{"id":757,"date":"2022-01-14T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artabranches.net\/elkislandrta\/?p=757"},"modified":"2022-01-14T15:32:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T20:32:45","slug":"extraordinary-lives-biographies-autobiographies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artabranches.net\/elkislandrta\/extraordinary-lives-biographies-autobiographies\/","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Here is a list of books discussed at our Book Talk Tuesday on January 11, 2022 &#8211; Extraordinary Lives &#8211; Biographies\/Autobiographies.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><u>One Canada Volume One &#8211; The Crusading Years 1895 to 1956<br \/>\n<\/u><u>One Canada Volume Two &#8211; The Years of Achievement 1956 &#8211; 1962.<br \/>\n<\/u>Autobiography by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Diefenbaker\">John Diefenbaker<\/a> &#8211; Canada&#8217;s 13th Prime Minister (1957 &#8211; 1963)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books\/about\/Wooden_A_Lifetime_of_Observations_and_Re.html?id=WGqj5MIQ1KgC&amp;redir_esc=y\"><u>A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court <\/u><\/a><br \/>\nAutobiography by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Wooden\">John Wooden<\/a> &#8211; Highly respected and accomplished basketball coach and player.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_Val_Jean\"><u>Jean Val Jean<\/u> <\/a>&#8211; as told by Solomon Cleaver<br \/>\nRetelling of Victor Hugo&#8217;s Les Mis\u00e9rables (Jean Valjean)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/38746485-becoming\"><u>Becoming<\/u><\/a><br \/>\nAutobiography by Michelle Obama, wife of the United States\u2019 44th President.<\/li>\n<li><u><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kitchen_Confidential_(book)\">Kitchen Confidential<\/a><br \/>\n<\/u>Autobiography by Anthony Bourdain. &#8220;&#8230; both a professional\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memoir\">memoir<\/a>\u00a0and an unfiltered look at the less glamorous aspects of high-end restaurant kitchens&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/forgiveness-1.4459205\"><u>Forgiveness<\/u><\/a><br \/>\nA family history written by Mark Sakamoto chronicles the lives of Ralph McLean, who became a Japanese prisoner of war, and Mitsue Sakamoto, whose family lost everything as they were exiled from Vancouver along with their neighbours.<\/li>\n<li><u>The Notorious RBG<br \/>\n<\/u>Biography of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg\">Ruth Bader Ginsburg<\/a>, remarkable Supreme Court Justice, written by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik.<\/li>\n<li><u>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings<br \/>\n<\/u>An autobiography written by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maya_Angelou\">Maya Angelou<\/a>, a poet and civil rights activist who rose to respected stature from an extraordinarily difficult childhood.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Walk_in_the_Woods_(book)\"><u>Walk in the Woods<\/u><\/a><br \/>\nBill Bryson&#8217;s autobiographical memoir about an attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail \u00a0&#8220;Written in a comic style, the book mixes accounts of Bryson&#8217;s walk with broader discussions about the Trail&#8217;s history, and the sociology, ecology, conservation status and people of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appalachian_Trail_by_state\">places<\/a>\u00a0Bryson walked through&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><u>All Over but the Shoutin&#8217;<br \/>\n<\/u>Autobiography written by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rick_Bragg\">Rick Bragg<\/a> who rose from incredible poverty in Alabama to becoming a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for <em>The New York Times<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Here is a list of books discussed at our Book Talk Tuesday on January 11, 2022 &#8211; Extraordinary Lives &#8211; Biographies\/Autobiographies. 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Autobiography by John Diefenbaker &#8211; Canada&#8217;s 13th Prime Minister (1957 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Extraordinary Lives - Elk Island RTA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/artabranches.net\/elkislandrta\/extraordinary-lives-biographies-autobiographies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Extraordinary Lives - Elk Island RTA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Here is a list of books discussed at our Book Talk Tuesday on January 11, 2022 &#8211; Extraordinary Lives &#8211; Biographies\/Autobiographies. 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