Comments on: 2011 will be the best year ever

By: Sheila Cull

Sheila Cull — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:20:38 +0000

This is where I’ve been!

I have this Post Saved from/by Dystel, love it!

Thank you,

Sheila Cull

By: C.R. Boone

C.R. Boone — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:27:59 +0000

Fred Rogers "Mr. Rogers" is someone I will always look up to. His impact on children's television and my generation is inspiring. This post sparked a search, and I found "I'm Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers" by Tim Madigan and now want to read it.

By: Brandon Petersen

Brandon Petersen — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:01:54 +0000

Soleil Moon-Frye was my childhood crush. Grandma took me to see her at the mall, and I was so scared I couldn't go up to get an autograph. Grandma returned with a scribbled-on headshot 20 minutes later and the news that Punky liked my name because it was the same as the mutt on the TV show.

Crappy day.

By: Molly Hall

Molly Hall — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:59:31 +0000

Just wanted to say YES, The West Wing is the greatest show of all time! And I would happily read Aaron Sorkin's autobiography any day of the week. Think of how well written it would be!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:06:54 +0000

I don't usually read celebrity memoirs, but a great one that I read a couple of years ago is Goldie Hawn's, A Lotus Grows in Mud. I was prepared for a light read on the beach about the kookie girl from Laugh In. What I got instead was a beautifully written book about a sensitive, intelligent woman on a spirtual quest for happiness. In a book review that I wrote, I said, Goldie gives us words of wisdom like verses of poetry unfolding before her life and we feel privileged to be able to glimpse a part of her that so many of us have probably never imagined.

By: pooks

pooks — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:16:13 +0000

Get thee to MOAB IS MY WASHPOT with great haste!

Seriously.

By: Sheila Cull

Sheila Cull — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:41:09 +0000

Who cares about how famous or not famous the person is when it comes to memoir writing? It is the style of writing that counts! After you read a few paragraphs of the brilliant or not so brilliant writer's memoir, then you should care about a memoir writer and their fame, or lack of it.

By: Taymalin

Taymalin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:40:18 +0000

The only celebrity memoir I've ever read was Tim Allen's "Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man", which I really enjoyed. Of course, I was 14 when I read it, so I don't trust my taste at the time of reading.

By: Virginia McGarity

Virginia McGarity — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:03:42 +0000

As a long time Patrick Swayze fan (and Arabian horse fan)I read his book a few months ago. It was very good and sometimes tragic.

By: Jill

Jill — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:19:07 +0000

I Was a Teenage Brady, by Greg Brady (okay, it was the actor who played Greg) was a hilarious read.

I enjoyed Kenneth Branagh's memoirs, mostly because I thought it was completely audacious of him to write his memoirs at age, like, 12. Can't remember when he wrote them, but he was quite young.

And does Margaret Mead count as a celebrity? Blackberry Winter is probably my favorite memoir of all time. At least until Punky Brewster's memoir comes out.