A Life of My Own | 
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Cayman Islands, Paris, Singapore
Book and bath
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Getting through the day! My PA resigned today 😞
Tagging anyone who‘d like to play ❤️
pickGiving it a pick because I wanted to carry on reading. At the beginning she came across as privileged and patronising. She didn‘t necessarily move away from that but I was interested in her life story and she had a lot of challenges.
But somehow I don‘t think she‘s ever met a poor, working class person and her obvious disdain for anybody not in her cultural group was a bit annoying. I enjoy her biographical works, but we‘d never be friends.
#weeklyforecast
Currently reading A Life of My Own. The writing is spot on but I haven‘t warmed to the writer! We‘ll see.
Dipping in and out of Empty Nest to see if there are literary words of wisdom to prepare me. The nest will be empty 2 weeks from today. (One will return from uni of course!)
And I‘ve added the usual thriller.
I have been told this several times in my life.
panNot sure why I read this. Guess I just wanted to see how honest an autobiography a biographer would write. Seemed a bit shadowy to me.
pick#Page1 books subscription sent this to me. Otherwise I would never have read it or likely have heard of Claire Tomalin, a notable biographer and literary critic. Here she shares a memoir of her own life filled with an amazing array of literary figures and personal tragedies. More interesting to me is how the social structures of 20th century Britain and Europe allowed her to flourish. Her “ordinary” life would be unlikely for any Millennial now.📚
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I have read a couple of her biographies but haven‘t read this one - her own story. Looks like she‘s had a lot of challenges!
pickI don‘t read much historical biography, so I‘d never heard of Claire Tomalin until encountering her recently on NPR. I really, really like the way she writes - so matter-of-fact yet elegant. Her extreme privilege is clear, and I was often overwhelmed by SO MUCH name-dropping of 20th century literati. But I loved the parts about her family life and later-in-life career as a biographer. I‘ll definitely consider reading some of her other books.
