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Heating Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs

10 best books like Heating Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs (Beth Ann Fennelly): The Book of Delights, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life, To Night Owl from Dogfish, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order, Eavesdropping, Harry's Trees

The Book of Delights
AuthorRoss Gay
ISBN1616207922
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages—that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed...
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
AuthorAnne Bogel
ISBN0801072921
For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us. Our books are a part of who we are as people, and we can't imagine life without them.

I'd Rather Be Reading is the perfect literary...
To Night Owl from Dogfish
AuthorHolly Goldberg Sloan
ISBN0525553231
From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters.

Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. Bett Devlin, who's fearless,...
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
AuthorDani Shapiro
ISBN1524732710
The author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets—a real-time In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological...
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
AuthorRuth Reichl
ISBN1400069998
Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet, during which she...
I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
AuthorMary Laura Philpott
ISBN1982102802
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“I've spent my adult life prowling bookshelves for the modern-day reincarnation of my favorite authors—Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin—all rolled into one...Good news: I have finally found their successor.” —Elisabeth Egan, The...
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
AuthorMira Jacob
A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.

“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment.”—Celeste...
An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order
AuthorNancy Klein Maguire
ISBN1586483277
In 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of Parkminster, the largest center of the most rigorous and ascetic monastic order in the Western world: the Carthusians. This is the story of their five-year journey into a society virtually unchanged in its behavior and lifestyle since its foundation...
Eavesdropping
AuthorStephen Kuusisto
ISBN0393349586
Blind people are not casual listeners. Blind since birth, Stephen Kuusisto recounts with a poet's sense of detail the surprise that comes when we are actively listening to our surroundings. There is an art to eavesdropping. Like Annie Dillard's An American Childhood or Dorothy Allison's One or Two...
Harry's Trees
AuthorJon Cohen
ISBN0778364151
The first thing you learn when you climb a tree is to hold on. Now it’s time for Harry to learn to let go…

Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane, lifelong lover of trees, works as an analyst in a treeless US Forest Service office. When his wife dies in a freak accident, devastated, he makes his way...
Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
AuthorKelly Corrigan
It’s a crazy idea: trying to name the phrases that make love and connection possible. But that’s just what Kelly Corrigan has set out to do here. In her New York Times bestselling memoirs, Corrigan distilled our core relationships to their essences, showcasing a warm, easy storytelling style. Now,...
Morning Haiku
AuthorSonia Sanchez
ISBN0807069108
This new volume by the much-loved poet Sonia Sanchez, her first in over a decade, is music to the ears: a collection of haiku that celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of revered African American figures in the worlds of music, literature, art, and activism. In her verses, we hear the sounds...
The Undertaker's Daughter
AuthorToi Derricotte
ISBN0822962004
I didn't particularly like a few of the poems in here, especially the ones about Telly, the poet's fish which perhaps were intended it be a kind of release from the more serious poetry that precedes and follows them.

But there are very worthwhile poems in here, many of them written in prose, poems...
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