WooReads Patron Book Reviews: Biography Edition

First, enjoy these book reviews. Next, browse our Staff Picks: Biography Booklist. Last, read some biographies (or whatever you like) and log them into WooReads: Adult Reading Challenge.

By logging books into the reading challenge, you can help us reach our community goal to read 5,000 books before the end of May. To date, we have read 3,132 books. If you log more than 20 books you will be entered into a drawing to win a Kindle Paperwhite. To catch up, you can log books read from September 2018 and on!

Happy reading!

Becoming

By Michelle Obama

A wonderful (in the true sense of the word) autobiography that included surprisingly personal insight about being "First Lady", wife, mother and activist. I love Michelle Obama even more after reading her book. (The book was on the "popular reads" shelf!!! What luck!!! Thank you, WPL!)

~Agnes W.

Last Days of Theresienstadt 

By Eva Noack-Mosse

I read a lot of Holocaust and World War Two related books - fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, diaries. I feel it is an important responsibility to remember the experiences of the past.

 While I have read a lot about the experiences of the Holocaust and World War II, I haven’t read much about mixed marriages in Germany, which is what this memoir/diary is about. This diary/memoir is the experiences of Eva, a Jewish woman who was married to an Aryan German. Her experience seems different than many other German Jews of that time; she was from an affluent family and married to an Aryan. She was privileged in many ways. Yet, she and much of her family were not able to escape the horrors of what would become known as the Holocaust. She spent the end of war in Theresientstadt, a hybrid concentration camp and ghetto, working in the Central Evidence office. Due to her work assignment, she had access to camp records, which she took note of in her secret diary.

~Cynthia O.

Born to be Posthumous , the Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

By Mark Dery

This revealing book about the illustrator (my favorite), Edward Gorey had me spellbound. It went into great depth about Gorey's thinking and foibles and I wasn't really expecting that. The book is a must for all Edward Gorey fans.

~Agnes W.