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I have been going through a memoir phase lately where I have been really enjoying reading memoir-type books of various sorts. Here are some I have enjoyed:

- You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know by Heather Sellers: excellent memoir comparing the author's experience with her mentally ill mother and her realization that she suffers from a condition called face blindness where she cannot remember faces.

- The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks: a doctor recounts some of his memorable patients with quirky medical conditions. The first story was about a musician who loses the ability to read sheet music, then letters, then shapes, but can write and compose fluently.

- Sh*t my Dad Says by Justin Halpern: if you can get past the frequent cursing, a hilarious account of a college-aged guy who moves back home with his mother and wise-cracking dad.

- On the Outside Looking Indian by Rupinder Gill: author grew up with old-fashioned Indian parents who never let her and her sisters participate in certain childhood activities (camp, sleepovers etc.) which, at thirty, she decides to finally experience.

- The Winter of Our Disconnect by Susan Maushart: author decides to unplug herself and her three teens from the internet and cell phone for six months.

- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua: much buzzed-about memoir of a woman raising her daughters the 'traditional' Chinese way. In places it was rather shocking, but there was some food for thought underneath it all.

Anyone have any good recommendations for other books I might enjoy?