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Bookish News: Mark Twain’s Autobiography

May 25, 2010 – 1:54 pm

Read some pretty interesting news yesterday.  I guess that during his lifetime, Mark Twain wrote a giant mass of an autobiography… something like 5,000 pages.  He instructed that they be sealed in a box for 100 years following his death and then released to the public.  It’s crazy to me that they’ve been sitting there [...]

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Review: The Things They Carried

March 31, 2010 – 7:49 am

The Book: The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien
The Story: In the course of the book, Tim O’Brien says several times that the “truth” of things that happened in Vietnam and the “stories” that people tell, while they may contradict, are both still true.  On the first page of this book, he calls it a [...]

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Review: Cash

March 18, 2010 – 2:08 pm

The Book: Cash: The Autobiography of Johnny Cash, by Johnny Cash
The Story: This is the story of Johnny Cash told by the man himself.  While it isn’t exactly set up chronologically, he still includes stories from his childhood right up through 1997 when this book was originally published.
In this book, Johnny Cash tells the truth [...]

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Review: The Complete Persepolis

December 8, 2009 – 9:26 am

The Book: The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
The Story: This is an autobiographical graphic novel of a teenage girl growing up in Iran during the revolution of ‘79.  There was a lot about death and war and the veil, and tough stuff, but there were also big chunks about crushes, normal teenage rebellion, secret parties [...]

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