Color Me In
reviewdate:
Apr 30 2019
isn:
9780525578239
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Trouble
reviewdate:
Sep 26 2018
isn:
9780385530385
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Don't Touch
reviewdate:
Apr 17 2017
isn:
9780062220950
Girl Defective
reviewdate:
Feb 1 2016
isn:
9781442497603
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Heavy Hangs the Head
The intro to Taryn Hipp's "memoir novella" begins, "The first time I decided to write my story of sobriety, I was somewhere around two years sober. I put my story down on paper, copied it and shared it with strangers and friends, even my family." I love that "even my family." It's such a zinester thing to say and feel. I also love that she writes toward the end of the intro "I am a zine maker, not a book writer, and this is a perfect bound zine as much as it is a book." Heavy Hangs the Head does read like an extended-play zine, rather than like a short memoir/memoirvella, but the package is for sure a full-fledged book. Sage of Sweet Candy did a beautiful job with the production and publishing.
reviewdate:
Sep 6 2013
isn:
978-0-9897098-0-4
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Going in Circles
This book is kind of light and chick-litish, but it’s about women’s roller derby, so it’s at least a little bit awesome. What separates it from typical chick-lit is that while there’s definitely a dude involved, it’s really about not getting the guy.
reviewdate:
Sep 1 2011
isn:
978-1-4165-0386-6
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Manhattan, When I Was Young
Cantwell’s memoir begins after she graduates from Connecticut College 1953 and moves to New York City to be a writer. She is a Catholic from a WASPy town in Rhode Island, but passes well enough. Her mother is not impressed when she marries a Jew fairly soon after graduating. But she’d slept with him, what could she do? I don’t mean to mock. On the outside Cantwell isn’t someone I can relate to, but the quality of her writing voice really got me, both its competence and its appeal, if that makes sense. It seems like the better the writing I’m reviewing the worse my own gets.
reviewdate:
Aug 10 2011
isn:
0-395-7441-5