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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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Let’s Make 2023 Monarchy Free

Spare by Prince Harry

January 14, 2023 by yesknopemaybe 13 Comments

I wasn’t going to read “Spare” because memoir is one of my least favorite genres and celebrity/political memoirs are usually the worst in terms of quality and content. However, my anti-monarchist curiosity got the best of me after watching the gutter press devolve into hysterics in the lead-up to the book’s publication. It’s not surprising, given that Harry paints UK tabloid culture as the ultimate villain in his life story. If I were The Daily Fail or one of those other rags, I’d be trying […]

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

yesknopemaybe's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Prince Harry, spare ·
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