| Throughout his manias, Berhman obsessively recorded everything he did and he relied on those notes to create this detailed memoir. |
| More than just anecdotage, his meandering memoir evokes an innocent time in New Zealand. |
| His book is part memoir, part meditation on the processes of reading and writing, and is thoroughly engaging. |
| His own lost mother makes a cameo appearance in the memoir as a dying woman in Majdanek. |
| The story of his own and his mother's survival is recounted in his memoir with stunning visual detail. |
| Hermite had a kind of positive hatred of geometry and once curiously reproached me with having made a geometrical memoir. |
