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Writer's Cave - Thinking About Memoir (AARP)

Thinking About Memoir (AARP)

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.06692
EAN: 9781402752353
ISBN: 1402752350
Label: Sterling
Manufacturer: Sterling
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher: Sterling
Studio: Sterling
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Summary: Okay...
Comment: Too much of this book seemed like I'd stumbled across her diary and was now reading it. Which can be a lot of fun, BUT...it wasn't very interesting. Some of her personal stories seemed shoe-horned to fit her point. The exercises were all right, not very challenging or original though. I liked it well enough because it got me to think about the format of memoir, but I think that this book should be very clearly marketed to beginning writers.
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Summary: Wanna dive right in? This is a great jump start.
Comment: This delightful little book (and I do mean little) that I picked up on a whim surprised me. One of the things that troubles many new memoirists, I believe, is - strange as it sounds - where to begin and which stories to tell. Deliberately selecting scenes from the past sometimes delivers forced results. Abigail Thomas invites memoirists to enter memory and meaning through "side doors" and she offers numerous writing exercises to help you get going. I completed several of them and will likely use the results. A treat of a book for one endeavoring to write personal stories.
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Summary: Not just thinking anymore, but actually writing!
Comment: In her book, "Thinking About Memoir," Abigail Thomas vanquishes a lot of preconceived notions of what a memoir should be. After reading her little book and doing some of the exercises, I went back to my memoir which I had started ten years ago with renewed energy and perspective. Her book is a great release and shows how to make it a true accounting of your life.
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Summary: Expectations
Comment: I expected more. I learned just as much from the review/excerpt in AARP magazine as I did from the book.
Vincent
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Summary: Short, sweet and a nice read
Comment: I was a little aprehensive when this book arrived in the mail and it was so small. However, I'd read an excerpt from it in a magazine and was curious, so I gave it a go -- and I'm glad I did. This author shows that you don't have to multiple a lot of words to get the point across, and by being so succinct in her presentation I found myself becoming actively involved in the process to make the book very meaningful for me. I've marked up my copy of the book with notes and will return to it as I start writing my own memoirs.
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