is no doubt, a name that you have never read or heard of during your life time. Reuel N. Prinzing is not someone that has been in the limelight or public eye. So why should you read this book? Every person has interesting stories to tell about events that have happened in their life. The problem is most families do not keep historical records so the knowledge of events and stories are soon lost forever. Chapter one begins with a brief history of Reuel’s ancestors, starting with his great grandparents, immigrating to America from Germany in 1854. Chapter two begins with the date of Reuel’s birth, on May 6, 1934. Reuel was born, in Faribault, Minnesota, during the “Great Depression.” His childhood was spent in very humble surroundings. Agreeing with the time old saying, “One picture is worth a thousand words,” the book has an average of fourteen photographs in each of it’s thirty-two chapters. Many wonderful and interesting things happened to Reuel along his journey through life. You will find “My Life Story, Though My Eyes” a very interesting story as you journey along with Reuel N. Prinzing through the first seventy-seven years of his life.
Somehow, nothing I say…
Y’know…at my biz, we get a lot of these; life memoirs, particularly from The Greatest Generation, those who served in WWII. Of late, we’ve started to see an influx of memoirs from those who were groupies, during the 60’s. (yes, really). Look…some folks just think that their lives were interesting. Of course, they don’t have another lived life to compare it to, right?
I think that for those that write down their family experiences and publish them, strictly for their families, that’s a great thing. I mean it. I just think that publishing it online and expecting anyone who’s not related to you, to buy it….well, that’s another.
I had a client (for a textbook, not a memoir) the other day, talk to me about Coming to America. He was a Polish Jew child, taken to the camps with his family. His story is indeed compelling—and if he published a memoir, I’d read it. But very few (remaining, living folks) can tell THAT story today. Very few folks have stories that compelling.
I’ll pass on buying this fascinating tome, even though it’s a free Kindle book.
Gotta love the quotes around “Great Depression” like the author is saying, “Sure, it’s called that, but it was actually quite a joyous time.”
The ‘FIRST SEVENTY-SEVEN YEARS of his life’?? Mind you, looking at the blurb, I can also see how reading it would FEEL that long…