Lap Dancing for Mommy: Tender Stories of Disgust, Blame and Inspiration
10 best books like Lap Dancing for Mommy: Tender Stories of Disgust, Blame and Inspiration (Erika Lopez): Ben's Trumpet, Scribbling in the Sand, Mastering Creative Anxiety: 24 Lessons for Writers, Painters, Musicians, and Actors from America's Foremost Creativity Coach, Snow White, Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years, Evidence of Angels, Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice, Gifts from the Sea, Snow Music, Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen
| Author | Rachel Isadora |
| ISBN | 0688109888 |
The artwork in this diverse beginning story is amazing. It captures the mood of a hot city night and the jazz club groovin’ out hits. Each page is its own tone. It conveys the mood of Ben, our character. It is also Escher-like at points. I love it.
Ben lives close to the zig zag jazz club and he loves...
| Author | Michael Card |
| ISBN | 0830823174 |
Best known as a singer/songwriter, Michael Card is also a gifted author and teacher. In Scribbling in the Sand, he looks at a familiar narrative from an imaginative perspective and highlights aspects of the story that we may not have seen before.
A woman caught in adultery was brought before...
In his decades as a psychotherapist and creativity coach, Eric Maisel has found a common thread behind what often gets labeled writer’s block,” procrastination,” or stage fright.” It’s the particular anxiety that, paradoxically, keeps creators from doing, completing, or sharing...
| Author | Josephine Poole |
| ISBN | 0679826564 |
Text: pretty much the standard story line, a bit on the wordy side.
No idea why the author added the bit about the animals not killing Snow White because she was so pretty. That's right, little girls, being pretty is so important that even wild animals care. No, really, you can pet the bear, honey. You're...
| Author | Diane di Prima |
| ISBN | 0140231587 |
In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she...
| Author | Suza Scalora |
| ISBN | 0061243434 |
I don’t normally review non-fiction, but when emailed by Suza Scalora asking if I would like to review Evidence of Angels, I thought I would give it a go. As I have an idea for my own fictional story regarding angels, Evidence of Angels is classed as research.
This review is going to be a little...
| Author | Christina Baldwin |
| ISBN | 0553352024 |
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...
| Author | Natalie Kinsey-Warnock |
| ISBN | 0440419700 |
Quila MacFarlane is devastated by the death of her mother, especially now that it’s just her and her father on Devils Rock where her father is the lighthouse keeper. They can’t leave and almost no one ever comes to visit them. But the morning after a storm, something floats ashore that changes their...
| Author | Lynne Rae Perkins |
| ISBN | 0066239567 |
This book was confusing to me. Book was about a kid that was trying to find his dog, that ran out as soon as he opened the door. With the child trying to find his dog, there were little other side scenes that the author wanted to portray. As I was reading, the text seemed to be all over the place, and I honestly...
| Author | Hildegard of Bingen |
| ISBN | 0939680211 |
An introduction to the life and work of Hildegard.
• Reveals the life and teachings of one of the greatest female artists and intellectuals of the Western Mystical Tradition.
• Contains 24 full-color illustrations by Hildegard of Bingen.
• Includes commentary by Matthew...
| Author | Oriah Mountain Dreamer |
| ISBN | 0060011963 |
In her previous books, Oriah Mountain Dreamer has challenged readers to live with passion and honesty, to embrace the true, fallible, human self. What We Ache For is a moving and eloquent call to delve deeply into our creative selves, to do our creative work, and offer it to the world.
The creative...
| Author | Rebecca Donner |
| ISBN | 1401215378 |
Face it: some people don't like pistachio nuts, and no one will ever convince them otherwise. However, those people who like pistachio nuts like them a WHOLE LOT.
That is to say that this book isn't for just anyone; you have to be able to enjoy sophisticated and spare storytelling style which...
| Author | Katherine Arnoldi |
| ISBN | 0786864206 |
This is a great little book that I have never been able to find since I bought it for a dollar at a local bookstore. I really hope it hasn't gone out of print, because I want to buy tons of copies to donate to libraries. It's a straightforward story of a 17 year old woman from a working class community and the first...
We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?: Stories
Achy Obejas writes stories about uprooted people. Some, like herself, are Latino immigrants and lesbians; others are men (gay and straight), people with AIDS, addicts, people living marginally, just surviving. As omniscient narrator to her characters' lives, Obejas generously delves into her...
| Author | John Updike |
| ISBN | 0823417662 |
One of the first major award-winning titles to feature an interracial family, A Child's Calendar combines the star power of John Updike and Trina Schart Hyman.
Celebrate the little moments that make each month special in this Caldecott Honor book, featuring twelve poems about a family and...
Hearing from God: 5 Steps to Knowing His Will for Your Life
| Author | David Stine |
| ISBN | 1501147323 |
Pastor David Stine, the lead pastor at DC Metro Church, has created a practical and informational 40-day guide to hearing God, understanding His will, and discovering the path He has in store for your life.
Throughout his time as a lead pastor, members of his congregation have asked Pastor...
| Author | Bernard Meehan |
| ISBN | 0500277907 |
The Book of Kells is a masterpiece of medieval art—a brilliantly decorated version of the four Gospels with full-page depictions of Christ, the Virgin and the Evangelists as well as a wealth of smaller decorative painting. The strange imagination displayed in the pages, the impeccable technique...
| Author | John Steptoe |
| ISBN | 0064434427 |
One day my momma told me, "You know you're gonna have a little friend come stay with you." And I said, "Who is it?" and "For how long?" That's when Stevie moved in with his crybaby self. He played with my toys and broke them, and he left dirty footprints all over my bed. But then Stevie left again, and I missed...
A Celebration of Beatrix Potter
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0241249430 |
2016 marks the 150th birthday of Beatrix Potter, making it the perfect time to pay tribute to the beloved author/illustrator with A Celebration of Beatrix Potter!
With illustrious tales of characters like Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, and Jemima Puddle-Duck, Beatrix Potter established...
| Author | Rob Reger |
| ISBN | 0811847713 |
A bona fide anti-hero of international fame, Emily's first two books have taken the world by dark-and-stormy might with more than 130,000 copies of the US editions sold, plus editions in 5 different languages. Now, Emily invites her brooding devotees to come even closer with a trip deep into her psyche...
SARK's Journal and Play! Book
| Author | S.A.R.K. |
| ISBN | 0890877025 |
I love this journal.
The size is great, 8 1/2 x 11, big, easy to write in (although not so great for portability).
It is full of SARK's drawings and writing suggestions, really helps motivate me to write when I can't think of anything to write about.
I mostly use it as my "therapy"...
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists
In this day and age, when art has become more of a commodity and art school graduates are convinced that they can only make a living from their work by attaining gallery representation, it is more important than ever to show the reality of how a professional, contemporary artist sustains a creative practice...
| Author | Kate Millett |
| ISBN | 0252068874 |
He leído por ahí que este libro es difícil de leer, porque va de aquí para allá, antes después, sí no, blanco negro, me voy me quedo, delirio bucle desquicio y al final te cansas de escribir porque tu mano no puede seguir el ritmo de tus pensamientos. También dicen que Kate está loquita, que si pensamiento...
