BooksList.Best
Search

A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries

10 best books like A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries (Thomas Mallon): At Home with Beatrix Potter: The Creator of Peter Rabbit, Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey, Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion, Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books, The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World, Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice, Daybook: The Journal of an Artist, Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal, The New Diary: How to use a journal for self-guidance and expanded creativity

At Home with Beatrix Potter: The Creator of Peter Rabbit
AuthorSusan Denyer
ISBN0810921065
The creator of Peter Rabbit, Samuel Whiskers, and Jemima Puddle-Duck, Beatrix Potter (18661942) is one of the best-loved children's book authors of all time. Yet few in America are aware of the role she played in protecting some of England's most beautiful landscapes and in designing romantic interiors...
Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments
AuthorMichael Dirda
ISBN0393324893
Intimate, humorous, and insightful, Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the Washington Post and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. From a first reading of Beckett and Faulkner at the feet of an inspirational high-school English teacher...
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
AuthorLillian Schlissel
ISBN0805211764
More than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The frontiersmen have become an integral part of our history and folklore, but the Westering experiences of American women are equally...
Old Books, Rare Friends: Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion
AuthorMadeleine B. Stern
ISBN0385485158
Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature much in the same way. The "Holmes & Watson" of the rare book business, Rostenberg...
Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
AuthorHelene Hanff
ISBN0140089365
This is the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road, and of all the things its success has brought her. Hanff recalls her serendipitous discovery of a volume of lectures by a Cambridge don, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. She devoured Q’s book, and, wanting to read all the...
The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World
AuthorPaul Collins
ISBN1596911956
The first popular narrative history of Shakespeare's First Folio, the world's most obsessively pursued book.

One book above all others has transfixed connoisseurs for four centuries—a book sold for shillings in the streets of London, whisked to Manhattan for millions, and stored deep...
Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice
AuthorChristina Baldwin
ISBN0553352024
In this classic book you will discover the intimate journey of personal and spiritual development that is possible through the practice of journal writing. In Life’s Companion, acclaimed author Christina Baldwin offers readers guidance and inspiration to this powerful way of expanding our inner...
Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
AuthorAnne Truitt
ISBN0140069631
Renowned American artist Anne Truitt kept this illuminating and inspiring journal over a period of seven years, determined to come to terms with the forces that shaped her art and life. Her range of sensitivity—moral, intellectual, sensual, emotional, and spiritual— is remarkably broad. She...
Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal
AuthorAlexandra Johnson
ISBN0316121568
When I picked this book up on the "value" shelf at Barnes and Noble I expected it to be a cheezie "how to dig into your soul and find who you are" self help writing book. So now years later I truly can not remember why I actually bought it. Perhaps its 3 dollar price ticket had something to do with it.

It...
The New Diary: How to use a journal for self-guidance and expanded creativity
AuthorTristine Rainer
ISBN0874771501
The New Diary is about a completely modern concept of journal writing. It has little to do with the rigid daily calendar diary you may have kept as a child or the factual travelogue you wrote to recall the Grand Canyon. Instead, it is a tool for tapping the full power of your inner resources.

The...
Journal to the Self: Twenty-Two Paths to Personal Growth - Open the Door to Self-Understanding by Writing, Reading, and Creating a Journal of Your Life
AuthorKathleen Adams
ISBN0446390380
What I learned from this book is that there are no rules when it comes to personal journal writing. This one aspect has made the idea of keeping my own journal less daunting.

A good book for beginning journalers... it lists some guidelines for keeping a journal, a list of items one may want to collect...
Reading in Bed: Personal Essays on the Glories of Reading
AuthorSteven Gilbar
ISBN1567920950
What do Emerson, Proust, Nabokov, and Calvino all have in common beyond the fact they were all great authors? They all wrote fascinating essays on the art of reading books. Steven Gilbar, a lawyer who is foremost a reader, selected and edited a delightful compilation of essays on books and reading for...
Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey
AuthorDeena Metzger
ISBN0062506129
Pros:

-This book has some of the most creative and deepest writing prompts I've ever experienced.
-Those who follow the writing exercises will derive both personal and professional insight.
-This book can be used by writers of all levels.

Cons:
-The author disses "genre"...
Note to Self: On Keeping a Journal and Other Dangerous Pursuits
AuthorSamara O'Shea
ISBN0061494151
Keeping a journal is easy. Keeping a life-altering, soul-enlightening journal, however, is not. At its best, journaling can be among the most transformative of experiences, but you can only get there by learning how to express yourself fully and openly. Enter Samara O'Shea.

O'Shea charmed...
Creative Journal Writing: The Art and Heart of Reflection
AuthorStephanie Dowrick
ISBN1585426865
From the #1 creativity publisher in the country comes our latest creativity bestseller?Creative Journal Writing? the ultimate book for those who are looking to use this powerful tool to heal, expand, and transform their lives.

In this exceptionally positive and encouraging book, Stephanie...
A Life of One's Own
AuthorMarion Milner
ISBN0874771935
How often do we ask ourselves, ‘What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?’ In A Life of One’s Own Marion Milner explores these questions and embarks on a seven year personal journey to discover what it is that makes her happy.
On its first publication, W. H. Auden found the book...
Recovering: A Journal
AuthorMay Sarton
May Sarton's sixty-sixth year, 1978-79, was a difficult time: a cherished relationship came to an end, she had a mastectomy, she fought against depression. But, she writes, "When there is personal darkness, when there is a pain to be overcome, when we are forced to renew ourselves against all the odds,...
Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times
AuthorAndrew Piper
ISBN0226669785
Andrew Piper grew up liking books and loving computers. While occasionally burying his nose in books, he was going to computer camp, programming his Radio Shack TRS-80, and playing Pong. His eventual love of reading made him a historian of the book and a connoisseur of print, but as a card-carrying member...
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists
AuthorIrene Taylor
ISBN1841951722
Disappointing. I have read enough diaries to know that these are not "the world's greatest diarists" -- or rather, some of them are nothing special and the ones who are good diarists benefit not at all from being taken in small out-of-order chunks. I'm giving up after reading the fourth entry on the Titanic...
Return to Sodom & Gomorrah
AuthorCharles Pellegrino
ISBN0380726335
Unlock doors to the lost worlds of the Bible -- from the Garden of Eden to the ruins of Babylon

Did a volcano part the Red Sea? Have scientists found Eve? Was the pharaoh of the Oppression a woman? Did the Jordan River really cease flowing the day Jericho fell?

A brilliant author, scientist,...
The True and the Questions: A Journal
AuthorSabrina Ward Harrison
ISBN0811848620
In her books Spilling Open, Brave on the Rocks, and Messy Thrilling Life, Sabrina Ward Harrison shared her thoughts, fears, hopes, and joys through vibrantly illustrated journal entries. Her new work, The True and the Questions, invites readers to allow themselves to "spill open" and create their...
The Diary of "Helena Morley"
AuthorHelena Morley
ISBN0374524351
In 1952, soon after her arrival in Brazil, Elizabeth Bishop asked her new Brazilian friends which of their country's books she should read. They recommended Minha Vida de Menina - a diary kept by a young girl who lived in a mining town at the end of the nineteenth century. As a labor of love, Elizabeth Bishop...
About
Feedback
© BooksList.Best 2024