I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death (Hardcover)

from Beamis12

Love her fiction so wanting to read her memoir was a no brainier. A different take for sure as she recounts the near death experiences she has encountered in her life. Reading this made me think of all the mishaps I have had, that could have turned fatal. Something I think we all share to various...

from vahankinson

This is the first book I have read by Maggie O'Farrell after I found out about this author after watching a talk she did about her new book Hamnet. I decided to read her memoir first and I have found that some of the stories of her brushes with death have stayed with me months later. I was shock...

from villemezbrown

Reviewed from an Advance Reader's Edition sent to one of the libraries where I work.Quite amazing!I'd heard good things about this book, so when I saw it sitting in the staff break room, I thought I'd try the first few pages. O'Farrell's prose immediately sucked me in and won me over. Each chapte...

from sriddell

Maggie O'Farrell's memoir is told through a series of short stories about her near brushes with death - of which there were enough to fill a book without even including events she was too young to remember. Her stories are told with the same warmth and wry sense of humor she shares in her books....

from thewestwing

This is an emotional and dark collection of essays about a life. I know that some of these stories will stay with me for a long time.