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Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 23 Jul 24

I came across this title in an article I read recently. It seems there are very few first-hand accounts from any of the millions of men, women and children who were enslaved in America in times gone by. In most states, slaves were...

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Peelers and arranged marriages

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Jun 24

I’ve been reading a book by Peig Sayers. It’s her autobiography, entitled 'Peig', and translated into English from Gaelic by Bryan MacMahon. Peig was born in 1873. She was born on the Dingle Peninsula but spent forty years on...

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Do you have good typing skills?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Mar 24

The photo has nothing to do with the text. Vince is reading the autobiography of Malcolm Turnbull, one of our former prime ministers. Vince keeps telling me bits and pieces from the book. The machinations of a political party...

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A strange book

Fleur @Fleura (35034) • United Kingdom 7 Feb 23

My partner bought me this book as a birthday present; he knows I enjoy travel writing and I used to ride horses so it seemed a perfect fit – horseback adventure in a country I’ve never visited. Well I did quite enjoy reading it...

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Why would you do this?

Fleur @Fleura (35034) • United Kingdom 11 Jan 23

I know I’m only one of millions of people asking the same question, but seriously, why? Why would you reveal the excruciatingly embarrassing details from your past life? I mean yes it is the kind of thing you might expect from...

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Do you still read books?

rosyrose @vickyrose (2236) • Cooma, Australia 29 Oct 22

I do. I like the hard copies too. Nowadays, I am interested in reading non fiction, biographies, memoirs and auto biographies. I hardly buy books at the bookshop. I usually borrow them at our local library. I visited the library...

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Me and my first guitar- autobiography

Rachael Alice @lifecoachjerusalem (1529) • Israel 22 Sep 22

Me and my first guitar. My family had decided to move from snowy Upstate Syracuse New York to Sunny Los Angeles. My dad had always wanted to drive across the country, to sight see before he started his new job in Torrance...

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Dressed to Heal.

Yuleima Gutierrez @YuleimaVzla (1857) • Maracaibo, Venezuela 6 Aug 21

This is the title of a book that I was reading this weekend on my break that I took after having told you my friends from MyLote that I suffered from oxygen deprivation, as a consequence to the brain I decided to take a few days...

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Book Review: Alex Trebek The Answer Is...

patgalca @patgalca (18481) • Orangeville, Ontario 14 Jun 21

Alex Trebek reflects on his life in this last writing before his passing last year. Each "chapter" is short, like little anecdotes, with lots of photographs sprinkled within the book. I enjoyed reading about the behind-the-scenes...

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On Correcting Someone

Raine38 @Raine38 (12387) • United States 1 Jul 19

Do you take being corrected as a positive or a negative experience? If the delivery of the correction was done in private and with tact, do you welcome it, or shun it? I have a friend who is an aspiring writer. She wants to...

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Porcospino @Porcospino (31365) • Denmark 5 Apr 19

Some time ago I read an autobiography. I wanted to read it because I know the author. He is not one of my friends, but I have met him because he works on the island where I used to live. He works in a group home for people with...

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Book Review - Paramahansa Yogananda - Autobiography Of A Yogi.

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 16 Mar 18

1946 - Spoiler alerts How can a book be rubbish and brilliant at the same time? This one achieves it. Yogananda cornered the market in telling tall stories with a straight face, and making people swallow them. The plot of this...

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Would you still publish?

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 27 Jan 18

I have a great aunt (as in the literal relation, not that she is great. Not that she isn't either, but you know) who published a book recently. I don't think she has done anything in the way of advertising it, other than posting...

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Do you have HSAM?

Carol Brown @blitzfrick (2890) • United States 12 Apr 17

April 12, 2017 I got interested in this subject from a Tweet. Someone posted a link to a This American Life program called "In Defense of Ignorance". Act 3 of the program was about a person with highly superior...

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Book review: "All Those Moments..." Rutger Hauer Autobiography

Faye @FayeHazel (40230) • United States 2 Mar 17

A book a recently enjoyed was Rutger Hauer's autobiography "All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners". Rutger Hauer is a Dutch actor who is, perhaps, most famous for being in one of my...

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Disorganized Personality

Susan @HazySue (39265) • Gouverneur, New York 8 Aug 16

As I read a comment by @celticeagle on one of my posts it brought to my mind how I learned about meditation. Years ago I took a Disorganized Personality class in college an had a very unusual professor. He felt that we all...

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How much would you pay for a book?

Margarita @Meramar (2695) 5 Aug 16

Recently, I found a book on Internet which caught immediately my attention. It's an autobiography about a musician called Herbert Thomas Mandl. Maybe, someone asks why it caught my attention. Well, he was born in Bratislava,...

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Who'd be a Filmstar!

Just an Ordinary Owl? @owlwings (43897) • Cambridge, England 17 May 16

Everyone, it has been said, has a story in them somewhere! If you were making a movie based on your life, what particular episode or passage would you choose? Would you play yourself or would you have an actor play your part?...

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A wonderful thing has happened

Carol Brown @blitzfrick (2890) • United States 5 Apr 16

March 4, 2016 I've been given a book written by my brother. It's an autobiography. The backstory is that I was adopted at age 18months and thus separated from my brother and sister. My brother, sister and I reconnected when I was...

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An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory

John Welford @indexer (4852) • Leicester, England 28 Sep 15

That's a quotation from Franklin P Jones, a well-known American wit who died in 1980. That strikes me as very true - and possibly a good reason for reading biography rather than autobiography! On the other hand, it is often...

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