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The "This or That?" book tag: a new tag for People April and beyond from Ros at @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 and Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks
I was tagged by Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
Use this tag to talk about what you like or dislike in nonfiction about people. Pick the prompts that appeal to you or allow you to enjoy being opinionated. Do mention books good and bad as you go along.
1) Big, fat and detailed biographies or short and succinct biographies?
2) Celebrity memoirs or average Joe memoirs?
3) Complete correspondence or selected letters?
4) Memoirs written when the events are fresh or memoirs written with hindsight?
5) Gossipy biographies or scholarly biographies?
6) Diaries of ordinary life or diaries of extraordinary events?
7) Arty memoirs or sporting memoirs?
8) Gritty autobiographical writing or inspirational autobiographical writing?
9) Biographies of historical figures or biographies of contemporary figures?
10) Memoirs of happy days or memoirs of tragic days?
11) Bonus prompt from Elisabeth: The Complete Diary of Samuel Pepys (over 4000 pages or 116 hours and 16 minutes of audiobook) or Selections from the Diary of Samuel Pepys (which can be as short as 120 pages or 3 hours and 55 minutes of audiobook)?
12) Tag some others:
Aaron Facer @aaronfacer
James at Quaint and Curious Volumes @JamesRuchala
David Novak @davidnovakreadspoetry
Gavin @GenreBooks23
David @polyglotreading
The Mild Rumpus @mildrumpus
Nicky @MyMessyBookshelf
Ellen @ellenmadebookclub
Libro Paradiso @LibroParadiso-ep4zt
Sonya @anenthusiasticreader
Justin @TriumphalReads
BookTubers Mentioned:
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks
Steve Donoghue @saintdonoghue
Books mentioned:
Gooch, B. City Poet.
Calhoun, A. Also A Poet.
Caldwell, G. Let's Take the Long Way Home.
Knapp, C. Drinking: A Love Story.
Perry, M. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir.
Shulz, K. Lost & Found.
Woolf, V. Moments of Being.
Wordsworth, D. The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals.
Springsteen, B. Born to Run.
Obama, B. A Promised Land.
Carr, M. The Art of Memoir.
Goetsch. D. This Body I Wore.
#peopleapril #memoir #biography #autobiography #diaries
The "This or That?" book tag: a new tag for People April and beyond from Ros at @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 and Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks
I was tagged by Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
Use this tag to talk about what you like or dislike in nonfiction about people. Pick the prompts that appeal to you or allow you to enjoy being opinionated. Do mention books good and bad as you go along.
1) Big, fat and detailed biographies or short and succinct biographies?
2) Celebrity memoirs or average Joe memoirs?
3) Complete correspondence or selected letters?
4) Memoirs written when the events are fresh or memoirs written with hindsight?
5) Gossipy biographies or scholarly biographies?
6) Diaries of ordinary life or diaries of extraordinary events?
7) Arty memoirs or sporting memoirs?
8) Gritty autobiographical writing or inspirational autobiographical writing?
9) Biographies of historical figures or biographies of contemporary figures?
10) Memoirs of happy days or memoirs of tragic days?
11) Bonus prompt from Elisabeth: The Complete Diary of Samuel Pepys (over 4000 pages or 116 hours and 16 minutes of audiobook) or Selections from the Diary of Samuel Pepys (which can be as short as 120 pages or 3 hours and 55 minutes of audiobook)?
12) Tag some others:
Aaron Facer @aaronfacer
James at Quaint and Curious Volumes @JamesRuchala
David Novak @davidnovakreadspoetry
Gavin @GenreBooks23
David @polyglotreading
The Mild Rumpus @mildrumpus
Nicky @MyMessyBookshelf
Ellen @ellenmadebookclub
Libro Paradiso @LibroParadiso-ep4zt
Sonya @anenthusiasticreader
Justin @TriumphalReads
BookTubers Mentioned:
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks
Steve Donoghue @saintdonoghue
Books mentioned:
Gooch, B. City Poet.
Calhoun, A. Also A Poet.
Caldwell, G. Let's Take the Long Way Home.
Knapp, C. Drinking: A Love Story.
Perry, M. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir.
Shulz, K. Lost & Found.
Woolf, V. Moments of Being.
Wordsworth, D. The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals.
Springsteen, B. Born to Run.
Obama, B. A Promised Land.
Carr, M. The Art of Memoir.
Goetsch. D. This Body I Wore.
#peopleapril #memoir #biography #autobiography #diaries
