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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (LUST) 36 reviews
Nancy Pearl
Sasquatch Books, 2003
The Sweetest Plum
+ Delightful!
+ Entertaining on its own
+ Introduction to Great Books I Might Have Missed
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Reading with Deeper Eyes: the Love of Literature and the Life of Faith 4 reviews
William H. Willimon
Upper Room Books, 1998
Bold expression of literature and Christian spirituality
+ Eye opener
+ Literary Love
+ Awesome and Mystical Collection
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Recipe for a Book Club: A Monthly Guide for Hosting Your Own Reading Group: Menus & Recipes, Featured ...2 reviews
Mary O'Hare, Rose Storey
Capital Books, 2004
GREAT for newly formed book clubs!
+ great for book clubs or just book fans!
What a wonderful idea! Now you can gather a few friends together, sip a glass of wine, munch on fine food that matches your monthly theme and sit back to talk about your book selection. Mary and Rose even give you examples of the questions that could be asked and discussed. Everything you need ...
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A Place Called Home: Twenty Writing Women Remember 1 review
Palgrave Macmillan, 1997
Is nostalgic
From the essays that stick with me, I realise that each writer had a different way of approaching 'home'. If some have recalled their childhood in connection with it, some have written about their experiences in having a home of their own.
The best I liked was Meg pie's 'The Lake' where she ...
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Book Lover's Guide to Great Reading: A Guided Tour of Classic & Contemporary Literature2 reviews
Terry W. Glaspey
InterVarsity Press, 2001
Excellent Guide
+ If one could only live long enough to read all these books!
This is a wonderful guide to all kinds of great books. Glaspey features novels, classics from English literature, and a host of books from theology to Christian spirituality. For a confirmed bibliophile this is a book to return to again and again. I'll use this book for many years as I continue ...
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If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit75 reviews
Brenda Ueland
Graywolf Press, 1997
If You Want To Write
+ A Writer is a Person Who Writes!
+ Study writing
+ A Book for Every Writer!
+ Liberating
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life305 reviews
Anne Lamott
Anchor, 1995
Attention Writers: Keep This Book on Your Shelf
+ Touching and funny
+ Beyond the book - "Real" Life Tips
+ Teacher resource
+ fantastic
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Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers1 review
Perennial, 1994
Superb Collection
Cahill presents in chronological order writings from a disparate group of fifty women authors. She provides a brief and informative introduction to each writer with a biographical sketch that includes the author's motivation and history including family, education, career and works published. ...
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Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity22 reviews
Ray Bradbury
Joshua Odell Editions, 1994
Soul Transfusion
+ Restoration
+ Great Quality!
+ Care and feeding your Muse
+ A Ray of Sunlight; Tapping Spirit Inside
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Take and Read: Spiritual Reading: An Annotated List5 reviews
Eugene H. Peterson
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995
A continual source of worthwhile reading
+ Take and Read this Book
+ A joyous adventure!
+ Spiritual Reading - rediscovering the missing jewel
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The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life34 reviews
Steve Leveen
Levenger Press, 2005
Delicious Insights for Book Lovers & Readers!!
+ Short but powerful
+ Read to enhance your life!
+ great book, very helpful ideas
+ Finding Time and Space to Read More Books!
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary58 reviews
Simon Winchester
Oxford University Press, USA, 2004
How Could You not Like this Book
+ Quality Control
+ The Triumph of English
What can you say about an author who can take the history of the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary, and make it not only interesting but very informative. From the original idea in 1847, to the finishing of the first edition in 1928, Winchester takes us through the trials and tribulations ...
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On Writing819 reviews
Stephen King
Pocket, 2002
Don't wait for the muse...show up every day
+ really good stuff
+ Impassioned instruction from the King of horror
+ On Writing by Stephen King
+ Great Resource
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Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art (Wheaton Literary Series)20 reviews
Madeleine L'Engle
Shaw Books, 2001
Breathing New Life
+ beautiful book
+ Fantastic!
+ Exactly what I was looking for
+ redeeming writing, celebrating art
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A Room of One's Own41 reviews
Virginia Woolf
Harvest Books, 1989
Still Relevant and Important
+ Smooth transaction
+ Obligatory Reading
+ unavailable...
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Walking a Literary Labryinth: A Spirituality of Reading7 reviews
Nancy M. Malone
Riverhead Trade, 2004
An Approach To A Spirituality of Reading
+ "Lectio divina" capaciously rendered, in a splendid memoir...
+ Well er ... uh... this may be for you.
+ Satisfying and Helpful
+ An Approach To A Spirituality of Reading
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BECOMING A WRITER47 reviews
Dorothea Brande
Mariner Books, 1981
The inspiration for The Artist's Way
+ A classic
+ A book to help you learn to create your own "Writer's Magic"
+ Head and shoulders above anything else
+ Simple advice from a book ahead of its time
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Women Who Love Books Too Much: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings, and Prolific Pens from the Algonquin Hotel to the ... 7 reviews
Brenda Knight
Conari Press, 2000
On every woman's bedside table, & hopefully some men's...
+ On every woman's bedside table, & hopefully some men's...
Portray after portray of women writers, from expected Sapho to not so expected Barbara Cartland & today's news J.K. Rowlings are presented in this fantastic book, nice to look at with its fantastic layout & nice to feel the weight of in the hand. The authors are revealed under imaginative ...
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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala Pocket Classics)166 reviews
Natalie Goldberg
Shambhala, 2006
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
+ This is a wonderfully helpful book! I've recently read a wonderful example of fascinating memoir writing:
+ Easy reading & helpful instructions
Natalie Goldberg published this book in 1985 to critical acclaim. Her teaching revolutionized how writing is taught in the US. "Writing without stopping," one of the basic tenants of her book, is breakthrough, opening, connecting to what is deepest in you. It allows you access to your own deepest ...
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The Writing Life38 reviews
Annie Dillard
Harper Perennial, 1990
One writer's practice and wisdom
+ Excellent Book for Any Creative
+ A Gem of a Book
+ Dangerously Engaging
+ Good to have a cup of tea with once in a while
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