Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/11/2019
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Location
Prairie Path Books
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Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports From My Life With Autism
by Temple Grandin
Whenever Jenny and I hear folks saying “I cannot even imagine that …” we as readers know that actually you can begin to understand almost anything, especially if an amazing storyteller takes you by the hand along her way. Last winter I began to sort of understand cannabalism after reading Nathanial Philbrick’s “In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.” You guys, I’m not kidding—Philbrick is so good he took me there. So, the New York Times published their 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years,* and that got me and Jen noodling: Should we do a Morning Memoir book club, but only with Manageable-in-Length Memoirs (meaning with one exception only 200-ish pages), all by women from diverse backgrounds written over the last five decades? Read more