The word "reminiscences" is correct and usable in written English
It is most commonly used as a noun which refers to fond memories or experiences of the past. For example, "I spent the evening reminiscing about my childhood days with my grandmother."
(MC Scott bases her vivid accounts of battle and camp life on 20th-century soldiers' reminiscences).
But A Country Child, Uttley's overpoweringly rich and detailed reminiscences about her late-Victorian childhood in a farmhouse in Derbyshire fed my very soul as surely as her lived experience did hers.
So, no, 20 years on there is no place here for dewy-eyed reminiscences.
Che Parts I & II (2008) are faithful to Che Guevara's Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War and Bolivian Diary respectively, but scrupulously remove character and emotion.
The play is a mix of Bernie's reminiscences in prison, his memories of an all-night meeting with Solomon Galkin, and his secretary's answers to unheard questions on a witness stand (presumably posed by the Securities and Exchange Commission).
She has managed to knit together personal reminiscences, brief historical essays and some useful suggestions for potential reforms into a stimulating and thoughtful description of how America's court system actually operates.And yet the book will do little to reverse her reputation among many legal observers as an earnest but plodding mediocrity, the very opposite of the flamboyant Douglas.
The veteran now cooks dog.Also redacted were Mr Chinn's reminiscences about Saigon Joe's, a restaurant he started in the early days of opening up.
In 1999 he published his witty reminiscences of the decade or so he shared with the brilliant but impossible collector and art historian, Douglas Cooper, in Provence (during this time Mr Richardson became friendly with Picasso and hatched the idea of a biography).
Far from being a sign of yearning for reform, support for Hu could indicate repudiation of Zhao, about whom reminiscences are still strongly discouraged.
It could have done with more of its author's engaging reminiscences, like his description of his lawyer, an impoverished duchess who would invariably greet him at the door of her house with the words, "It's the maid's day off".
Mr Freedman mines the reminiscences of Sharon Levine, the Newark daughter of immigrant parents, and other ex-campers to evoke a culture as recent as "Runaround Sue" but as dead as ancient Rome.
