Sentence examples for memoir though from inspiring English sources

Rather than a memoir, though, Talese had decided to write a book "set within the milieu of a restaurant".

Even here in the stylised world of the middle-class literary memoir, though, there are distinctions to be drawn.

The book is much more than a Holocaust memoir, though; it is a love letter to the father who never came back: "I loved you so much that I was happy to be deported with you," she declares.

One also learns, toward the end of the memoir, though by then without surprise, that Millet first realized that she'd never had a proper orgasm when, in her late twenties or early thirties, alone in bed, she finally achieved one with the help of a "Japanese vibrating dildo".

This is not a memoir, though, but an A B C, and Azarian's full-page prints, each framed by a black line border, don't belong to any specific year but seem to spring from an amorphous era of rural American life.

The real pleasure of the memoir, though, is Taylor's voice — a disarming blend of candor, warmth and self-­deprecating humor.

He is condescending about Kathleen Raine who was kind about him in her memoirs, though without remotely getting his measure, which is perhaps what irritated him.

The debate between the two sides was perfectly captured in an anecdote that both Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright recall in their memoirs, though to very different effect.

Bill Clinton, who built his brand on his gift for the artful dodge, just got a record $10 million advance for his memoirs, though you'd sooner expect a full reckoning from O.J. Simpson.

McCourt is often blamed for the current explosion of misery memoirs, though he points to the success of programmes such as Oprah and Jerry Springer as further indicators of the insatiable appetite for real-life stories.

Nominally, Vanger wants Blomkvist to research his memoirs, though what he's really after (or what he says he's after) is the identity of whoever abducted his teenage niece more than 40 years before.