The Bookworm Challenge discussion

Read up to five autobiographies, biographies or memoirs.

Connie's Bios and Memoirs:
Completed:

1)Precious Cargo: My Year of Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077 by Craig Davidson 10/01/18 (a wonderful book. I discovered it because it is on the Canada Reads 2018 list.) now on shortlist
2)Forgiveness by Mark Sakamoto 13/01/18 (another wonderful book from the Canada Reads long List) now on shortlist
3)Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan E. Coyote 02/02/18 (also on the Canada Reads longlist)
4)Out Standing in the Field by Sandra Perron 12/02/18 (another Canada Reads book)
5)Have a Little Faith: a True Story by Mitch Albom 23/04/18 audio version read by the author - excellent!

Rhonda's Bios and Memoirs:

**COMPLETE**

1. Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir of Appalachia by Jennifer McGaha ⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. The Liars' Club by Mary Karr ⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4. Spinning by Tillie Walden ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5. Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Wanda's Bios and Memoirs:

1. Seriously... I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres
2. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa
3. My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall
4. A Family Farm in Tuscany: Recipes and Stories from Fattoria Poggio Alloro by Sarah Fioroni
5. Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living by Paul Collins

Linda's Bios and Memoirs:

1. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
2. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
3. King Remembered by Schalke and McPhee
4. My Story by Elizabeth Smart
5. Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir of Appalachia by Jennifer McGaha

Stephanie's Bios and Memoirs:

1 - Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson
2 - The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
3 - Yes Please by Amy Poehler
4 - Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe
5 - Seriously... I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres

Emily’s Bios and Memoirs:

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Sharon's Bios and Memoirs:

1. Bossypants by Tina Fey
2. The Million Dollar Mermaid Esther Williams
3. Same Kind of Different as Me: a modern-day slave, an international art dealer, and the unlikely woman who bound them together
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*COMPLETE*

Michael's Bios and Memoirs:
1. John Quincy Adams by Harlow Giles Unger
2. Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government by Mike Lee
3. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
4. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned by Michael J. Fox
5. Korea's Syngman Rhee: An Unauthorized Portrait by Richard C. Allen

Ruth's Bios and Memoirs

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Patty’s Bios & Memoirs:
1. Day - 1/1/18
2. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced - 3/11/18
3. Things I've Been Silent About: Memories - 12/26/18
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Kaitlin's Bios & Memoirs:
1. Pimp: The Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim
2.Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
3.The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
4.Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
5.My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf

Martha's Bios and Memoirs
1. My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst, 12th Feb 18
2. The Stranger on the Bridge: My Journey from Despair to Hope, 5th May 18
3. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, 9th May 18
4. This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare, 22nd May 18
5. Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son by Lesley-Ann Brown, 24th June 18

Rebecca's Bios and Memoirs:

1. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
2. The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
3. Fire on the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women. Covered a number of women but focused on one, so I'll call it bio.
4. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
5. Braving It: A Father, a Daughter, and an Unforgettable Journey Into the Alaskan Wild by James Campbell

Jody's Bios and Memoirs:

1. You're Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day
2. Yes Please by Amy Poehler
3. If You Ask Me by Betty White
4. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson
5. Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculée Ilibagiza

1. Task Force Black: The Explosive True Story of the SAS and the Secret War in Iraq
2. Catching a Serial Killer: My hunt for serial killer Christopher Halliwell and a confession that changed my life
3. Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
4. HHhH
5. Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across North America

Ann-Marie´s Bio & Memoirs
COMPLETED!
1-C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by Alister E McGrath (read feb)
2-Det perfekta skottet av Olavi Blomfjord (read feb)
3- Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman (read march)
4-Padre Pio Under Investigation: The Secret Vatican Files by Fransesco Casyelli (read march)
5-Sowing: An Autobiography of the Years 1880 to 1904 by Leonard Woolf

***COMPLETE***

Michelle's Bio and Memoirs
1. Me Talk Pretty One Day
2. I Was Told There'd Be Cake
3. Napoleon
4. Angela's Ashes
5. Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

1. I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks -Gina Sheridan 5/20/18
2. Backcountry Lawman: True Stories from a Florida Game Warden by Bob H. Lee completed 3/16/18
3. Name All the Animals: A Memoir -Alison Smith Completed 3/3/18
4. Lab Girl - Hope Jahren completed 3/16/18
5. My life in orange : growing up with the guru - Tim Guest 3/18
6. The last days of Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Donald Goddard
7. Shrill : notes from a loud woman - Lindy West -abandoned
8. When Breathe Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi, 5/5/18
9. The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying -Nina Riggs 5/6/18
10. You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) - Felicia Day
11. The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts -Tessa Fontaine 5-10-18
12. The Prodigal Comes Home: My Story of Failure and God's Story of Redemption - Michael English 4/17/18
13. Educated: a memoir - Tara Westover 5/22/18

Bios and memoirs:
1) Girl Hearts Girl

Fatima's Bios & Memoirs:
1. Caligula: A Biography by Aloys Winterling
2. The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor Nero and His City by Stephen Dando-Collins
this books covers Nero, how he came to power and what happened after with a slight focus on the fire so I'm cataloging it here. Let me know if you disagree.
3. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
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Jennifer's Bios & Memoirs

1. Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (04/04/18)
2. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey (03/11/18)
3. Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker (02/26/18)
4. A House in the Sky: A Memoir by Amanda Lindhout (04/15/18)
5. We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby (04/29/18)

Emilies bios and memoirs
1. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
2. Birds, Beasts and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
3. The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell
4. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel

Kate's bios and memoirs:
1. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance (this one lived up to the hype)
2. The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights and Other Appreciations by John McCain

Kersten's Bios and Memoirs:

1. Just Another Kid by Torey L. Hayden
2. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
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Meera's Bios and Memoirs:

1. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah 4/6
2. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon 3/20
3.Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson 5/30
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Jello’s Bios and Memoirs
1. I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Caitlin Alifirenka &

Complete!

Martha's Bios and Memoirs
1. My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst, 12th Feb 18
2. The Stranger on the Bridge: My Journey from Despair to Hope, 5th May 18
3. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, 9th May 18
4. This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare, 22nd May 18
5. Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son by Lesley-Ann Brown, 24th June 18

1. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
2. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
3. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
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Cathy's Bios and Memoirs

1. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

1) I'm On an Airplane by Parker Posey
2) Just Kids by Patti Smith
3) Role Models by John Waters
4) Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
5) Widow Basquiat, A Love Story by Jennifer Clement