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Tag: Memoir

A Place Called Home: A Memoir

February 15, 2023 ~ bookthrasher ~ Leave a comment

I was listening to NPR's 1A when I heard part of an interview with A Place Called Home author David Ambroz. The show that day was about adults who grew up in the foster system and as Ambroz told his story I stopped what I was doing to listen. He said that once when he … Continue reading A Place Called Home: A Memoir

Joy Enough: A Memoir

January 21, 2023 ~ bookthrasher ~ 1 Comment

Do you like to read memoirs? How about autobiographies? What's the difference, anyway? I think a memoir is more personal, a self-examination but not necessarily a life story whereas an autobiography is a retelling of a life, start to finish. Let's see what google says: A memoir is a nonfiction narrative in which the author … Continue reading Joy Enough: A Memoir

Catching the Big Fish

May 4, 2022May 4, 2022 ~ bookthrasher ~ Leave a comment

Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity David Lynch wants you to go diving - deep sea diving into the ocean of consciousness within. How? Through meditation, specifically TM or Transcendental Meditation. TM was created in the 1950s and instead of focusing on your breath you silently repeat a mantra / sound to yourself two or more times … Continue reading Catching the Big Fish

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