Longhorn Reviews » autobiography http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/reviews Just another Blogs2.lib.utexas.edu Blogs weblog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:39:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Favre http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/reviews/2008/12/03/favre-by-brett-favre-and-bonita-favre-with-chris-havel/ http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/reviews/2008/12/03/favre-by-brett-favre-and-bonita-favre-with-chris-havel/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:44:07 +0000 tdomf_4d405 http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/reviews/?p=62 This autobiography of Brett Favre is heartwarming. When you read on what he has gone through in his life and the challenges he has faced, it’s just unreal how badass of a football player he is. He’s played sick, hurt, cold, hot. He’s incredible. My biggest role model in life. I would highly recommend this book.

]]> http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/reviews/2008/12/03/favre-by-brett-favre-and-bonita-favre-with-chris-havel/feed/ 1 The Book of Margery Kempe: The Autobiography of the Madwoman of God http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/reviews/2008/11/10/the-book-of-margery-kempe-the-autobiography-of-the-madwoman-of-god/ http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/reviews/2008/11/10/the-book-of-margery-kempe-the-autobiography-of-the-madwoman-of-god/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:05:25 +0000 Meghan http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/reviews/index.php/2008/11/10/the-book-of-margery-kempe-the-autobiography-of-the-madwoman-of-god/ Who would have thought that the first known biography in English would be written by a woman, brewery owner, Christian mystic, and mother of 14 named Margery Kempe. Margery was illiterate so she dictated her biography to a scribe between 1436 and 1438. Her biography begins with her conversion experience which was heralded by a vision of Christ in her bedroom one night. The story then follows Margery through pilgrimages across Europe and the Holy Land. She also tells about her heresy trial in England and her burgeoning mystical life. After the trial the judge gave her a piece of paper saying that she was not a heretic. Margery used this piece of paper many many times when people complained to their local religious leaders about her loud crying, laughing and preaching. His opinion, like most of her contemporaries seemed to be that she was she was religiously insane. He was also surprised that she followed Catholic dogma exactly. She never deviated from the church’s teaching even when she was ranting and raving.

The book is amazingly lively. You get insight into the personality
of a woman who thought Jesus told her to wear white, live apart
from her husband and give voice to her religious opinions loudly and continually. Her neighbors, her child and her husband complained regularly about her religious activities. The book gives dramatic accounts of every day experiences, in Margery’s
home town, in many English regions, and as far away as Brandenburg, Rome and Jerusalem. Just reading about how she traveled in Europe and how she got to Jerusalem is illuminating.

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