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Welcome to Tag Tuesday! This is the This or That Tag! Feel welcome to do this interesting tag - especially if you enjoy biographies, autobiographies, memoirs or letters, diaries and other correspondence. This could be the tag for you!
Tag created by Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 and Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks
I was tagged by @Uncommon_Reader
And here are the prompts!
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.
- Big, fat and detailed biographies or short and succinct biographies?
- Celebrity memoirs or average Joe memoirs?
- Complete correspondence or selected letters?
- Memoirs written when the events are fresh or memoirs written with hindsight?
- Gossipy biographies or scholarly biographies?
- Diaries of ordinary life or diaries of extraordinary events?
- Arty memoirs or sporting memoirs?
- Gritty autobiographical writing or inspirational autobiographical writing?
- Biographies of historical figures or biographies of contemporary figures?
- Memoirs of happy days or memoirs of tragic days?
* 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)?
Who is Samuel Pepys:????
(Samuel PEEps)
English diarist and administrator (1633–1703)
Samuel Pepys was an English diarist and naval administrator. He served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament, but is most remembered today for the diary he kept for almost a decade. Though he had no maritime experience, Pepys rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II through patronage, diligence, and his talent for administration.
Contact me at beyond.books4242@gmail.com
Welcome to Tag Tuesday! This is the This or That Tag! Feel welcome to do this interesting tag - especially if you enjoy biographies, autobiographies, memoirs or letters, diaries and other correspondence. This could be the tag for you!
Tag created by Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 and Elisabeth @bouquinsbooks
I was tagged by @Uncommon_Reader
And here are the prompts!
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.
- Big, fat and detailed biographies or short and succinct biographies?
- Celebrity memoirs or average Joe memoirs?
- Complete correspondence or selected letters?
- Memoirs written when the events are fresh or memoirs written with hindsight?
- Gossipy biographies or scholarly biographies?
- Diaries of ordinary life or diaries of extraordinary events?
- Arty memoirs or sporting memoirs?
- Gritty autobiographical writing or inspirational autobiographical writing?
- Biographies of historical figures or biographies of contemporary figures?
- Memoirs of happy days or memoirs of tragic days?
* 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)?
Who is Samuel Pepys:????
(Samuel PEEps)
English diarist and administrator (1633–1703)
Samuel Pepys was an English diarist and naval administrator. He served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament, but is most remembered today for the diary he kept for almost a decade. Though he had no maritime experience, Pepys rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II through patronage, diligence, and his talent for administration.
Contact me at beyond.books4242@gmail.com
