I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir | 
Billed as "a memoir of mothers and daughters—and mothers as daughters—traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again", this book has been on my TBR list for some time. #amothersstory #mothersday #BiblioMAYnia #MagicalMay
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pickA daughter writes a memoir of her mother ( and grandmother) and finds friends in her female relatives. Her family is French, American, and Jewish, which makes for rich stories of her famous family. Her mother is Francoise Mouly, NY art director and father is Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus. 4🌟
I CANNOT stop reading this book. Ah-mazing! #memoir
My current read. Really lovely so far. Was a birthday present from the friend who knows what books I want before I can tell her or buy them. ❤️
so-soInteresting look at the relationship between mothers and daughters. I enjoyed this a lot, but as a person who has a strong relationship with their mother I had trouble connecting.
so-soI can't decide for sure how I felt about this one. I really liked that it spanned generations of women. I also really liked the depth of the characters. I didn't like that it was at times difficult to keep the narrative straight, or that I didn't feel a real resolution at the end. I think it's possible that my dislikes were from it being a memoir, which I don't normally read.
Literally 2 pages from the end and my Nook dies!
Oh well. Good thing I only work 1 job today! Seeing how many books I can finish in my July 4th holiday from my full-time gig!
pick3.5/5⭐️. Great coming of age memoir by the writer through the intense family history of her mother and grandmother. The writer intertwines her life with that of her matriarchal figures searching for her identity. I struggled at times feeling like she was on the threshold of something profound and then it was left open. Maybe it is metaphorical for life or she just hasn't reached that point. Would recommend
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"The acts of omission and inclusion we made in our memories were creative acts through which we authored our lives."
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Listening to the author narrate this memoir provided a welcome intimacy, a faithfulness to her original vision. It lent the tone to conversations that weaved a tapestry of the past... of relationships between mothers and daughters... and how these can encourage a better, deeper understanding of those bonds in the present.
#TBRtemptation post! Wow!!! This must be one helluva memoir! Crossing between NYC & Paris, Nadja recounts how she came to learn of her family's past--which includes her father, "Maus" author Art Spiegelman. She learns turbulent & volatile things from her mother. In turn, she travels to Europe to meet her grandmother, who counters everything her mother's told her. Talk about each generation revising history! Captivating. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?
"It is posed as a theoretical question, whether a mother would run into a burning building to save her child. It is not one that many people know the answer to."
pickThis is a must read for any woman who has a complicated relationship with her mother/grandmother.
pickWriting a memoir in your late twenties may be indulgent, but an artistically indulgent woman is a rebellious one, and Spiegelman uses her project to honor the women in her life whose lives are complex and compromised, resulting in a book that is stranger than fiction and difficult to put down. #JewLit
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2 hrs of Yard work ✅. Gave #Bitsy a bath after she "helped" in yard ✅ (Now she's walking around like she's the Queen just because she's clean). Now going to read for the rest of the evening ?
So excited to sink into this one
I did it! Also finished this owl that I started some time ago (about a 1/4 was done before I started today).
Determined to finish this today. I only have a little less than 2 hours left. I can do it!
I'm getting there with this one. I can only do so much at a time. I'm finding it very heavy. Incredible, but heavy.
Just started this one. I'm incredibly interested in this story. Yes she is the daughter of Art Spiegelman (Maus)
Seriously well written and beautifully well rounded characters. And I'm only 120 pages in.
I obviously couldn't just pick one. #memorablememoirs #booktober
pickThe sophistication and elan of these three women who live in Paris and New York made me feel like a provincial convict 😬😂 but there was so much love between Nadia and her mother and Nadja and her grandmother ... and yet so much emotional dysfunction, hurt, and conflicting stories to unpick. This memoir took years to write, but NS was persistent in claiming her memories, fearing her very sense of self may be forgotten in their perspectives.
#TGIF.
Peaceful sunrise reading before my day gets busy. 😳 I know people keep saying that food doesn't cure anything, but I keep thinking to myself that those people have never had a donut. They're perfection. 🍩
#bookandtea #bookandbreakfast
I have #Litsomnia, so I started a new book.
I'm starting this memoir. IT'S SO GOOD. The prose, like this quote, is 🔥. Nadja is unlocking the story of her mom's troubled past. Her mom is French, but she decided to move to NYC to get away from her family, but Nadja doesn't know why. Her mom is a former arts editor of The New Yorker, & her father is Art Spiegelman, author of Maus. She has fascinating stories to tell, & her writing is magical. 🔥✨
The Maus books profoundly changed how I thought about Children of Survivors. And I once wrote to Francoise Mouly at the New Yorker hoping she would publish one of my great grandfather's paintings on the magazine cover. She did not, but sent me the nicest rejection note. So when I learned their daughter wrote a memoir...I knew I had to read it. It's the bio of a mother seen through the eyes of a daughter.
Hoping for a weekend of sun and fun, gold skirts and glorious reading times. Loving this read so far.
Erin: "It's a memoir of mothers and daughters over four generations. The author's mother has been the art editor at The New Yorker since the 90s. Her father is Art Spiegelman who is a cartoonist and editor. You'd think someone who grows up with amazing parents like this would have a dreamlike childhood but everyone has their own challenges. Nadja explored hers by looking at her mother's and grandmother's challenges in a beautiful and caring way."
pickSpiegelman's prose can feel overly flowery and self-conscious at times, but she is so eloquent and evocative that I really didn't care. The narrative is beautifully non-linear, and she manages to write about herself, her mother, and her grandmother with both a remove and deep empathy. Even if you're not a fan of mother-daughter narratives, pick this one up - Nadja Spiegelman is one to watch.
pickI heard Nadja Spiegelman describe this as "an autobiography of a mother as told by her daughter" and I think that description is perfect. It is far more than a memoir. It's a flowing, curious love letter to mothers, daughters and identity.
This is an A+ author inscription (the book is A+ so far too!).
"She wasn't particularly eager to see other people, but she was eager to see herself. This body of hers, this mind of hers, what might they look like when they were hers alone? But Paris was littered with ghosts of her past selves. She wanted a place so new it blinded her. A place that would pick her up and bleach her clean, a blank page on which a new story could begin. She wanted to go someplace no one she knew had been."
Legs tucked inside a laundry basket, eating dinosaur gummies, & listening to Gwen Stefani. 📖 #HowDoYouRead
PS Lost my first copy and finally snagged another one! Can't wait to finish it - so good. Also, I'm at the laundromat. And finally, heyyyy all you new followers. Welcome to Litsy! 💕
I'm midway through and internally reeling. Nadja holds her own against her talented father, with a memoir so vivid, so achingly truthful, that I have to take breathers while reading this. It's a book that will make you reevaluate your own relationships with family and especially your own mother.
