Showing posts with label memoir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memoir. Show all posts
Friday, April 24, 2026
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Lesa's Book Critiques: Mailman by Stephen Starring Grant
Monday, February 09, 2026
Friday, February 06, 2026
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: A Child in the Forest by Winifred Foley
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: A Child in the Forest by Winifred Foley: Reviewed by Jeanne Winifred Foley, called Poll, was born in 1914 to a miner and his wife, the fourth of eight children. They lived in ...
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A Child in the Forest,
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childhood,
England,
family,
February 2026,
hardship,
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jeanne,
memoir,
review,
Tricia Newell,
Winifred Foley
Friday, May 23, 2025
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: The Dogs Buried Over the Bridge: A Memoir in Dog Years by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: The Dogs Buried Over the Bridge: A Memoir in Dog Y...: Reviewed by Jeanne Full confession: I often refuse to read books where I know the animal dies at the end. I empathize far too much. ...
Wednesday, July 03, 2024
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Lesa's Book Critiques: I SLEEP AROUND BY SUE ANN JAFFARIAN
Saturday, June 01, 2024
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Friday, March 08, 2024
Friday, January 05, 2024
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: The Super Hero’s Journey by Patrick McDonnell
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: The Super Hero’s Journey by Patrick McDonnell: Reviewed by Jeanne Growing up, I was an avid consumer of comics—or funny books, as we called them. I spent hours with various DC heroe...
Friday, October 27, 2023
Friday, October 20, 2023
Bitter Tea and Mystery: #1962Club: Something Wholesale by Eric Newby
Bitter Tea and Mystery: #1962Club: Something Wholesale by Eric Newby: Something Wholesale is a memoir by Eric Newby, a renowned British travel writer. This was the first book I have read by this author. It is ...
Saturday, April 01, 2023
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Friday, December 23, 2022
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Christmas Reading Beyond A Christmas Carol and A Visit From St. Nicholas
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: Christmas Reading Beyond A Christmas Carol and A V...: Appalachian Christmas Nora Bonesteel’s Christmas Past by Sharyn McCrumb blends two plotlines of Christmas in the region. In one, Sher...
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Appalachian Christmas,
Bookblog of the Bristol Library,
cat,
Christmas,
Christmas Reading,
Christmas stories,
December 2022,
England,
fiction,
ireland,
memoir,
non-fiction,
novels,
UK
Monday, December 19, 2022
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: An Irish Country Christmas by Alice Taylor
Bookblog of the Bristol Library: An Irish Country Christmas by Alice Taylor: Reviewed by Jeanne Alice Taylor was one of six children growing up on a farm in County Cork in the 1940s. At the time of this story, s...
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