A challenge has been presented and I want to formally accept for 2008. A blogspotter for this “In Their Shoes” Reading Challenge has organized it all here.
The rules ask to pick the number of books I intend to read and they must be biography, autobiography or memoir. Quoting directly from the challenge blog:
“A memoir is a book dealing with a specific period in the author’s life. A biography deals with another person’s life from birth to death and an autobiography is written by someone that deals with their life from birth until near-death.”
I have yet to classify and identify which specific books by title I will read but I will commit to 
six 6
and I hope to end up with 2 of each ’style’
and off the top of my head, I want to read about the following people: Einstein, Diana Vreeland, Lewis & Clark (count as one person), and possibly a dead author (Beatrix Potter? Edith Wharton? Thomas Hardy? – all had well-received bios published lately), and now I’m coming up short! So what follows are ideas and suggestions for me, for you.
The 2007 Costa Book Award in the bio category was Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Young Stalin.
The January issue of Book Page offers an ad for Boone by Robert Morgan. Articles within recommend memoirs Final Exam by Pauline W. Chen (this calls up memories of having seen her interviewe on TV…. Hmmmm. I think I will commit to this!), The Middle Place by Katherine Wyrick, and Someday My Prince Will Come by Jerramy Fine.
AND! I’m already committed to read THIS MONTH no less (eeeEEEKKkk!): 
from Planet Books blog! So, that would be for memoir. The Vreeland would be bio (I have been unable to find a link – my internet just started to crawl). AND, finally – at least for this post, I just purchased a book that is classified as Literature Adventure Autobiography: Antoine De Saint-Exupery’s Wind, Sand & Stars! sigh…
To be continued….
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