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ד-פּאַקס"Whenever the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/playwright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#playwright</a> Samantha Ellis tries to define her heritage to people, she often finds them correcting her. “So many times I’ve said I’m an <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Iraqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iraqi</a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jew</a> and been… told ‘you mean you’re mixed’ or ‘which parent is which?’ or just ‘how weird’,” she writes in her richly detailed <a href="https://babka.social/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a>, in which she explores the complex, centuries-old history of the Iraqi-<a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jewish</a> community and its vanishing language, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Judeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Judeo</a>-Iraqi <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arabic</a>.The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish <a href="https://babka.social/tags/refugees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#refugees</a> who came separately to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#London</a> with their families during periods of persecution for the community in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Baghdad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Baghdad</a>, Ellis is moved to seek out <a href="https://babka.social/tags/stories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stories</a>, expressions and objects that will fill some of the gaps in that <a href="https://babka.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> when she realises that she lacks the vocabulary to pass on the language of her childhood to her own young son."<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/06/chopping-onions-on-my-heart-by-samantha-ellis-review-an-iraqi-jews-celebration-of-an-endangered-culture" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/06/chopping-onions-on-my-heart-by-samantha-ellis-review-an-iraqi-jews-celebration-of-an-endangered-culture</a>

KristieA view and a thank you! While I'm not ready to be in front of the camera, here's a sincere thank you from behind it. If you like Scottish landscapes, Scottish accents, and gratitude, you'll enjoy this. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DII51K9CMcs/?igsh=MXhudTFvdmo4ZGF5Nw==" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/reel/DII51K9CMcs/?igsh=MXhudTFvdmo4ZGF5Nw==</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DebutAuthor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DebutAuthor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Memoir</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScottishBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScottishBooks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WorkingClassWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorkingClassWriters</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MixedRaceWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MixedRaceWriters</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NeurodivergentWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeurodivergentWriters</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SmallPressPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallPressPublishing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BooksOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BooksOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PlaceWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlaceWriting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DrystoneWalling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DrystoneWalling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotland</a>

KristieYesterday it was the memoirs page. Today my book’s top of Bookshop. org’s *main* Biography & Memoir list. (right next to Jenni Fagan (Scotland represent!) and a bit under Marcus Aurelius!)No PR machine. Just people getting behind a working-class Scottish debutIf you’ve been thinking about it, now’s the time:<a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/drystone-a-life-rebuilt-kristie-de-garis/7836359?ean=9781846976469" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/drystone-a-life-rebuilt-kristie-de-garis/7836359?ean=9781846976469</a>Now I’m off to build a wall.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BooksofMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BooksofMastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Publishing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Women</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WorkingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorkingClass</a>

Rev.Hans@SacredBodies.ca :mstdnca:<a href="https://mastodon.scot/@kristiedegaris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@kristiedegaris</a> Congratulations! Please share your (non-Amazon) link. My mother recently self-published her memoir (just in time for her 88th birthday). Here’s where readers interested in a Canadian Mennonite girl growing up into a woman in a pioneer Vancouver Island community can find her book: <a href="http://www.cominghomeamemoir.ca" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://www.cominghomeamemoir.ca</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/womenshistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womenshistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canada</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/writersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writersofmastodon</a>

Reading Recluse📗 "Mourning a Breast" by Xi Xi, translated from Chinese into English by Jennifer FeeleyOriginally published in 1992, apparently this was one of the first Chinese-language books that openly talked about breast cancer. The author discusses her diagnosis and treatment (mastectomy & radiation), but also just about everything else in her life. The information about cancer might be kind of general knowledge by now, but gives some insight on how taboo and unfamiliar it still was some 30 years ago.This is one of those memoirs that might suit fiction readers more than people who mostly read non-fiction. The author really follows her interests and thoughts into anything. When you're in the mood, it reads like sitting on a park bench next to an interesting lady who's telling you the most fascinating life stories and you can't wait to hear more. When you're not in the mood, you feel like a cashier and this kind old lady just won't stop talking and the line of customers is getting longer and longer and longer and please, please get on with your day, ma'am!Funnily enough Xi Xi very much knows her reader, and she doesn't mind you getting impatient or bored. Sometimes when things go on for too long, she gives you hints on where to skip to in the book to get on with her original recounting of her cancer. You go on ahead, I'm not done yet watching the grass move in the wind! She doesn't give a shit, haha.There's an afterword by the translator that gives a little more context. I was sad to read that Xi Xi passed away in 2022 (not due to cancer) during the translation process, so she never saw this English edition completed. In the book she often talks about English-Chinese translations and comparing international translations for fun, so I assume it must've made her excited to see at least the work getting started.<a href="https://c.im/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmReading</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WomenInTranslation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInTranslation</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DisabilityLit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DisabilityLit</a>

Niklas PivicI'm reading Mark Oliver Everett's memoir 'Things the Grandchildren Should Know' and it's breathtakingly Live and seemingly honestly written.Check out the quotes I've rattled off from the book via this page: <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/book/593708/s/things-the-grandchildren-should-know" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bookwyrm.social/book/593708/s/things-the-grandchildren-should-know</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarkOliverEverett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkOliverEverett</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bookwyrm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bookwyrm</a>

Niklas"1 SUMMER OF LOVE I was driving through the pitch black Virginia night, down the perfectly flat blacktop that was once a railroad track, across that high bridge over the ravine, thinking about the details of how one night I was going to drive off it. I was sure I'd never live to the age of eighteen, so I never bothered making any plans for the future. Eighteen had come and gone a year ago, but I was still breathing. And things were only getting worse. The summer of 1982. That disgusting, sticky, humid weather where your back soaks through your shirt just from taking a short drive. By midsummer everything was a mess. My sister Liz's boyfriend flipped out in our kitchen one night and attacked me with a butcher knife. Soon after, Liz tried to kill herself for the first of many times. Swallowed a bunch of pills. Her heart stopped the moment we got her to the hospital, but they were able to revive her. Pretty soon after that, Liz and my mom went out of town to visit relatives and I found my father's dead body lying there sideways on my parents' bed, fully dressed in his usual shirt and tie, with his feet almost on the floor, like he just sat down to die at fifty-one. I tried to learn CPR from the 911 operator on the phone, carrying my father's already-stiff body across the bedroom floor. It was weird touching him. That was the first time we had any physical contact that I could remember, other than the occasional cigarette burn on my arm while squeezing by him in the hallway. I figured driving off the bridge might be the best way to deal with the crushing, lost, and empty feeling of being me. A dramatic way to go, of course. I was a kid. Later in life it would usually be a gun I imagined using on myself. Not quite as dramatic as driving off a bridge in your hometown. You can chart my development this way. In more recent years I would think about pills most often. That dramatic stuff is for kids. I'm mature now. At the end of the summer, which I had already started referring to as The Summer of Love, I drove my gold '71 Chevy Nova away from home for the first time. I had bought the car that I called 'Old Gold', complete with a stop sign used in place of its rusted-out floorboard, for a hundred bucks from my hot, blonde cousin Jennifer, who years later would die on the plane that hit The Pentagon, September 11, 2001. She was a flight attendant. Sent a postcard from Dulles airport that morning that read 'Ain't Life Grand?' in big letters on the front. My father worked at The Pentagon back around the time I was born. If I believed in curses, I'd have to wonder if the plane hit the part of the building where my father's office once was. But I don't believe in curses. Life is full of ups and downs. There have been some extremes in my life's case but, considering I had no plan, and very little of the kind of self-esteem you need to get by in this world, things could be worse. I'm just wandering through here, seeing what happens. I don't know what happens when you die and I don't expect to find out until I die. Probably nothing, but you never know. For now, I'm still alive, and I've come to realize that some of the most horrible moments of my life have led to some of the best, so I'm not one for eating up people's melodrama. Just another day to me." — Mark Oliver Everett: <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/book/593708" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Things the Grandchildren Should Know</a>, pp. 1-3<a href="https://bookwyrm.social/hashtag/383376" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkOliverEverett</a> <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/hashtag/202" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://bookwyrm.social/hashtag/5776" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> “QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE … provides insight into what it takes an individual to survive, both (with luck) physically and, more importantly, ethically”– retired Australian Army officer Jason Thomas on George MacDonald Fraser’s memoir of the WW2 Burma campaign<a href="https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/special-series/dusty-shelves/quartered-safe/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/special-series/dusty-shelves/quartered-safe/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#war</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WW2</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Burma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Burma</a> 2/5

FernNew blog post up in which I try to do Past Me a solid. Neurodivergence, regret, and Apple stock, all in one little bundle for ya. I'm new to memoir and don't know what I'm doing. Though I wouldn't normally publish a letter, part of why I chose to publish this one is in the hopes that somebody sees themselves in part of it, and finds something that helps them. Maybe that somebody is you. The URL is abysmal. But the letter is okay.<a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/fernbuilds/p/life-sentences?r=55xpss&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/fernbuilds/p/life-sentences?r=55xpss&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true</a><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Today" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Today</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AuDHD</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ADHD</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autism</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Autoimmune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autoimmune</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/BirdshotUveitis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BirdshotUveitis</a>

KristieThis one was hard. I wrote about being the wrong kind of victim.The kind who stayed. The kind who didn't call the police. The kind who texted three days after.And yes, it might make you feel uncomfortable, but it's the experience of many, many victims. So important to understand.<a href="https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/not-the-right-kind-of-victim/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/not-the-right-kind-of-victim/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Women</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WritingThroughTrauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingThroughTrauma</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Memoir</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BreakingTheSilence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BreakingTheSilence</a>

earthlingA Woman Among Wolves My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery by Diane K. Boyd, 2024Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane Boyd has spent four decades studying and advocating for wolves in the wilds of Montana near Glacier National Park. <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#women</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wolves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wolves</a>

Julia S.A LINGUIST’S LOVE LETTER to language is a stunning combination of scientific depth, personal candor, and beautiful prose that ties speech (and sign) to everything essential to being human. Truly extraordinary. A MINUS<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/linguaphile-julie-sedivy/1144629515?ean=9780374601836" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/linguaphile-julie-sedivy/1144629515?ean=9780374601836</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/bookreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookreview</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/bookreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookreviews</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/socialscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialscience</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a>

earthlingA Balcony Over Jerusalem by John Lyons, 2017A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents. <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jerusalem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jerusalem</a>

(((Cindy Weinstein)))It was an honor to be a panelist on <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Dementia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dementia</a> Stories for Impact: Dementia Life Course and Storytelling, sponsored by the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AlzheimersAssociation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlzheimersAssociation</a> and <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/UCSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCSF</a>. My fellow authors and colleagues talked about the importance of <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#narrative</a>, <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#empathy</a>, <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/brain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brain</a> health, and Dr. Bruce Miller and I talked about our work together on my <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a>, Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain. I hope you find this discussion helpful. <a href="https://lnkd.in/g-mgqkkN" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lnkd.in/g-mgqkkN</a><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/EndAlz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EndAlz</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Caregiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Caregiving</a>

(((Cindy Weinstein)))It was an honor to be a panelist on <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Dementia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dementia</a> Stories for Impact: Dementia Life Course and Storytelling, sponsored by the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AlzheimersAssociation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlzheimersAssociation</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/UCSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UCSF</a>. My fellow authors and colleagues talked about the importance of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#narrative</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#empathy</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/brain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brain</a> health, and Dr. Bruce Miller and I talked about our work together on my <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a>, Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and the Brain. I hope you find this discussion helpful. <a href="https://lnkd.in/g-mgqkkN" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lnkd.in/g-mgqkkN</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/EndAlz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EndAlz</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Caregiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Caregiving</a>

FrankIn Shattered, Hanif Kureishi wrestles with his shift from private man to public piece of meat. He also finds love<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-23/shattered-book-hanif-kureishi-private-man-public-piece-meat/105069662" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-23/shattered-book-hanif-kureishi-private-man-public-piece-meat/105069662</a><a href="https://masto.nu/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/Memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Memoir</a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://masto.nu/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disability</a>

LM Little<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reading</a> Prisoner of Tehran. Compelling story of a teenager's courage and faith. The trauma of imprisonment, torture, abuse and erasure and then the survivor's guilt and the shame of betrayal are overwhelming. And this is Iran, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Afghanistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Afghanistan</a> and so many other places that war on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#women</a> and silence <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dissent</a>. This author's first book is well written and nicely constructed. Recommend it!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iran</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humanRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canadian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a>

(((Cindy Weinstein)))I know the feeling Samina Ali describes; in fact I had a similar experience with my own <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a>. I very much look forward to reading hers."When I got to the end of the memoir, I realized the story I’d written wasn’t the one I’d intended to write. I hadn’t just written a story about my survival, not really. What emerged as well was a full-throated love letter to the vital act of storytelling. It’s narrative that allowed me to recover my memories and rebuild my brain."<a href="https://lithub.com/a-wordless-writer-samina-ali-on-how-writing-a-memoir-helped-her-brain-trauma-heal/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20March%2021%2C%202025&utm_term=lithub_master_list" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lithub.com/a-wordless-writer-samina-ali-on-how-writing-a-memoir-helped-her-brain-trauma-heal/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20March%2021%2C%202025&utm_term=lithub_master_list</a>

(((Cindy Weinstein)))I know the feeling Samina Ali describes; in fact I had a similar experience with my own <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a>. I very much look forward to reading hers."When I got to the end of the memoir, I realized the story I’d written wasn’t the one I’d intended to write. I hadn’t just written a story about my survival, not really. What emerged as well was a full-throated love letter to the vital act of storytelling. It’s narrative that allowed me to recover my memories and rebuild my brain."<a href="https://lithub.com/a-wordless-writer-samina-ali-on-how-writing-a-memoir-helped-her-brain-trauma-heal/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20March%2021%2C%202025&utm_term=lithub_master_list" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lithub.com/a-wordless-writer-samina-ali-on-how-writing-a-memoir-helped-her-brain-trauma-heal/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20March%2021%2C%202025&utm_term=lithub_master_list</a>

ArtStudioCBI'm pleased to write that I've finished my short <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Memoir</a> 'Emerging: An Artistic Practice Saved My Life.'I've found an editor, and it should be published in May, fingers crossed.<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Author</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Art</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Artist</a>

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