Tag: Biography
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8pm, 13th February – Everywoman: One Woman’s Truth About Speaking the Truth by Jess Phillips
“The outspoken Labour MP shares empowering stories from her own life – and she tells them well” puked The Guardian in March 2017. Whilst the Evening Standard said, “Phillips comes across as great company — not just passing the “Would you go for a drink with her?” test but making sure you’d end the evening…
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8pm, 13th March – Montaigne by Stefan Zweig
Recommended to me (SD) with the following… “There are two kinds of biographies: Long ones which tell you every fact about the person’s life and short ones which capture the person’s essence and the lessons of their life. This biography by Stefan Zweig is a brilliant, urgent and important example of the latter. What I…
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8th May 2018 – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The real struggles of a Native American boy make an uplifting story. The title tells it like it is. Sherman Alexie was born a Spokane Indian. He grew up where the book is set, on a reservation – the “rez” – in Wellpinit, Washington state. He was, like his central character, hydrocephalic at birth, “with…
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