Fifty Days of Solitude
10 best books like Fifty Days of Solitude (Doris Grumbach): A Broom of One's Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning & Life, Albertine en cinq temps, Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place, The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy, Plant Dreaming Deep, A Fine Old Conflict, The Bad Mother, Memory Board, In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Dying, Perfection of the Morning: A Woman's Awaking in Nature
| Author | Nancy Peacock |
| ISBN | 0061357871 |
For the twice-published novelist, reading an article about herself in the National Enquirer—under the headline "Here's One for the Books: Cleaning Lady Is an Acclaimed Author"—was more than a shock. It was an inspiration.
In A Broom of One's Own, Nancy Peacock, whose first novel was...
| Author | Michel Tremblay |
| ISBN | 2760901300 |
Albertine, en cinq temps est probablement le chef-d'œuvre dramatique de Michel Tremblay. La profondeur de l'émotion s'y marie avec une forme ingénieuse et sans failles. Un incontournable pour tout amateur de théâtre. Albertine est l'un des grands personnages de la famille fictive qu'a construite...
| Author | Susan Wittig Albert |
| ISBN | 0292719701 |
What does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan Wittig Albert's life, and in this beautifully...
| Author | Priscilla Gilman |
| ISBN | 0061690279 |
“The Anti-Romantic Child is remarkable. This haunting and lyrical memoir will be an invaluable and heartening guide to all who find themselves in similar situations and indeed anyone confronting an unforeseen challenge.”—Marie Brenner, writer for Vanity Fair and author of Apples and Oranges
With...
Plant Dreaming Deep is a memoir of writer May Sarton's first ten years in her first home in Nelson, NH.
I first read this book when in my twenties and in full stride as an ex-urbanite in the deep north woods of Minnesota. I felt a deep kinship with Ms. Sarton, even then, yet what a different perspective...
| Author | Jessica Mitford |
| ISBN | 0394726154 |
'A Fine Old Conflict' is the sequel to 'Hons and Rebels' the first part of Jessica Mitford's extraordinary life story. It tells of her experiences in the Communist Party which she joined in California during World War II and left in 1958, illustrating, with biting humour, a neglected chapter of American...
| Author | Marguerite Andersen |
| ISBN | 1927583977 |
Translated from the award-winning French novel La mauvaise mère, prolific author Marguerite Andersen fictionalizes the important moments of her life resulting in this unflinching account of her relationship with her three children and her years spent following her caprices and lovers, trying...
| Author | Jane Rule |
| ISBN | 0941483029 |
For forty years David Crown has kept his twin sister Diana a secret. Until his wife's death, not even his children -- Diana's nieces and nephews -- have known about Diana and her lifetime companion Constance. But now David seeks to bridge over those years and recapture the closeness of childhood, to become...
| Author | Eve Joseph |
| ISBN | 1443426717 |
A journey into the land of death and dying seen through the lens of art and the imagination
Part memoir, part meditation on death itself, In the Slender Margin is an exploration of death from an “insider’s” point of view. Using the threads of her brother’s early death and her twenty years...
| Author | Sharon Butala |
| ISBN | 1886913161 |
It is a very personal book, and yet the writer is very careful to keep certain things at bay. There is much in her thoughts and experiences that resonate with human beings.
Writing about her life in nature, she says; "I inhabit another world now ... that is worked out physically...
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0786715359 |
From one of the world's most passionately engaged literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection to date of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, ranging from 1983 to 2005. Composed of autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book reviews, and introductory pieces written...
| Author | Rumer Godden |
| ISBN | 0688086292 |
Reading Rumer Godden's fiction novels can often be enjoyable unto the sublime. Reading the non-fiction memoirs? They are interesting in the moves and constant changes but not in the same class of reading enjoyment for me. And the outlets that enabled her to keep writing instead of "getting a job" as...
| Author | Adele Crockett Robertson |
| ISBN | 0783816464 |
The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and poignant memoir of a young woman's single-handed struggle to save her New England farm in the depths of the Great Depression. Recently discovered by the author's daughter, it tells the story of Adele "Kitty" Robertson, young and energetic, but unprepared...
The House That Pinterest Built
| Author | Diane Keaton |
| ISBN | 0847860000 |
At once a style guide, an inspirational tome, and a how-to volume on creating one's home, this book will serve as a go-to reference for all those seeking to spur their own creativity as they embark on the creation of home. When Diane Keaton decided that she wanted to build her own home from the ground up,...
Shy and sheltered as a young woman, Kathleen Norris wasn't prepared for the sex, drugs, and bohemianism of Bennington College in the late 1960s—and when she moved to New York City after graduation, it was a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire. In this chronicle, Norris remembers the education...
| Author | Diana Souhami |
| ISBN | 1842120336 |
Gertrude Stein and Alice Babette Toklas met on September 8, 1907, in Paris, and remained together from that day until Gertrude's death in 1946. They became a legendary couple, photographed by Stieglitz, Man Ray & Cecil Beaton, painted by Picasso, and written about in the works of Hemingway, Paul...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0590848844 |
I thought this was an interesting way to approach a children's book. First, the sentence structure was different, which may or may not cause confusion for a child trying to construct his or her own sentences. I like that the book was a story, but taught the life cycle of a butterfly. It was very informational...
The Face: Cartography of the Void
A profound and gorgeously wrought short memoir by acclaimed Nigerian-born author and poet Chris Abani that explores his personal history and complex sense of identity through a meditation on the face.
In The Face: Cartography of the Void, acclaimed poet, novelist, and screenwriter...
To Live Until We Say Good-Bye
| Author | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross |
| ISBN | 0684839482 |
Me encantan los libros de esta señora, aunque cada vez me resultan más lacrimógenos y duros, cuando debiera ser al revés, yo más adulta y más resuelta, etcétera. En esta ocasión es un reportaje fotográfico sobre personas con enfermedades terminales, que lo muestra todo pero TODO, y es hermoso...
Nora and Fern's relationship as mother and daughter is a tumble of love and distrust. To Nora, her daughter is an enigma -- at the same time wonderful and unfindable. Fern sees her mother as treacherous -- for busting up their family to move in with her lover, Jeanne. As their lives become complicated by...
A More Excellent Way: Be in Health: Pathways of Wholeness, Spiritual Roots of Disease
| Author | Henry W. Wright |
| ISBN | 0967805929 |
Becuase I was so sick, I attended this program personally several times.
I did not get healed (but I sure hoped I would)
but that is not why I do not recommend it.
(Only God can promise healing so I do not hold it against this ministry that
I was not healed)
I say stay away from the...
Eat Live Love Die: Selected Essays
| Author | Betty Fussell |
| ISBN | 1619027852 |
Betty Fussell is an inspiring badass. She’s not just the award-winning author of numerous books ranging from biography and memoir to cookbooks and food history; not just a winner of the James Beard Foundation’s Journalism Award who was inducted into their “Who’s Who of American Food and Beverage”...
France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child
| Author | Alex Prud'Homme |
| ISBN | 0500519072 |
Through intimate and compelling photographs taken by her husband Paul Child, a gifted photographer, France is a Feast documents how Julia Child first discovered French cooking and the French way of life. Paul and Julia moved to Paris in 1948 where he was cultural attaché for the US Information Service,...
