{"id":516,"date":"2021-05-24T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/?p=516"},"modified":"2021-09-14T15:13:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T15:13:13","slug":"12-favorite-memoirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"12 favorite memoirs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I love memoirs! I love to read them. I love to help people write them. I love that the LDS Women Project is a series of mini-memoirs. Some favorites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>The Last Lecture<\/em> by Randy Pausch<\/li><li><em>The Year of Living Danishly <\/em>by Helen Russell<\/li><li><em>Garlic and Sapphires<\/em> by Ruth Reichl<\/li><li><em>Becoming <\/em>by Michelle Obama<\/li><li><em>A Walk in My Shoes<\/em> by Ben Schilaty<\/li><li><em>Letter to My Daughter<\/em> by Maya Angelou<\/li><li><em>The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry<\/em> by Kathleen Flinn<\/li><li><em>Animal, Vegetable, Miracle<\/em> by Barbara Kingsolver<\/li><li><em>The Happiness Project<\/em> by Gretchen Rubin<\/li><li><em>The Only Pirate at the Party <\/em>by Lindsey Stirling<\/li><li><em>Traveling with Pomegranates<\/em> by Sue Monk Kidd<\/li><li><em>This is What America Looks Like<\/em> by Ilhan Omar<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I notice that only two are from men. I&#8217;ve read lots of memoirs by men, but they were not my favorites. I apparently connect more strongly with women&#8217;s writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I notice that they&#8217;re about life &#8211; here&#8217;s this situation I found myself in, and this is how I dealt with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are three a bit more tailored to food, which is quite hilarious to my husband and me because I hate cooking. I cook for the utility of it, to eat, not because I enjoy the act and art of cooking itself. But obviously I like reading about people who do! Ha!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I reviewed my entire reading journal, I noticed a lot of memoirs about hiking &#8230; but they did not make the cut for favorites. Huh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love memoirs! I love to read them. I love to help people write them. I love that the LDS Women Project is a series of mini-memoirs. Some favorites: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl Becoming by Michelle Obama A Walk<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/?p=516\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;12 favorite memoirs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,16],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-numbers","tag-reading-list","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}