ I mean, I wrote a book, I wrote another book, I wrote another book…Who’s going to read that?” Here's more on "Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts," plus Atwood's thoughts on what makes a good biography, "The Handmaid's Tale" and its pertinence, and Trump's fixation with making Canada the 51st U.S. state. "I think it’s lovely that the United States has recognized its mistake and wishes to join Canada so they can have a king,” Atwood says, “but it wouldn’t be the 51st state. It would be 10 new states and two territories, which would mean that the Republicans would never get elected again. So he’s welcome to try.”
#MargaretAtwood #Memoir #Books @bookstodon #Autobiography #Canada #CanLit
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BLACK ACTIVIST Russell “Maroon” Shoatz is an extraordinary look into the struggle for liberation as it played out on the streets, sometimes through violence, and for decades in prison cells. A tough and timely read. SOLID A
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/i-am-maroon-russell-shoatz/1144963434?ean=9781645030492
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NEW RELEASE! Geronimo’s Story of His Life by Geronimo
The Apache war chief Geronimo recounts the story of his life, offering a fascinating window into the lifestyle, beliefs, and motivations of one of the most recognizable figures in the history of the western U.S. #autobiography
Find a CC0 copy here: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/geronimo/geronimos-story-of-his-life
Why David Sedaris might not be a good person, except when he's on tour
By Hannah Story
The American author is known for spending up to 10-and-a-half hours signing books for fans when he's on tour. He returns to Australia next month.
#Books #Comedy #Author #NonFiction #Autobiography #ArtsCultureandEntertainment #Events #HannahStory
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!
#books #livres #Bookstodon #bookshops #librairies #biography #politics #AMissMerkelMystery #DavidSafier #AngelaMerkel #politique #autobiography
'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.
#AwardsandPrizes #Books #ArtsCultureandEntertainment #Author #NonFiction #Autobiography #ClimateChange #HannahStory
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.
#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
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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