I'm a little late posting this today. I worked at Barnes and Noble, so this could fall under, "So Many Books, So Little Time". Today I'm giving away an ARC of You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know by Heather Sellers. This is a memoir that has already been published. I like reading good memoirs, and this one is good, but I had a hard time getting into it, initially. I'm so glad that I persevered, I really liked it.
The New York Times - Mary Roach
It sometimes appears that contemporary memoir has become a game of misery poker, authors competing for the most appalling hand of woes. Face blindness would seem to be a trump card, but Sellers doesn't play it that way. On the contrary…She views prosopagnosia as a gift…[and] believes her condition helped her as a writer by forcing her to focus on "the essence of the person," not the surface. The writing bears this out. Sellers captures the people in her life in spare, perfect strokes…Her calm, glass-half-full-to- overflowing worldview could, in another writer's hands, veer toward treacle, but she pulls it off beautifully.
It sometimes appears that contemporary memoir has become a game of misery poker, authors competing for the most appalling hand of woes. Face blindness would seem to be a trump card, but Sellers doesn't play it that way. On the contrary…She views prosopagnosia as a gift…[and] believes her condition helped her as a writer by forcing her to focus on "the essence of the person," not the surface. The writing bears this out. Sellers captures the people in her life in spare, perfect strokes…Her calm, glass-half-full-to- overflowing worldview could, in another writer's hands, veer toward treacle, but she pulls it off beautifully.
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Thank you so much for another good book. Mark just finished the last one you sent. I didn't have too many conversations with him while he was reading. Loved it!
ReplyDeleteTo take this condition and turn it into a plus: I marvel at that! Sounds interesting.
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