The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London . Highly recommended. It's part autobiography, part ornithology, and part history. I loved getting to know the different ravens and their personalities and quirks. The Ravenmaster, Christopher Skaife, seems like he'd be a fun guy to have dinner and drinks with and listen to his stories.
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox. I finished this one yesterday and thought it was a good read. I've read his previous books about dealing with Parkinson's, so it was nice to catch up. He's had some rough times in the last couple of years.
I've read some other autobiographies in the last year, so here's a list if this is a genre you enjoy.
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay by Sean Dietrich. You may know him as Sean of the South. If you don't know who he is, I highly recommend looking him up. He writes regular creative non-fiction essays that are both funny and poignant, and also travels the country as a speaker (or he did before the pandemic).
A Promised Land by Barack Obama. This is the first of 2 planned volumes. I haven't finished this one because some books I had on hold with the library came through. I should be able to get back to it in a day or two.
On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received her medical degree—becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history. She earned her degree thirty-one years before women could vote and thirty-five years before Indians could become citizens in their own country.
By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Native woman became the doctor to her tribe. Overnight, she acquired 1,244 patients scattered across 1,350 square miles of rolling countryside with few roads. Her patients often were desperately poor and desperately sick—tuberculosis, small pox, measles, influenza—families scattered miles apart, whose last hope was a young woman who spoke their language and knew their customs.
This is the story of an Indian woman who effectively became the chief of an entrenched patriarchal tribe, the story of a woman who crashed through thick walls of ethnic, racial and gender prejudice, then spent the rest of her life using a unique bicultural identity to improve the lot of her people—physically, emotionally, politically, and spiritually.
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox. I finished this one yesterday and thought it was a good read. I've read his previous books about dealing with Parkinson's, so it was nice to catch up. He's had some rough times in the last couple of years.
I've read some other autobiographies in the last year, so here's a list if this is a genre you enjoy.
Just posted this in Book Bargains since it dropped to $1.99 Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me by Bill Hayes is $1.99, was $9.69 (lowest price, has been on sale for $2.99 last year in June)
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox. I finished this one yesterday and thought it was a good read. I've read his previous books about dealing with Parkinson's, so it was nice to catch up. He's had some rough times in the last couple of years.
I've read some other autobiographies in the last year, so here's a list if this is a genre you enjoy.
Just posted this in Book Bargains since it dropped to $1.99 Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me by Bill Hayes is $1.99, was $9.69 (lowest price, has been on sale for $2.99 last year in June)
If you are in the U.S., this Friday, April 9, PBS is airing a documentary about Dr. Sacks. He had a really interesting life both professionally and privately.