It was announced that George Bush’s book will be out in bit but his wife beat him with the headlines of her new book today. How the New York Times got a copy I am not sure but they did and the book will be available for sale in May. I will not use this blog to get political but I want you all to understand a life story, life review or memoir is about YOU. It tells of your experience from your point of view which allows for some political opinion but not bashing. Bashing means you have lost your most important readers, your family. Here is the link of the review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/books/28laura.html?partner=rss&emc=rsshttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/books/28
What I am pleased about she has written about one of skeletons in her closet. THE ACCIDENT;”In her new book, âSpoken From the Heart,â Mrs. Bush describes in vivid detail the circumstances surrounding the crash, which has haunted her for most of her adult life and which became the subject of questions and speculation when it was revealed during her husbandâs first presidential run.” That is memoir does really well. We can write about our experiences, framing them from out point of view and release all the emotions from the experience and those emotions that have welled inside your hearts and minds over the years. Releasing secrets is amazingly freeing. Sometimes given the light of day they take on a new face which wasn’t so bad after all. It gives us the ability to talk about how we would have done things differently or not. I think by revealing her torment she may have found her real voice that we never really heard from her all those years in the White House.
I am not happy that she bashes her husbands critics, this what the review says. Once the book is available in the library I will read it and see if this is the New York Times take on her criticism or she really does. Her memoir is not take on anyone but to reveal how these comments made her feel. What she and her husband talked about when she heard them. It has to be her experiences or it is not a memoir but I gotcha.
We are on much safer territory writing about our experiences with those people that verbally harm our love ones. I can not write about those who harmed my own mother. But I can write how those things effected my mother’s skills as a mother. That is my story. If someone did something to someone I loved and I went to talk to them about it I can write about that but not just throw slings and arrows to score points.
It is much better to be the stories we tell than tell stories about others. We write our memories to get the story straight for future generations. We give our perspective so they judge us less harsh on our mistakes but we admit mistakes. We all make them and I congradulate Laura for coming out on the accident. The accident does not define her nor should her husband. Maybe now she will have clearer road to follow and I hope write another book about all the new experiences she is having after leaving public life.
Another good story is what we learn from others mistakes….the list would be long in my case!
Here is a link to George’s new book. I used another source other than New York Times but they too have an article. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/26/george-w-bush-memoir-november