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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (平装)
by Anne Lamott
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Teens, Memoir, Writting |
| Market price: ¥ 158.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
A warm, generous and hilarious writting guide; sidesplittingly funny, patiently wise and alternately cranky and kind. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-28 00:00>
A favorite college professor handed me this book my senior year, after she read a very personal piece of my writing. I can honestly say that reading this book was a turning point in my life. Anne Lamott's writing is so authentic and personal that you feel she is your friend, that she has written this book for you. Lamott gives practical, humorous advice to get you through writing and life, just as the title suggests. Bird by Bird makes you realize that neither writing nor living, nor writing about your life, is as frightening and overwhelming as it sometimes seems. Lamott tells of the trials that have forged her personality... - her decision to be a single mother, overcoming alcoholism - and when you read her nonfiction, you sense you can trust her because she is wise beyond her years. This is someone who has really lived her life, with all the pain and joy required.
If you have never read anything by Anne Lamott, I suggest Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies. I also loved her weekly columns..., and hope she resumes writing columns someday.
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Heather (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-28 00:00>
When I was in 5th grade, I had a horrible teacher named Mrs. Aldridge. Being only 10, I was still relatively optimistic. The world had not yet made me cynical. I still believed what my parents had always taught me, that I could do whatever I wanted if I set my mind on it. Mrs. Aldridge taught me a good (or, rather, bad) lesson that led me to not believe this. Growing up I had always wanted to be a writer. The mere sight of a freshly sharpened pencil created a burning desire in me to put words to paper. Mrs. Aldridge killed that desire in a matter of minutes. Instead of nurturing and encouraging this desire, she criticized and ridiculed this student's early, unexperienced efforts. The desire of that 10-year-old lay dead and buried for 13 years.
Anne Lamott's wonderful book, "Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life," served to resurrect a bit of that lost desire. Encouragement served with some laughter and a few tears, Lamott writes honestly about the writing life. She pulls no punches when it comes to matters like publication and all the other highs and lows of a writers life. She gives writing tips, inspiration and the amazing encouragement only a teacher of writing can. Lamott's humor shines through and makes "Bird by Bird" a highly enjoyable, yet educational read.
And, sorry, Mrs. Alridge, but Ms. Lamott taught me something that you never could... to follow my heart and write because I enjoy it, whether I am ever published or not. Because to do what you enjoy makes life worth living. And I can do it, if I set my mind to it.
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