Sentence examples for memoir picks from inspiring English sources

The memoir picks up considerably once its author is attending high school in Marine, Minn., with classmates who share neither his ruthlessness nor his ambitions.

As Stanford statistician and magician Persi Diaconis says in the foreword to those memoirs, "Pick up anything he wrote.

Things were tamer this weekend than last year, when to punctuate a reading and a conversation about his memoir, Billy Idol picked up a guitar and broke into Rebel Yell.

"A Writer's Life," I figured, would be a traditional memoir that picked up where "Unto the Sons" left off, in the 1940's, when he was 12.

I think the special pleasure is that it might mean that readers who usually just like novels, or memoirs, might pick up a book of poems".

In the Memoir section, he picked up a copy of "Tuesdays with Morrie," by Mitch Albom, and confessed himself a devotee of self-help books.

Mr Hornby has stripped the original memoir back, deftly picking highlights and lowlights without the need to clock in every single mile.

The film version of Cheryl Strayed's memoir "Wild" is picking up steam: Reese Witherspoon has signed on to portray the author.

She recounts the trip in her memoir, "Wild," the first pick for Oprah Winfrey's rebooted book club.

The parallels to Clinton and her own glass-ceiling-breaking are obvious they even picked matching memoir titles.

The first wave was Hillary's own memoir, Living History, but this picks up where that left off.