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Happy March! Spring is right around the corner, and it’s time for another installment of WCCLS Reads MORE! This March, we are focusing on memoirs written by women. Below you’ll find a list of some of our favorite suggestions, or choose your own and let us know what you’re reading on Facebook or Twitter – and be sure to tag your posts with #wcclsreadsMORE. You can also find and contribute reviews at reads.wccls.org/more. Or if you prefer, simply read along at home. Happy reading! |
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Selections for March - Memoirs by women
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The Chronology of Water : a Memoir by Lidia YuknavitchThe author recounts how she lost a promising career as a swimmer to addiction, turned to high-risk sexual activities, and eventually got her life back through her writing and teaching and her new family.
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The Light of the World : a Memoir by Elizabeth AlexanderThe acclaimed poet reflects with gratitude on her life after the sudden death of her husband, discussing her personal quest for meaning and understanding, her renewed devotion to her teenage sons, and meditating on the blessings of love and family.
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Wave by Sonali DeraniyagalaA memoir of the author's experiences as a survivor of the 2004 tsunami that killed her parents, husband, and two young sons recounts her struggles with profound grief and survivor's guilt and her gradual steps toward healing.
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Forgetting to Be Afraid : A Memoir by Wendy DavisA deeply personal memoir by the 2014 Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate traces her upbringing by a single-mom high school dropout, her early divorce, her Harvard Law School education and the early political achievements that led to her successful 2008 election to the Texas Senate.
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Blackout : Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah HepolaIn an unflinchingly honest memoir that is both hilarious and heartbreaking, the author shares her journey to sobriety, a new adventure she never wanted, after her drinking—which she once believed gave her confidence, intimacy and creativity—led to blackouts that drained her spirit and destroyed her life. Reading-group guide available.
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Girl in a Band by Kim GordonA founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story—a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence and as one of the first women of rock and roll.
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Negroland : a Memoir by Margo JeffersonA highly personal meditation on race, sex and American culture by the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic traces her upbringing and education in upper-class African-American circles against a backdrop of the Civil Rights era and its contradictory aftermath.
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Featured review on February's theme from a fellow reader!
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Thank you for submitting your book recommendations at reads.wccls.org! Here is a review for one of last month's featured novels by African American authors: |
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Washington County Cooperative Library Services
Washington County
Hillsboro, Oregon 97124
503-846-3222
www.wccls.org |
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