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Timothy James Bazzett

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Geboortedatum
1944-01-27
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Charlotte, Michigan, USA
Woonplaatsen
Reed City, Michigan, USA
Opleiding
Ferris State University
Central Michigan University (BA, MA - English)
Eastern Michigan University (MA - Education)
Beroepen
linguist
Organisaties
United States Army
United States Department of Defense
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Tim Bazzet was born in Charlotte, Michigan, and grew up in Reed City, Michigan. He taught English composition and literature at a small college from 1970-1976. He also served 8 years in the US Army and worked for the Dept of Defense for 21 years. He holds degrees from Ferris State, Central Michigan and Eastern Michigan Universities. He is retired and lives with his wife and two dogs in Reed City. He has published three volumes of memoirs and one biography. He is currently working on another memoir. Married to Terri since 1967; three children and five grandchildren.

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This charming memoir – the second in a series -- is a testament to how ordinary people and ordinary lives can often reach beyond themselves. Timothy Bazzett has recorded – in detail that is an extraordinary testament to the acuity of his memory – the experiences of a young man thrown on the mercy of the world. He was nineteen when he joined the military.

The tale is no doubt a common one shared by thousands of young men since the world began, more specifically American boys during the last century, and yet it reveals these experiences in a way that is thoughtful, realistic and at times moving. Bazzett not only tells the tales of his youth, he recounts the conversations, recreates the places and the people, invokes the history of the times and invites us to relive it with him. He tells of the army, his friends, his travels, his love of music, his sexual awakening, each and every adventure on the road to young manhood. The reader has little trouble joining him on his journey, given the clarity and quality of his writing and the clever addition of both visual memorabilia (photos, airline tickets, illustrations of weapons, etc.) and philosophical meditations on the nature of memory, the meaning of the past.

At times, I thought Bazzett could have pared it down a bit. I could see how a powerful scene was diminished through too much telling and I would have liked him to focus more and be more selective in his details, but I've leveled that criticism at Dostoevsky, too. Although it is very much a “guy book” (his words, with which I concur), as a woman I still found it entertaining and thought-provoking.
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kambrogi | 2 andere besprekingen | Jul 19, 2010 |
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Having not read Bazzett's first memoir Reed City Boy, I didn't know what to expect. I usually enjoy reading about the lives and experiences of others. However, I found myself having to force my way through this book. The foul language was somewhat of a turn-off, although I'm sure it was necessary to preserve the authenticity of the story. I believe there is a specific audience who would enjoy this story, unfortunately it just didn't appeal to me.
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MTGirlAtHeart | 2 andere besprekingen | Nov 28, 2009 |
A very conversational memoir, this slim book traces Tim Bazzett's early childhood through high school growing up Catholic in small town Michigan. The first in a series of books (a trilogy so far), this book tells the everyday experience of Bazzett's growing up years. It introduces the reader to his family and to the friends and acquaintances who were important in forming the boy he was. He shares his Catholic school upbringing, his role in the family hierarchy, and the ordinary existence of a boy doing his chores, tackling his homework, and discovering girls in mid-twentieth century small town America.

Bazzett acknowledges his debt to his youngest brother and his mother in recreating his story but even so, he has an amazing recall of events and people from his past. The memoir is mostly chronological but also organized thematically in chapters that tackle things as varied as the way he and his brothers played in their free time to extended family visits to driving to seeing his first (nearly) naked woman. The writing is well done and this nostalgic reminiscence of a book, this personal letter to his children, will definitely appeal to readers who remember this innocent time in their own lives as well as in the country. For those a bit younger, the evocation of time and place and the delights of childhood and growing up have a more historical flavor but personalize that history and offer a peek into daily life that our history books in school ignored.

Thanks to author Tim Bazzett for sending me a copy of this book to review.
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whitreidtan | 1 andere bespreking | Nov 11, 2009 |
4605. Love, War & Polio The Life and Times of Young Bill Porteous, by Timothy James Bazzett (read 12 Aug 2009) This is a biography of the early life of the author's friend, Bill Porteous. It is very laudatory, even hagiographical, of its subject and his wife, which is to be expected and is a reason I ordinarily don't read biographies of living persons written by friends of the subject. But the events in the life of Porteous are full of interest and the author adds nice touches in discussing books, movies, songs, and radio programs mentioned by Porteous in letters to his wife--which letters are quoted from extensively and then commented on by the author. The struggle against the polio which overtook Porteous in October 1945 is the main subject of the book, and anyone interested in polio should read the book, which details the difficult and successful struggle Porteous needed to undergo.… (meer)
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Schmerguls | Aug 12, 2009 |

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