It is hard to believe that Happy Days first appeared on TV in January 1974 just two months before my first child was born and ended a year after my fifth child was born in 1983. Having four boys who at one time or another slicked their hair back and pretended they were “the FONZ” seems like yesterday!
I have spent the last week reading “Being Henry.” This memoir touched my heart! Passages were hard to read about his childhood! His parents escaped Nazi Germany in 1939 and settled in New York. His father was hard on Henry and definitely not nurturing. While reading this entire book, I felt like I was having a conversation with Henry. I laughed! I cried! I got angry!…I wanted his father to have a “do over.”
Winkler used a “stream of conscience” approach in his writing with many small sections in his chapters. I was amazed that he was accepted into Yale’s Master program in fine arts with his dyslexia which he did not know was the problem with his difficulty in reading….
I plan on recommending BEING HENRY to my book club composed high school teachers bot present and retired. There is so much to discuss! For my second reading, I plan on getting the audible so I can enjoy hearing this special memoir in his voice. My thanks to Celadon Books and BookishFirst for an ARC of this book.
I have spent the last week reading “Being Henry.” This memoir touched my heart! Passages were hard to read about his childhood! His parents escaped Nazi Germany in 1939 and settled in New York. His father was hard on Henry and definitely not nurturing. While reading this entire book, I felt like I was having a conversation with Henry. I laughed! I cried! I got angry!…I wanted his father to have a “do over.”
Winkler used a “stream of conscience” approach in his writing with many small sections in his chapters. I was amazed that he was accepted into Yale’s Master program in fine arts with his dyslexia which he did not know was the problem with his difficulty in reading….
I plan on recommending BEING HENRY to my book club composed high school teachers bot present and retired. There is so much to discuss! For my second reading, I plan on getting the audible so I can enjoy hearing this special memoir in his voice. My thanks to Celadon Books and BookishFirst for an ARC of this book.