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“Not to be devastated by my mistake, but instead to be motivated. He spoke to me with the quality one often encounters in truly wise people—forgiveness.”

Spare by Prince Harry

February 17, 2023 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I had no intention of reading Prince Harry’s memoir. Until I did. I should have known I’d cave, I’m a sucker for memoirs. There’s something about hearing a person’s story in their own words, particularly if that story is contested in some way, as Prince Harry’s has always been. What Spare is, at its core, is a person reckoning with the way in which they were raised, and the very real ways grief and trauma informed their experience of the world. That is the piece […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, autobiography, british royalty, Prince Harry, spare

faintingviolet's CBR15 Review No:8 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, autobiography, british royalty, Prince Harry, spare ·
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A Civil Rights Icon

My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King

February 8, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

Like many white folk who studied the Civil Rights Movement on a surface level, I always assumed Coretta Scott King fully played the Dutiful Wife. She tended to the children, kept the house, lifted the spirits of her famous husband, mourned with dignity and carried on his legacy as she got older. Well, she did do those things. But she did so much more and she deserves to be remembered as more than The Wife. I’ve always had a curiosity about Coretta Scott King ever […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #biography, autobiography, civil rights, Coretta Scott King

Jake's CBR15 Review No:14 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #biography, autobiography, civil rights, Coretta Scott King ·
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“I had confirmed my belief that I could walk into a cage of big cats and more importantly, walk back out again.”

Wild Animal Circus: True Tales From Carson & Barnes Circus by Dennis J. Younger

August 4, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

CBR14Bingo: Snakes (there are snakes in this book) Continuing my dive into circus animal trainer memoirs with this self-published look into working the big cat act at Carson & Barnes in 1977-1978. This is a very plainly written, minimally edited book that is basically a day by day journal of his time on the show and a few pages about him working at a roadside zoo type attraction in Florida afterwards. It was interesting in terms of the facts and his honesty about the mistreatment […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: animal abuse, animal training, autobiography, cbr14bingo, circus life, Dennis J. Younger, lions and tigers and bears

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:85 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: animal abuse, animal training, autobiography, cbr14bingo, circus life, Dennis J. Younger, lions and tigers and bears ·
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“The Circus has a great obligation to the people of America.” (Irving Feld)

Tiger, Tiger: My 25 Years with the Big Cats by Charly Baumann

August 2, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

CBR14Bingo: Star (Charly clearly sees himself as a star, and he was) This was a pretty fast and straight forward autobiography of Charly Baumann’s twenty-five years of circus life. It’s not the type of autobiography where the author does a lot of introspection, but it’s an enjoyable read and a good look into European and American circus post-WWII and into the 1970s. His descriptions of his training methods and the long, difficult process of carefully training tigers was interesting. There are also a lot of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: animal training, autobiography, cbr14bingo, Charly Baumann, circus life, lions, Tigers

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:84 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: animal training, autobiography, cbr14bingo, Charly Baumann, circus life, lions, Tigers ·
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“Whatever the hardships involved in being connected with it, this was the circus; and it was pure magic.”

Circus Doctor by J.Y. Henderson (as told to Richard Taplinger)

July 28, 2022 by GentleRain 1 Comment

CBR14Bingo: Elephant (there are a bunch of elephants in this book) Circus Doctor is, as its straight forward title suggests, an autobiography of a circus veterinarian. At the time he wrote this book, J.Y. Henderson had been working for Ringling for ten years, and from some cursory Googling it looks like he ended up working there for over forty. You can tell from the book how caring and passionate he is about caring for the vast variety of animals under his care, so it makes sense […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: animal training, autobiography, cbr14bingo, Circus, circus life, J.Y. Henderson (as told to Richard Taplinger), veterinarian

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:81 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: animal training, autobiography, cbr14bingo, Circus, circus life, J.Y. Henderson (as told to Richard Taplinger), veterinarian ·
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An entertaining and eye opening tour through Dave Grohl’s extraordinary life (so far)

The Storyteller by Dave Grohl

May 19, 2022 by TylerDFC 2 Comments

The new pseudo-autobiography, The Storyteller, from Foo Fighters frontman/Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl is not conventional. This makes sense since neither is its author. Rather than telling his life story in chronological order, the book is structured as a series of anecdotes that hit significant events mostly in the order they occurred. Whenever I am reading a biography I always dread the beginning chapters as the author goes into detail about their parents, family, and childhood. I tend to skim these parts because, for the most […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, autobiography, book review, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Kurt Cobain, music, musicians, Nirvana, scream, Them Crooked Vultures, TylerDFC

TylerDFC's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, autobiography, book review, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Kurt Cobain, music, musicians, Nirvana, scream, Them Crooked Vultures, TylerDFC ·
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