In many ways, Marie Younan's A different kind of seeing: My journey is a standard memoir about a person overcoming the limitations of her disability which, in this case, is blindness. It's told first person, chronologically, from her grandparents' lives through her birth in Syria to the present when she is in her late 60s … Continue reading Marie Younan with Jill Sanguinetti, A different kind of seeing: My journey (#BookReview)
Jill Sanguinetti
Jill Sanguinetti, School days of a Methodist lady: A journey through girlhood (Review)
When I read a memoir, particularly one by an unknown person like Jill Sanguinetti's School days of a Methodist lady, my first question is why was this memoir written? Sally Morgan's My place, for example, explores how she discovered her indigenous origins and why her family had kept this hidden, while Frank McCourt's Angela's ashes chronicles the … Continue reading Jill Sanguinetti, School days of a Methodist lady: A journey through girlhood (Review)
Whispering Gums 