Memoir Blog #3

I finally finished Come Back and it was a really touching book. The first few chapters were hard to read, but once I got past there the book had me hooked. I learned several things from this memoir. One thing I learned is no matter how awful you think your life is, it could always be worse. My life has been perfect compared to Mia's. I also learned that when everything else fails, love remains. Seeing how much Claire loved Mia, even when she was a complete mess, was so touching and reassuring. It showed that no matter how much we mess up, someone will still love us. The book's ending is so amazing. To see how far Mia's come in just a couple years is incredible. I was happy that she graduated out of the program and went on to college. It was also great to see the rebuilt mother-daughter relationship between Claire and Mia. My favorite character of the book was Sunny. She was always so light-hearted. And surprisingly enough, I did not see her being a Lesbian coming. And I love when she announces it in group. It was so funny how everyone was like " well we all knew that". And the way Sunny said it makes it that much better. This book actually transformed me a little. Reading through the seminars made me look at my own life. It also helped me to see what a large affect each individual person has on all the people around them.

Memoir Blog #2

I am on page 205 of Come Back. I really like how the book is co-written by Claire and Mia. The way they each tell their side of the story is really interesting. I like how Mia shares what she was thinking at the time. I also like Mia's tone. The way she talks is very entertaining. You can read the teenager in it. I also like Claire's writing. She adds a very paranoid, overprotective mother tone to the story. You can feel how scared she is and see the hurt in her life. I love this book. I am hooked. The first few chapters were hard to stomach. Listening to them talk about what happened to Mia as a child was a very hard. How anyone could do that to their own child is beyond me. Once Mia got to Morava, the book began to fly by. At first, I thought how could parents send their children to another country to this school. But I began to see the reasoning and the help the school provided the students. I am not sure how the memoir is going to end. I feel that Mia is going to recover and get better. But I am not entirely sure. It is going to be a very interesting journey to recovery though.

Memoir Blog #1

If I were to write my own memoir, I would focus try to focus less on my life and things about me. I would tell about recently losing my great uncle. I would also tell about my best friend having cancer. I would tell my perspective of what it's like when your life gets  turned upside down. People take so much for granted in life. We acknowledge that bad things such as death, HIV, and cancer exist. But we don't think they will affect our lives. If you had asked me 4 months ago, there was no way I would have thought that my best friend had lymphoma. I would tell my story. I would show how I coped when life got complicated. The main thing I would want people to get from my memoir is that nothing is set in stone. Life can change in a heartbeat. I would like people to understand this and learn to live for each day because no one knows what will happen tomorrow.