Memoirs
Remember blogging? Me neither. I’m going to ease back into it by sharing a list of all the memoirs I’ve ever read. I’m just not ready to get into coronavirus and quarantine, anxiety and fear. These days, many people are spending quality time with books. I read nonfiction almost exclusively, and memoirs are my favorite sub-genre. I like reading people’s real experiences, especially regular folks who lived through some extraordinary event. I am currently reading Out of the Silence: After the Crash , a book about the Andes plane crash in 1972 that I only vaguely knew about. (I’m also listening to books by Jen Hatmaker and Barbara Brown Taylor .) A fuzzy line separates some nonfiction books from the memoir category. Some authors illustrate their arguments and essays so heavily with personal anecdotes that after reading two or three of their books, you feel like their next-door neighbor; but any single title of theirs would not count as a memoir. Another blurry category is those “I