One of my favorite memoirs is "Shoe Dog" by Phil Knight, the creator of Nike. (Here's a link to the book on Amazon if anyone is interested: Shoe Dog by Phil Knight on Amazon ) It is a long memoir that covers from the time in Knight's life just after he finished college and wanted to start a business, to the shoe and clothing empire that is now Nike. It is a rags to riches, travel, advice, and a legacy story all in one. Knight wanted to travel the world and he gained experience, knowledge, and connections with shoe contacts along the way that led to him starting his own business. I learned a lot from this book. It taught me that even if things aren't going your way and you feel lost, as long as you never give up and continue trying to grow as a person, you can do great things.
I don't think this book would transfer to a blog very well. It's fairly long, way too long to be a single blog post, and it covers so many different things. It would be difficult to connect each individual post with the main story and ideas of the book.
I really enjoyed how you decided to relate the article to your own personal experience. This was not the position I took, however, reading this made me think about how certain periods of my life may have been influenced in the same way memoir writers views have been influenced. This is to say that if I were to write my own memoir I would come across the same challenges of fluidity that many memoir writers have.
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting that the memoir you chose gave you a specific lesson, which many memoirs find that hard to accomplish. In regards to your writing style I think this post flowed well, though the last paragraph may have been incorporated a little more seamlessly.