Synopses & Reviews
With the genre of memoirs filled with so many titles and from such a variety of authors, it is hard to grasp what's available and what's worth reading. For all those who love delving into the lives of others, this
Read On… volume offers help.
Read On…Life Stories: Reading Lists for Every Taste offers brief descriptions of nearly 450 published memoirs, from classics like The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, to recent bestsellers like John Grogan's Marley and Me and Julie Andrews' Home. Titles are grouped together by their appeal to readers, and there is something for everyone: humorous memoirs, thrilling adventure stories, chatty celebrity reminiscences, cathartic dramas of family dysfunction, fascinating career retrospectives, and insightful stories of family and personal lives in many eras and places.
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"Like others in the series, this is a readers'-advisory title that could be handed off to patrons to browse on their own--if you can get it away from the librarian. With both a detailed table of contents and an excellent index, this is a must-have tool for public libraries." - Booklist
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"Useful as a reference for readers' advisors in public and school libraries, this work offers brief descriptions of about 450 published memoirs, from classic to recent bestsellers. Titles are grouped together by their emphasis on character, story, setting, language, and mood, and further divided into sections on topics such as unusual childhoods, coming of age, life-altering experiences, life in rural America, various occupations, travel, spiritual journeys, family relationships, and struggling with mental illness. The book is indexed by author, title, location, era, profession, ethnicity, and genre. Reisner is a librarian specializing in readers' advisory services." - Reference & Research Book News
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"Award-winning author Reisner, drawing on her experience and familiarity with the genre, provides with this annotated bibliography an especially useful addition to Libraries Unlimited's reader's advisory series Read On…. a good…resource for public libraries of all sizes for both reference and collection development." - Catholic Library World
Synopsis
This guide offers new reading paths for those who love reading memoirs. It categorizes some 400 titles into primary appeal features, and then into lists that address specific reading interests--from coming-of-age and Fractured Families to Off the Map (memoirs set in wild, untamed places), Salad Days (memoirs of chefs and cooks), and Laugh Lines (humorous memoir). For each title, there is bibliographic information and a brief, punchy description, designed to spark reader interest and capture the appeal connection. You can use these lists to advise readers, to create thematic reading lists for library websites, flyers, and newsletters; and as checklists or reading plans for those who enjoy memoirs. Buy two copies--one for the reference/readers' advisory collection, and one to circulate
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• Helps readers who enjoy life stories discover books they will love
• Categorizes memoirs in ways that speak to readers' taste
• Provides a useful reference source for book clubs, as well as readers' advisors in public and school libraries
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• Nearly 450 brief descriptions of memoirs, categorized to help readers find the life stories that intrigue them most
• An index covering authors, titles, locations, eras, professions, ethnicity, and genres
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Scores of appeal-based reading lists cover topics you'll never find in the library catalog—from extraordinary women and overcoming adversity to sports talk, spiritual journeys, and luminous prose.