Maggie O'Farrell
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| Original Title: | I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death |
| ISBN: | 147224074X (ISBN13: 9781472240743) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Wellcome Book Prize Nominee for Longlist (2018), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2018), Reading Women Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2018) |
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I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's life in near-death experiences. Intelligent, insightful, inspirational, it is a book to be read at a sitting, a story you finish newly conscious of life's fragility, determined to make every heartbeat count.A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. A terrifying encounter on a remote path. A mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital. Shocking, electric, unforgettable, this is the extraordinary memoir from Costa Novel-Award winner and Sunday Times bestselling author Maggie O'Farrell.
It is a book to make you question yourself. What would you do if your life was in danger, and what would you stand to lose?
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| Title | : | I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death |
| Author | : | Maggie O'Farrell |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 292 pages |
| Published | : | August 22nd 2017 by Tinder Press |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography |
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Ratings: 3.97 From 19176 Users | 2742 ReviewsAppraise Regarding Books I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death
4.5/5. There were three things that made this book stand out to me:- The nonlinear narrative structure the seventeen chapters, the eponymous "seventeen brushes with death", are told non-chronologically, all covering a certain point in Maggie O'Farrell's life spanning from early childhood until now. It was never confusing to read, but made for an interesting and wholly original account of a life. - The writing style, which I fell in love with from page one. It's absolutely beautiful written4****"We are, all of us, wandering about in a state of oblivion, borrowing our time, seizing our days, escaping our fates, slipping through loopholes, unaware of when the axe may fall.This is the memoir of Maggie O'Farrel documenting the near bushes of death that have been riddled through out her life. Each chapter introduces a different time and age of the author and her experiences grazing near to death. We are witness to the encounters with death that the author has endured, for example; near
OMG OMG OMG! Pogo stick time!Dear Maggie OFarrell,Im bouncing high, zigzagging through your 17 brushes with death. Barefoot because my socks were knocked off. I cant stop! Yep, Im downright manic! What an amazing memoir you wrote! One of the best books Ive read this year!I am I am I am absolutely in love with your book. I cant help it that Im stuttering. Its that or remain speechless, which isnt my style. My brain is on fire! Matchy-matchy: My head, your language. Oh, your tone! The way my brain
Unless a memoir literally shifts me -changes my thinking - transforms me in some major way - I tend to retreat to my standard 3 star rating.I didnt equally enjoy each story in this collection - Its a mix collection for me. A few stories felt embellished. In the middle of the book - I started to feel as if I had enough. A couple of the stories felt a little narcissistic....but then I felt sad for Maggies sick child - heck I felt awful for Maggie, too, when she was a child in the hospital
"We are, all of us, wandering about in a state of oblivion, borrowing our time, seizing our days, escaping our fates, slipping through loopholes, unaware of when the axe may fall."One day early in February, we had a rare day of sun and sixty degrees after having just endured subzero temperatures the week before brrr! I could not get my sneakers on fast enough. I ran out the door without a jacket to get a little fresh air and exercise. Now, I very rarely listen to audiobooks. Dont get me wrong, I
4.5★I still cannot bear anyone to touch my neck: not my husband, not my children, not a kindly doctor, who once wanted to check my tonsils. I flinch away before I even register why.This is from the first chapter, Neck 1990, which is when she was 18 or so. There are 17 chapters, each titled with a part of the body and a year, ranging from 1975, when she was three, to today.She introduces the book with this quotation from Sylvia Plath: I took a deep breath and listened to the oldbrag of my heart.
I have read three of her novels and count Maggie OFarrell as one of my favorite writers and I know I have to get to those that I havent read. This memoir is as beautifully written as her novels. OFarrell shares with us some very personal experiences, memories of times in her life when she was in danger, close to death. As in her novels, she had me feeling and thinking about the complexities of life, sometimes the danger that lies near all of us. While she writes about things that happened to
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