During the presentation of Grief Girl, there was a really interesting slide that said "Life's Not Fair" on it. I'm enjoy typography, or the style and appearance of written words, and the slide had fantastic typography on it that inspired me to draw more of my own. I found the title of Girl, Interrupted intriguing when I found out that it is based off a painting that the author saw at the Frick Museum. Then, Service made me slightly scared when I heard about the cities where the author was serving. He said that "Every window could have a shooter," which is really scary and makes me surprised that he would risk his life like that. I was disgusted when I heard that the author of A Million Little Pieces started drinking at the ago of 10 and began doing drugs at the age of 12. It's really sad to hear that anyone would do drugs, especially at such a young age, so the novel did not appeal to me at all. I also was surprised when I heard he had a huge conflict with Oprah over the facts in the book, but was happy to hear that she was a nice person and apologized to him for how angry she got. A Stolen Life sounded really interesting to me because the story is so unbelievable and happy in the end because she gets found. Everyone teaches children to run away when somebody asks them for help, but sadly she got tased when she tried to run, which makes me sad. However, I'm very happy that she wrote the book to tell everyone in the world about the horrible things the man did to her. It makes me happy because he did not want anyone to find out about what he did, but she stood up for herself and told everyone about the awful things that he did. Finally, it gave me hope hearing that she hadn't written her name in 18 years while she was captured, but finally got to after she was saved. Finally, The Pact inspired me because one of the authors wanted to be a dentist since he was 8 years old and he followed his dreams to eventually become one. It was also really inspiring to hear that all 3 writers grew up to be very successful doctors or dentists, showing that you can achieve anything you want as long as you work hard enough.

I found Angela's Ashes to be very depressing because almost every child in the book dies. While on the other hand, Don't Put Me In, Coach, seemed like a memoir with a very odd style of humor. It was a very immature style of humor that might appeal to someone, but didn't necessarily interest me. Another BS Night In Suck City obviously has a very interesting title. I also think it is really interesting that the homeless shelter that the main character worked at happened to be the exact shelter that his dad would walk in to when he needed it. I noticed in Through My Eyes that the mother was supposed to die when she had her son, but she didn't which made the memoir sound like it has a lot of hope throughout it. The Big Jump had a fantastic quote stating "Nothing is impossible, until someone does it." The quote is an obvious one, but nobody would really think of saying that which interested me. I also enjoyed the quote because it's inspiring, saying that people should achieve what nobody has ever done because then they will be making the impossible, possible. I also liked how the presenter showed the connection to the title, The Big Jump, with the memoir itself, being about a jump from motor cross to race car driving. Scar Tissue showed me how messed up the authors dad is because he introduced his son to drugs, and at a very young age, which I think are both wrong. A Compassionate Approach on Addiction Intervention talked about how the author had his life changed when he went to the same asylum that his sister did, even though she actually needed to be there when he did not. And I like that he started speaking at interventions to help others after he had been cured. I was interested in The Last Lecture because the author achieved every single dream he made when he was a kid, which really inspired me. I also really enjoyed his ideas about achieving dreams and his positive outlook on everything. Finally, A Long Way Gone scared me when I saw the video of the man who had his fingers cut off and was force to kill his own son. I think that it's good that the author fights to save child soldiers now.

Hunters was the first memoir that was presented. It was really intense watching a room cleaning, where the sniper goes in and makes sure that a house is safe. Also, it was good when I heard that the snipers aren't heartless, they realize they are taking someones life, but that could mean saving many other lives. Next was Beyond the Vertical, which was amazing in the fact that the author had created a bunch of new climbs that nobody had ever done before. I really liked the video, in the presentation, that showed some of the incredible climbs that a professional climber can accomplish. Then, No Limits had a lot of interesting facts about the size of Micheal Phelps and how his wingspan is way further than it should be. I also really liked how there was a quote placed in the middle of the presentation that related to the title: "You can't put limits on anything". Out of the Blue helped readers understand the story behind why the football player does the salsa dance every time he gets a touchdown. Some people may wonder why he does that, or think it's weird, but he tells the story as to why he does it which is a really close story to him. The next memoir, Decoded, amazed me when I heard that Jay Z is worth $42 million. As for the presentation, I really liked that the song was embedded in between the lyrics so that you could read them as you heard the song. Finally, the presenter for, The Mechanic's Tale, did a really good job by embedding the video into the slideshow, next to the quote, that way the presenter did not have to switch to the internet to play the video, but instead could play it right from the presentation.