Tag: Memoir

Review: Waiting to Be Heard

June 19, 2013 Whitney Review 10 Comments
Review: Waiting to Be Heard

First and foremost, I would like to note that I checked out Waiting to Be Heard from the library.  I did not buy or receive a free copy, but I did read the book. Why the disclaimer?  Because anything negative said about Waiting to Be Heard (particularly on Amazon) gets bombarded with accusations and automatically […]

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Review: Angela’s Ashes

June 2, 2011 Whitney Review 6 Comments
Review: Angela’s Ashes

Frank McCourt’s Memoir focuses on his childhood  living in Ireland during the 1930s.  His father drinks away the dole money and has Frank and his brothers swearing to die for Ireland every night, because of this, the McCourts live in poverty living on borrowed time and money and the goodness of the St. Vincent de […]

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Review: The White Masai

May 24, 2011 Whitney Review 3 Comments
Review: The White Masai

While on Safari with her then boyfriend, Corinne Hofmann glimpses a  Samburu Warrior, Lketinga and it is love at first sight.  She drops everything in her home of Switzerland and spends the next several months stocking him around Kenya.  Despite a drastic change in living conditions and neither speaking the same language, using broken English […]

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Review: Devil In The Details

January 1, 2011 Whitney Review 2 Comments
Review: Devil In The Details

Quirky yes, but Devil in the Details was also a little manic (which explains the OCD).  I thought the novel was more like a series of short stories or a vignette of her childhood.  To me it felt all very disjointed, one moment she was three and the next thirteen, I never felt a smooth […]

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