I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me
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Plot Summary of I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me

"For Jimmy Breslin, the discovery of a life-threatening brain aneurysm was a call to reflect on his life. With funny anecdotes and serious retrospect, Breslin writes of his youth in Queens, his marriages, and his career as an author and columnist. A sudden need to explore his brain spurred Breslin's exploration of the meaning of his own life through his mind and memories.

Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout.

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Jessica Marler, Resident Scholar

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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
job/profession: - journalist/editor
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
Period of greatest activity? - 1950+

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - writer
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Nationality - American (!)
How sensitive is this person? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Smarter than most other people

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 3 (some)
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
City? Yes
City: - New York
Century: - 1980's-Present

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Book makes you feel? - thoughtful
Is book humorous? Yes
If humorous, kind of humor - Dry-cynical - gentle
Unusual Style: - a lot of flashback and forwards
Writer's slant towards subject: - favorable
Story of entire life, or part? - story of set of events during life
Autobiography? Yes
Pictures/Illustrations? - None
How much dialogue in bio? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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