回忆录
Green Hills of Africa 谷歌图书
作者: Ernest Hemingway Good Press 2023 - 12
Green Hills of Africa is a work of nonfiction by American writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's second work of nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa is an account of a month on safari he and his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, took in East Africa during December 1933. Much of the narrative describes Hemingway's adventures hunting in East Africa, interspersed with ruminations about literature and authors. Generally the East African landscape Hemingway describes is in the region of Lake Manyara in Tanzania.
2024年4月6日 已读
……一定程度上是我自己的expectation有问题,真没想到是一本完全有关于打猎的作品,海明威是这样的,没有任何隐喻,单纯只是写打猎而已……对打猎不感兴趣还非要来看这本大概是我的责任,但是打猎这种理应比较刺激的活动还写得这么索然无味我觉得也不全是我的问题……
回忆录 美国 非洲
Crying in H Mart 豆瓣 Goodreads
Crying in H Mart
7.9 (53 个评分) 作者: Michelle Zauner Alfred A. Knopf 2021 - 4
From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.
As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band–and meeting the man who would become her husband–her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.
Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner’s voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.
2021年5月23日 已读
这本真的非常值得,母女亲情、亚裔身份认知、对死亡的恐惧和对离别的接受,以及美食在其中的作用,情感很真挚,文笔也真的不错
亚裔 回忆录 美国 非虚构
My Own Words 豆瓣 Goodreads
8.3 (7 个评分) 作者: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Simon & Schuster 2016 - 10
In this collection Justice Ginsburg discusses gender equality, the workings of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution. Throughout her life Justice Ginsburg has been (and continues to be) a prolific writer and public speaker. This book’s sampling is selected by Justice Ginsburg and her authorized biographers Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams, who introduce each chapter and provide biographical context and quotes gleaned from hundreds of interviews they have conducted.
The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—“a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and public opinion” (Harper’s Bazaar).
My Own Words “showcases Ruth Ginsburg’s astonishing intellectual range” (The New Republic).
Witty, engaging, serious, and playful, My Own Words is a fascinating glimpse into the life of one of America’s most influential women and “a tonic to the current national discourse” (The Washington Post).
2020年10月20日 已读
Audible这个有声书有好多Ruth和Marty的原声,听他们讲话真的太享受了,温柔又坚定的声音,还有Marty深入骨髓的幽默感,清晰的论述,唯一的缺点可能是太着重于Ruth的观点所以对她个人经历的叙述比例太低了
回忆录 美国
Somewhere Towards the End 豆瓣 Goodreads
7.0 (5 个评分) 作者: Diana Athill W.W. Norton & Co. 2009 - 1
An esteemed memoirist examines aging with the grace of "Elegy for Iris" and the wry irreverence of "I Feel Bad About My Neck," Diana Athill is one of the great editors in British publishing. For more than five decades she edited the likes of V. S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys, for whom she was a confidante and caretaker. As a writer, Diana Athill has made her reputation for the frankness and precisely expressed wisdom of her memoirs. Now in her ninety-first year, "entirely untamed about both old and new conventions" ("Literary Review") and freed from any of the inhibitions that even she may have once had, Athill reflects candidly, and sometimes with great humor, on the condition of being old--the losses and occasionally the gains that age brings, the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. Distinguished by "remarkable intelligence... and the] easy elegance of her prose" ("Daily Telegraph"), this short, well-crafted book, hailed as "a virtuoso exercise" ("Sunday Telegraph") presents an inspiring work for those hoping to flourish in their later years.
2023年3月15日 已读
3.5,其实与其说是回忆录,更像是老太太的日记,零散又睿智的有关生命和衰老的感悟,却没有意料之中的沉重和伤感,反而机敏幽默让人心动,文字有点匠气不过不可否认文笔不错,有关妈妈过世的故事让人念念不忘,看到耄耋老人能这样从心所欲享受生活也忍不住觉得温暖,这样的心态活到101岁大概也从没觉得无聊吧
回忆录 英国 非虚构
Living to Tell the Tale 豆瓣
作者: Gabriel Garcia Marquez 译者: Edith Grossman Knopf 2003 - 11
In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life.
Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez’s life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It has the shape, the quality, and the vividness of a conversation with the reader—a tale of people, places, and events as they occur to him: the colorful stories of his eccentric family members; the great influence of his mother and maternal grandfather; his consuming career in journalism, and the friends and mentors who encouraged him; the myths and mysteries of his beloved Colombia; personal details, undisclosed until now, that would appear later, transmuted and transposed, in his fiction; and, above all, his fervent desire to become a writer. And, as in his fiction, the narrator here is an inspired observer of the physical world, able to make clear the emotions and passions that lie at the heart of a life—in this instance, his own.
Living to Tell the Tale is a radiant, powerful, and beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Gabriel García Márquez as a writer and as a man.
2021年7月29日 已读
不愧是马尔克斯,文笔是真的好,丝滑又黏腻很有风格感,加上一些传奇经历,non-fic生生写出fiction的感觉,不过后一半儿可能是太和当地政治联系紧密了,有点get不到
回忆录 非虚构
I'm Glad My Mom Died 豆瓣 Goodreads
I'm Glad My Mom Died
作者: Jennette McCurdy Simon & Schuster 2022 - 8
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life.
Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income.
In I’m Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!”), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.
Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I’m Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.
Review
“A stunning memoir…[McCurdy] reveals herself to be a stingingly funny and insightful writer, capable of great empathy and a brutal punchline. It’s a document not just of all she’s endured, but also of the wisdom she accrued along the way.”—Sam Lansky, TIME
“A coming-of-age story that is alternately harrowing and mordantly funny.”—Dave Itzkoff, The New York Times
“Jennette McCurdy is the queen of lemonade from lemons, using her trauma to weave a painfully funny story that also illuminates the commodification of teenage girls in America. An important cultural document just as much as a searingly personal one.”—Lena Dunham
“Jennette’s road to finding herself—removed from the expectations of her mother—is impressively funny. She fuses nuanced relationships, complex grief, religious whiplash and Hollywood trauma into a bold story with a specific comedic voice.”—Jerrod Carmichael
“How can a book be so sad and also so funny? It's an art, and Jennette McCurdy has mastered it here. I’m Glad My Mom Died is hysterical and heartbreaking and fascinating all at the same time.”—Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things and Broken (in the Best Possible Way)
“I'm Glad My Mom Died is furious, sad, brave, knowing, honest, heart-wrenching, and utterly compelling. McCurdy writes with a keen insight and startling compassion. Whether showing how dysfunction can seem normal to those most affected, the torture of eating disorders, or the mindfuck that is child stardom, McCurdy brings readers deep into the milieu so often hidden from outsiders. This is a beautifully crafted coming-of-age story as fearless as its author.” —Lauren Hough, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing
“Jennette McCurdy’s book is a coruscating picture of her life as a child actor, devastatingly honest and with great understanding of the psychology and emotions operating at a deep level. It’s a riveting read, entertaining and very touching.”—Hayley Mills, New York Times bestselling author of Forever Young
“Jennette’s career as an actor was simply a character in a much more important story. She is a natural writer with a wonderful sense of humor. Her story is heartbreaking with a nice balance of hopeful. I could not put this book down.”—Laraine Newman, original cast member of Saturday Night Live and author of May You Live in Interesting Times
“[An] explosive debut…insightful and incisive, heartbreaking and raw, McCurdy’s narrative reveals a strong woman who triumphs over unimaginable pressure to emerge whole on the other side. Fans will be rapt.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“McCurdy asks readers a question: When and how does one rid oneself of the cage created by others and walk freely? Her stunning debut offers fierce honesty, empathy for those that contributed to her grief, and insights into the hard-fought attachments and detachments of growing older.”—Booklist (starred review)
“Delivered with captivating candor and grace.”—Kirkus (starred review)
2022年12月19日 已读
这本真的实感很强,从第一人称视角重现无知无觉的情况下被最信任最深爱的妈妈abuse的全过程,前半部陈述了和妈妈的关系,这种相互依存、互为唯一重要的存在的关系不管怎么看都极不健康,尤其女儿为了满足妈妈的愿望心甘情愿做一切事情,做任何事情最怕妈妈不高兴,并由此引发强迫症、讨好型人格和厌食症,妈妈却对这一切视而不见;后半程是妈妈去世后她在悲痛中状态逐渐恶化发展成严重的暴食症,以及之后慢慢正视自己的感受、正视母亲的行为,并在此基础上逐渐疗愈的过程……在我国长大的孩子应该多少会有点共鸣,最亲的父母在“为你好“的旗帜下做着精神控制和虐待的事情可以说是司空见惯,可怕的是身处其中的人却很难分清爱和控制欲(不仅是被控制的一方,有时施加控制的一方也如此)……这个作者能够在万劫不复之前刹住车可以说是万幸了
回忆录 美国
Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal 豆瓣
作者: Amy Krouse Rosenthal Dutton 2016
2023年3月17日 已读
两星半……形式差不多是仅有的可圈可点的地方之一了,但这个形式在电子阅读器上真的很扣分(它甚至还有有声书,我都无法想象这本录成有声书听起来有多frustrating)……中间有几章还挺有意思的感谢我的强迫症没有让我看了两章就DNF,但是我真的很讨厌这种把blog entries捏把捏吧汇总成一本形式大于内容的书的感觉,太多散漫、没有诚意、没有灵魂
回忆录 美国
Just Kids 豆瓣
8.3 (15 个评分) 作者: [美] 帕蒂·史密斯 Ecco 2010 - 11
Smith's beautifully crafted love letter to her friend Robert Mapplethorpe functions as a memento mori of a relationship fueled by a passion for art and writing. Her elegant eulogy lays bare the chaos and the creativity so embedded in that earlier time and in Mapplethorpe's life and work.
2023年8月24日 已读
读这本的时候总觉得像是给自己的青春期一个迟到的closure(是不是迟到太久了点),整本书的基调诗意、敏感、浪漫,应该是十年前的我会爱不释手的动词,不过如今相比于她的艺术生涯本身,阅读过程中我被她和Robert Mapplethorpe的关系深深吸引,从浪漫开始,不因浪漫的结束而终结,最后的did art get us谁能不泪流满面,是被艺术牵绊一生的QPR,今天是谁在公交车上眼泪止不住啊?哦是我……
回忆录 艺术
An Owl on Every Post 豆瓣
作者: Sanora Babb 1970
2023年11月15日 已读
居然是这么小众的书!一家人在荒原的一间风雨飘摇的dugout拓荒的艰辛回忆,生存本身成了最大的难题,他们面临的是真实的饥荒、干旱和与世隔绝的孤寂,但被动物环绕的生活又有独特的田园诗一般的美感,作者的文笔非常美,她对荒原生活的依恋深沉而朴实,以至于最终“回到文明社会”的时候让我产生了一丝失落和怅然
回忆录 美国
鸽子隧道 豆瓣
The Pigeon Tunnel
8.2 (8 个评分) 作者: [英]约翰·勒卡雷 译者: 文泽尔 上海人民出版社 2019 - 6
☆ 从军情五处的间谍,到英国国宝级小说家。《柏林谍影》作者约翰·勒卡雷的唯一回忆录。
☆ 他是约翰·勒卡雷,也是大卫·康威尔,近四十个人生片段,狙击一个伟大小说家充满矛盾与挣扎的自我。
☆ 间谍生涯与小说写作其实是天造地设的一对。两者都要随时准备好去窥视人类的罪过,以及通往背叛的种种途径。
☆ 有一种鸽子天生就被培养成狩猎游戏的靶子,它们飞越专门修建的漫长隧道,而出口就是猎人们的枪口。
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服务过军情五处和军情六处,初试写作,就震惊文坛。
这是英国国宝级小说大师勒卡雷的唯一回忆录,记下了他人生中近四十个刻骨铭心的片段,再现一个伟大作家的双重身份和多重自我。他目睹残酷战争与冷血杀伐;他跟着战地记者藏身壕沟,子弹擦着他的耳边飞过;他采访狱中的恐怖分子,却被对方堵得哑口无言;他目睹苏联巨变前后的社会,感慨万千;他见证了布罗茨基获得诺奖的瞬间,也亲历了电影大师弗里茨·朗的失意;他写下骗子父亲与自己既疏离又难舍的亲情,并苦苦思索间谍与作家的异同。
“逃避与欺骗是我童年非有不可的武器。青少年时期,我们都是某种间谍,而我却早已是退役的老兵。情报世界拥我入怀的时候,感觉就像回到家一样。”
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在这本书里,有两个勒卡雷,一个是作为间谍小说作家的他,他写军情五处、军情六处,就像是托尔金写中洲世界;另一个是才华横溢的当代小说家,搜寻着出逃的自我。
——《卫报》
2023年11月16日 已读
间谍小说作家勒卡雷的回忆录,非常轻松好读,很多军政界、演艺圈的八卦,顺便回顾了一下复杂的父子关系,语言幽默风趣,阅读过程还挺欢乐的,也许多了解一些冷战历史会读起来更畅快,但是翻译多少有点生硬
回忆录 英国