The People April This or That Tag!

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The This or That People April Tag!
Created by Scallydandling About the Books and Bouquins & Books, who both tagged me:
• This or That? A book t...
• This or That? A Book T...
1) Big, fat and detailed biographies or short and succinct biographies?
2) Celebrity memoirs or average Joe memoirs?
3) Complete correspondence or selected letters?
4) Memoirs written when the events are fresh or memoirs written with hindsight?
5) Gossipy biographies or scholarly biographies?
6) Diaries of ordinary life or diaries of extraordinary events?
7) Arty memoirs or sporting memoirs?
8) Gritty autobiographical writing or inspirational autobiographical writing?
9) Biographies of historical figures or biographies of contemporary figures?
10) Memoirs of happy days or memoirs of tragic days?
Bonus prompt: The Complete Diary of Samuel Pepys (over 4000 pages or 116 hours and 16 minutes of audiobook) or Selections from the Diary of Samuel Pepys (which can be as short as 120 pages or 3 hours and 55 minutes of audiobook)?’
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[@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711]

A boring book is a bad book is a great mantra for anyone involved with writing and publishing. Well done for doing this without invoking the curse. Mind your step this week please.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

I've been tagged twice for this, so I thought I'd check in with an authority on big books and historical biographies to get a n overview of the lay of the land.

[@bouquinsbooks]

The curse is not transmissible by tag. At least, not that I am aware of…

[@saintdonoghue]

Wait, you’re not sure??? I feel faint …

[@scottpearson5644]

I have often heard you say celebrity biographies are never written by the celebrity. I have recently read Shirley Chisholms book "Unbought And Unbossed" and it seemed genuine to me. Do you think she had a ghost writer also?