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I just finished Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy by Dani Shapiro.
I started it yesterday and stayed up all night to finish it. It's that good.
I have yet to read one of hers that isn't good, although I understand her most recent is lacking.
This is an autobiography of a few years in her life. I even looked up some of the people she mentions in the book and there they are clear as day in wiki and google. The author relates some situations in her 20s that had me saying out loud "What were you thinking?" It's a very brave book and I appreciate the fact that she shares all the things that she presents to the reader.
I thank Dawn of DandJ fame for telling me about this author.
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I just finished Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy by Dani Shapiro.
I started it yesterday and stayed up all night to finish it. It's that good.
I have yet to read one of hers that isn't good, although I understand her most recent is lacking.
This is an autobiography of a few years in her life. I even looked up some of the people she mentions in the book and there they are clear as day in wiki and google. The author relates some situations in her 20s that had me saying out loud "What were you thinking?" It's a very brave book and I appreciate the fact that she shares all the things that she presents to the reader.
I thank Dawn of DandJ fame for telling me about this author.
Whenever I read her non-fiction (although her most recent NF doesn't apply), all throughout it, I'd be saying to myself, "No, no, no. She HAD to have made this up. There's no way that this could happen. Or this. Or that."
I'm glad that you're enjoying her work as much as I did. You might try Devotion (her latest), but I think that you'll agree with me, after you've read all her others, that the latest is just average.
Have you read ALL of her books? If not, you've got some treats left.
I don't plan to read Playing with Fire and Picturing the Wreck because they are the same subject matter with different character names as Slow Motion.
I'm afraid that Devotion with disappoint me. I've read all the others and really enjoyed all of them. Thanks again.
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Oh, I did find out that the character, Lenny Klein, was a "stage" name for attorney Harvey D. Myerson, who was sentenced to 70 months in prison for tax evasion and mail fraud. This was around 1995. So, he's probably out now.
Big-time concentration problems abound. I started a few books, got part way through them, was enjoying them, then lost interest. I didn't lose interest to the point that the books are done deals, though -- I'll have to go back to them at some point, and start them again.
Now I'm reading Life of Pi. I'm at approx. page 70 and am enjoying it. I hope that it doesn't meet the same fate as the past few books that I've tried.
It's ironic that I'm 10 years late to Life of Pi. The book won the Man Booker Prize, which is usually an invitation for me to buy the book. But more than that, the author lives in Montreal -- where I'm originally from -- so I really *should* have read it. When I lived in Montreal, many of my friends told me how good it is, but the synopsis had no appeal for me. I guess I'm a late bloomer.
I was blown away by The Life of Pi. I didn't expect to like it but it engaged me with the very first page. However, I would really like to know what you think of the ending when you've finished the book. I don't want to post any spoilers.
Big-time concentration problems abound. I started a few books, got part way through them, was enjoying them, then lost interest. I didn't lose interest to the point that the books are done deals, though -- I'll have to go back to them at some point, and start them again.
I'm having this problem as well; I have at least 10 books in my possession and so far the last four I've not made it to the third chapter. I thought "The Sisters" by Poppy Addams, was going to be an engrowsing read. Probably not the best choice to take along to the beach; the sounds of the waves were a much bigger draw, I was way more capivated by the ocean. I might try to pick up where I left off or just let this one go. Nicolas Sparks "The Lucky One", probably would have been better to take along for the beach.
I'm deffinately going to add to my list of must read, some of the titles others here have recently mentioned.
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Was Newt Gingrich the co-author of TO TRY MEN's SOULS? I just finished the one by him about George Washington's winter at Valley Forge. It gave me an even greater appreciation for the sacrifices that our men in the armed forces suffered. Gingrich and his coauther did a very good job on that one.
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Yes it is.
It's written in the same manner, but deals with the lead up to the Battle of Trenton.
I just finished Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy by Dani Shapiro.
I started it yesterday and stayed up all night to finish it. It's that good.
I have yet to read one of hers that isn't good, although I understand her most recent is lacking.
This is an autobiography of a few years in her life. I even looked up some of the people she mentions in the book and there they are clear as day in wiki and google. The author relates some situations in her 20s that had me saying out loud "What were you thinking?" It's a very brave book and I appreciate the fact that she shares all the things that she presents to the reader.
I thank Dawn of DandJ fame for telling me about this author.
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Originally Posted by DandJ
Whenever I read her non-fiction (although her most recent NF doesn't apply), all throughout it, I'd be saying to myself, "No, no, no. She HAD to have made this up. There's no way that this could happen. Or this. Or that."
I'm glad that you're enjoying her work as much as I did. You might try Devotion (her latest), but I think that you'll agree with me, after you've read all her others, that the latest is just average.
Have you read ALL of her books? If not, you've got some treats left.
This is my first attempt at a multi-quote - but who is this writer? What theme are her memoirs about that there are so many? What is her tragic life? I've never heard of her.
Location: Montreal -> CT -> MA -> Montreal -> Ottawa
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This is my first attempt at a multi-quote - but who is this writer? What theme are her memoirs about that there are so many? What is her tragic life? I've never heard of her.
Her name is Dani Shapiro.
Only some of her work is memoir. The rest is fiction. It is ALL brilliant. (Well, except for the last, Devotion, which I could have passed on.)
This is my first attempt at a multi-quote - but who is this writer? What theme are her memoirs about that there are so many? What is her tragic life? I've never heard of her.
I had never heard of her either until I read about her in this forum.
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