[stylist] the problem with memoirs

[Ashley Bramlett]

Vejas,
A memoir isn't supposed to tell events in chronicalogical order. if you want 
that read an autobiography.
Memoirs will focus on one part of a person's life.

-----Original Message----- 
From: vejas
Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 7:05 PM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: [stylist] the problem with memoirs

Hi,
As you know I just finished a memoir.  Now I'm reading another
one called A Girl named Zippy.  I don't love it yet, but I don't
hate it either.
Now, this is what I think about memoirs.  I believe that they are
interesting, as they chronicle a person's life.  However, I am
more interested in a persns' childhood than adulthood.
Sometimes, especially in this one book I read, the memoir doesn't
easily walk the person through their life.  What I mean is, they
might talk about when they're 8, then when they're 10 and then go
back to when they're 8.  What's the difference between a memoir
and an autobiography?

For once I actually know what book I'm going to read after this.
As you know, there's this  play, "Cheaper by the Dozen", which
concerns a family of 12 kids.  And there's a book about it, which
interests me.  So I'm reading it next.
What do you think of memoirs?
Vejas

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