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A memoir is only a slice of a life. This "questory" (quest + history) covers more than the beloved cake-eating hippo. Not Just a Piece of Cake is a candid memoir of the realistic process of the process of creativity, via anecdotes.
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Reading Gatsby as an adult reveals its greatness!
- De Mark en 10-06-14
De: Maureen Corrigan
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Bookworm
- A Memoir of Childhood Reading
- De: Lucy Mangan
- Narrado por: Lucy Mangan
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one. She was whisked away to Narnia and Kirrin Island and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. She wandered the countryside with Milly-Molly-Mandy and played by the tracks with the Railway Children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love this!
- De M. Ashby en 03-12-20
De: Lucy Mangan
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My Life with Bob
- Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
- De: Pamela Paul
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens, Pamela Paul
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 62
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Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for 28 years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its current perch on a shelf over her desk - reliable if frayed, anonymous-looking yet deeply personal. This book has a name: Bob. Bob is Paul's Book of Books, a journal that records every book she's ever read.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An uncanny mirror and a celebration of book love
- De Cherilyn Parsons en 07-28-19
De: Pamela Paul
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The Stephen King Companion
- Four Decades of Fear from the Master of Horror
- De: George Beahm
- Narrado por: Fleet Cooper, Claire Christie
- Duración: 24 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
The Stephen King Companion is an authoritative look at horror author King's personal life and professional career, from Carrie to The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. King expert George Beahm, who has published extensively about Maine's main author, is your seasoned guide to the imaginative world of Stephen King, covering his varied and prodigious output: juvenalia, short fiction, limited edition books, best-selling novels, and film adaptations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Kingopedia: Books, Movies, Bio and Art
- De tru britty en 02-28-16
De: George Beahm
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The Memoir Project
- A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text For Writing & Life
- De: Marion Roach Smith
- Narrado por: Marion Roach Smith
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 164
Whether or not one has lived an exceptional or dramatic life, we inherently understand that writing memoir—whether it’s a book, blog, or just a letter to a child - is the single greatest portal to self-examination. Stop treading water in writing exercises or hiding behind “writer’s block” and learn how to write with intent. Marion Roach Smith’s disarmingly frank but wildly fun tactics offer you simple and effective guidelines that work. Your legacy beings now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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amazing what you can learn from brevity
- De Schwartz-Burrill en 09-15-11
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The Enchanted Hour
- The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
- De: Meghan Cox Gurdon
- Narrado por: Meghan Cox Gurdon
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 248
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 219
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A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful, and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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advice to take to heart
- De Brian en 04-30-20
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The Art of Making Memories
- How to Create and Remember Happy Moments
- De: Meik Wiking
- Narrado por: Meik Wiking
- Duración: 4 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 94
Memories are the cornerstones of our identity, shaping who we are, how we act, and how we feel. In his work as a happiness researcher, Meik Wiking has learned that people are happier if they hold a positive, nostalgic view of the past. But how do we make and keep the memories that bring us lasting joy? The Art of Making Memories examines how mental images are made, stored, and recalled in our brains, as well as the "art of letting go" - why we tend to forget certain moments to make room for deeper, more meaningful ones.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not art
- De Ched97 en 12-20-22
De: Meik Wiking
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story
- A Life of David Foster Wallace
- De: D. T. Max
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 383
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 342
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 341
David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his generation, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D. T. Max sets out to chart Wallace’s tormented, anguished, and often triumphant battle to succeed as a novelist as he fights off depression and addiction to emerge with his masterpiece, Infinite Jest.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Max avoids hagiography or a sycophant's biography
- De Darwin8u en 06-11-13
De: D. T. Max
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Flesh Wounds
- De: Richard Glover
- Narrado por: Richard Glover
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family...Richard Glover's favourite dinner-party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?' It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed toy collector.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a Meaningful Reflection
- De Awarenessing en 11-28-15
De: Richard Glover
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The Last Love Song
- A Biography of Joan Didion
- De: Tracy Daugherty
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 26 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City, when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and cowrote screenplays and adaptations together. Didion is well known for her literary journalistic style in both fiction and nonfiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveted for 1591 miles
- De Kaysi12 en 04-11-16
De: Tracy Daugherty
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Philip Roth
- The Biography
- De: Blake Bailey
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 31 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
"I don't want you to rehabilitate me," Philip Roth said to his only authorized biographer, Blake Bailey. "Just make me interesting." Granted complete independence and access, Bailey spent almost 10 years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and listening to Roth's own breathtakingly candid confessions. Tracing Roth's path from realism to farce to metafiction to the tragic masterpieces of the American Trilogy, Bailey explores Roth's engagement with nearly every aspect of postwar American culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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moved
- De Michael en 08-18-21
De: Blake Bailey
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And So It Goes
- Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
- De: Charles J. Shields
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 74
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New York Times best-selling author and biographer Charles J. Shields crafts this fascinating portrait of literary icon Kurt Vonnegut. The first authorized biography of the influential American writer, And So It Goes examines Vonnegut’s life, from his childhood to his death in 2007, and explores how the author changed the conversation of American literature.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Probably only for die hard Vonnegut fans
- De Watery M en 12-22-12
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Process
- The Writing Lives of Great Authors
- De: Sarah Stodola
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 154
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Ernest Hemingway, Zadie Smith, Joan Didion, Franz Kafka, David Foster Wallace, and more. In Process, acclaimed journalist Sarah Stodola examines the creative methods of literature's most transformative figures. Each chapter contains a mini biography of one of the world's most lauded authors, focused solely on his or her writing process.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- De Davina Rush en 04-10-15
De: Sarah Stodola
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Georgette Heyer
- Biography of a Bestseller
- De: Jennifer Kloester
- Narrado por: Phyllida Nash
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 60
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Georgette Heyer remains an enduring international best seller, read and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by today's best-selling authors. Despite her enormous popularity, she never gave an interview or appeared in public. Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, when she was 17 in order to amuse her convalescent brother. It was published in 1921 to instant success, and 90 years later it has never been out of print.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heyer as a person
- De Jerri C en 06-15-15
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Meghan: A Hollywood Princess
- De: Andrew Morton
- Narrado por: Charles Armstrong
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 128
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 112
From Andrew Morton, the New York Times best-selling author of Diana: Her True Story, comes a revealing, juicy, and inspiring biography of Meghan Markle, the American actress who won Prince Harry's heart. When Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were set up by a mutual friend on a blind date in July 2016, little did they know that the resulting whirlwind romance would lead to their engagement in November 2017 and marriage in May 2018. Since then, our fascination with the woman who has smashed the royal mold has rocketed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Book offers no new material
- De Jean en 04-24-18
De: Andrew Morton
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Parfit
- A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
- De: David Edmonds
- Narrado por: Zeb Soanes
- Duración: 13 h y 14 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 34
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Derek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a public intellectual. Yet his ideas have shaped the way philosophers think about things that affect us all: equality, altruism, what we owe to future generations, and even what it means to be a person. In Parfit, David Edmonds presents the first biography of an intriguing, obsessive, and eccentric genius.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- De Anna Karenina en 07-05-23
De: David Edmonds