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Mar. 31st, 2026 05:48 pmWe Were Dreamers by Simu Liu (memoir, audiobook) Recommended by a friend, memoir of Simu Liu growing up in Canada all the way up to him getting the part in Shang-Chi. He documents his family in a very honest but loving way. He gets very emotional about his grandparents death. His parents and him did NOT get along and I am impressed that they even have a relationship now. There was both physical, verbal, as well as emotional abuse. It sounds like there was a long period of time where they were estranged. And that perhaps they both did some hard work to get back to where they are a family again today. As a person without a great family relationship myself I was glad to hear it. He didn't go into detail and frankly it should be one of those books where you hear all the gory I said/they said details. So no, you don't hear a tell all, but he doesn't shy away from saying how bad/hard it was and how it will always be a management of the relationship going forward. He tried to do all the things but he was just a different kid than the one they wanted. And now, perhaps they see that wasn't the right way to go about treating another autonomous person.
I Haven't Entirely Been Honest with You by Miranda Hart (memoir, audiobook) I really enjoy her comedy and I knew a small part from interviews what the book was about. Miranda Hart spent most of her life incredibly ill with a chronic illness that was never diagnosed until recently. She got lyme's disease as a child when she visited the states and then went home to a country that didn't have the disease and no one ever caught it until 40 years later. She would ask doctor's to help diagnose her whenever she got another illness and they would give her all sorts of advice but it was never quite right. One day with another doctor she was explaining her issues again and he wrote TATT and she was thrilled. Finally! what is that? he told her it was what they wrote when they didn't know what was wrong. Tired All The Time. She had reached a point where she had fallen down in her house and had absolutely no way of picking herself up. She could see out the sliding door that it was a nice day and so instead of focusing on why she couldn't do, she focused on what she could. She could watch the nice day. She eventually got her diagnosis and is working on improving her health, but as you can imagine she has setbacks.
Then Again by Diane Keaton (memoir, audiobook) Memoir of growing up in California with her parents. She parallels it with her mother's journals. So she compares herself to her mother at different stages. She talks about the loss of her father to a brain tumor and her mother to alzheimers. she talks about adopting children at 50. I wanted to read this bc we lost her so recently. It is really a book of love and family and loss.
Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg (memoir, audiobook) Story of her life as a journalist and how she in an early part of her career called Bader Ginsberg to ask a point of law and they became friends. She follows the trajectory of their lives. jobs, and families. She is a journalist of the supreme court proceedings. So she understood more about Bader Ginsberg's work (when she finally did get elevated to that position) and while they never talked about current cases Totenberg often interviewed her for events. It really was a book on friendship and how friends truly help each other thru all the points of their life.
Totals: 14 books read
Women 9 Men 2 Bipoc 4 Lgbtq 3 audio 11 electronic 2 hardcopy 1 Library 14
I Haven't Entirely Been Honest with You by Miranda Hart (memoir, audiobook) I really enjoy her comedy and I knew a small part from interviews what the book was about. Miranda Hart spent most of her life incredibly ill with a chronic illness that was never diagnosed until recently. She got lyme's disease as a child when she visited the states and then went home to a country that didn't have the disease and no one ever caught it until 40 years later. She would ask doctor's to help diagnose her whenever she got another illness and they would give her all sorts of advice but it was never quite right. One day with another doctor she was explaining her issues again and he wrote TATT and she was thrilled. Finally! what is that? he told her it was what they wrote when they didn't know what was wrong. Tired All The Time. She had reached a point where she had fallen down in her house and had absolutely no way of picking herself up. She could see out the sliding door that it was a nice day and so instead of focusing on why she couldn't do, she focused on what she could. She could watch the nice day. She eventually got her diagnosis and is working on improving her health, but as you can imagine she has setbacks.
Then Again by Diane Keaton (memoir, audiobook) Memoir of growing up in California with her parents. She parallels it with her mother's journals. So she compares herself to her mother at different stages. She talks about the loss of her father to a brain tumor and her mother to alzheimers. she talks about adopting children at 50. I wanted to read this bc we lost her so recently. It is really a book of love and family and loss.
Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg (memoir, audiobook) Story of her life as a journalist and how she in an early part of her career called Bader Ginsberg to ask a point of law and they became friends. She follows the trajectory of their lives. jobs, and families. She is a journalist of the supreme court proceedings. So she understood more about Bader Ginsberg's work (when she finally did get elevated to that position) and while they never talked about current cases Totenberg often interviewed her for events. It really was a book on friendship and how friends truly help each other thru all the points of their life.
Totals: 14 books read
Women 9 Men 2 Bipoc 4 Lgbtq 3 audio 11 electronic 2 hardcopy 1 Library 14
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