Sentence examples similar to help memoir from inspiring English sources

Consider the queen of the self-help memoir, Gretchen Rubin.

The self-help memoir hybrid boasts certain clear advantages over its alternatives.

Now comes Eat Pray Love, a Julia Roberts vehicle (released on 24 September) based on the bestselling self-help memoir.

But it's time to christen a new subgenre: the self-help memoir, a kind of long-form personal narrative fused with life coaching.

The self-help memoir may owe something to a backlash against what Ben Yagoda, in his 2009 book "Memoir: A History," called "misery memoirs".

But rather than redemption, the self-help memoir culminates in improvement — fitting for a culture in which the most fashionable addictions are lattes and ellipticals.

A rare example of a lyrical self-help memoir, the book manages to describe the cleansing power of painful labor without romanticizing it.

"After hearing his side, I was convinced he was telling the truth," Ms. Smith wrote in her recent self-help memoir, "Good Self, Bad Self: Transforming Your Worst Qualities Into Your Biggest Assets".

But after the success of 2010's "Getting the Pretty Back," a self-help memoir about turning 40 that made the L.A. Times bestseller list, she was emboldened.

Thanks to such tact, self-help memoirs are less likely to incur wrath and lawsuits.

The difference today is that the lessons of self-help memoirs are more explicit, and more grounded in everyday life.