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patchworkpeace
True Blue Farmgirl
478 Posts
Judy
Jackson
Michigan
USA
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 Posted - Jun 03 2013 : 07:31:35 AM
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I love reading memoirs - particularly adventure memoirs. What are your favorite kind(s)?
Success is measured not by the position one reaches but by the obstacles one has to overcome to reach it. Booker T. Washington
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
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Cindy
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Posted - Jun 03 2013 : 3:07:35 PM
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I enjoyed reading The Flame Trees of Thika. Also, a memoir of sorts, Dog Years, by Mark Doty. I like memoirs that move you to another place inside of you that you'd almost forgotten.
Cindy
"Vast floods can't quench love, no matter what love did/ Rivers can't drown love, no matter where love's hid"--Sinead O'Connor
"In many ways, you don't just live in the country, it lives inside you"--Ellen Eilers
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patchworkpeace
True Blue Farmgirl
478 Posts
Judy
Jackson
Michigan
USA
478 Posts |
Posted - Jun 04 2013 : 05:18:18 AM
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Cindy, I've heard good things about Flame Trees of Thika. It is on my list to read. :-) I will look into Dog Years. Thanks!
Success is measured not by the position one reaches but by the obstacles one has to overcome to reach it. Booker T. Washington
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Bella
True Blue Farmgirl
274 Posts
Karen
USA
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Posted - Jun 26 2013 : 4:07:08 PM
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I really enjoyed A Year in Provence; Under the Tuscan Sun, and A House in Sicily. I tend to go for the travel memoirs and these did have a sense of adventure in them.
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"Just living is not enough, said the butterfly. One must have freedom, sunshine and a little flower." -Hans Christian Anderson |
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AnnieinIdaho
True Blue Farmgirl
437 Posts
Annie
ID
USA
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Posted - Jun 26 2013 : 9:26:35 PM
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My most favorite are: Thirty One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains by Capt. William Drannan. He went on the plains as a 15 year old and became Kit Carson's "adopted son" It was written in 1902. At the end of the book he describes his retirement living in Moscow, Idaho. Who knew? I bought the book in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho at an antique shop while on a glamping event a couple of years ago. I learned so much about the early Utah, Nevada, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Montana. It is an authentic record of a life time of hunting, trapping, scouting and Indian fighting in the Far West.
The other amazing book is called Driftwood Valley, a documentation of a couple who spent several years collecting specimens for the Provincial Museum in Victoria in the area around Tetana Lake. It is a true naturalist diary in the Northern Wilderness of British Columbia. It was published in 1946. I got this gem at an antique bookstore in Salina, KS. These are my two top books ever and I've read many a book! Happy Reading! Annie
"The turnings of life seldom show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing." Edith Wharton, 1913 from 'The Custom of the Country'. |
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