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10 best books like The House by the Sea (May Sarton): One Writer's Beginnings, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Blessing: A Memoir, An Unknown Woman, Daybook: The Journal of an Artist, Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters, Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal, The New Diary: How to use a journal for self-guidance and expanded creativity, A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries, Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement

One Writer's Beginnings
AuthorEudora Welty
ISBN0674639278
Now available as an audio CD, in Eudora Welty's own voice, or as a book.

Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality...
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
AuthorMadeleine L'Engle
Life is a fugue. Our lives and memories overlap and run into one another. Perhaps, if I had not spent 20 days this summer at a hospice house this book would only have 4 stars but for me this is the summer of the great grandfather and not a word was wasted. Five whole stars worth of words.

And then there...
The Blessing: A Memoir
AuthorGregory Orr
ISBN1571781412
I once read that memoirs are testimonies of survival, or something to that effect. If the author can live through that, we can survive our sufferings, too. And so, I can't help but think of my favorite memoirs as gifts, as blessings.

At Glen Workshop East in South Hadley, MA, this summer, I perused...
An Unknown Woman
AuthorAlice Koller
ISBN0553354825
"I walk: desk to couch, couch to table, table to fireside chair, chair to stove, stove to refrigerator, and there I lean, crying... Why am I here? There's no place else to be. What am I doing here? I don't really know. What am I trying to do here? To find some way to live."This is the true story of a courageous...
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...
Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters
AuthorEmily Herring Wilson
ISBN0807085596
A legendary editor at The New Yorker during its first thirty-four years, Katharine S. White was also a great garden enthusiast. In March 1958 she began publishing her popular column, "Onward and Upward in the Garden." Her first column elicited loads of fan mail, but one letter in particular caught her...
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...
A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries
AuthorThomas Mallon
ISBN1886913021
Mallon has assembled a guide to the great diaries of literature -- from Samuel Pepys to Anais Nin. Mallon has written a new introduction for this edition which comments on the political consequences of keeping a journal, as in the former controversy involving Sen. Bob Packwood. A diarist himself, Mallon...
Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement
AuthorDominique Browning
ISBN0743226933
"My story," writes Dominique Browning, the editor in chief of House & Garden, "is about the way a house can express loss, and then bereavement, and then, finally, the rebuilding of a life."

Around the House and in the Garden is a moving narrative, culled from Browning's much-loved monthly...
The Book of Stillmeadow
AuthorGladys Taber
ISBN0060152400
"The ancient house speaks to us. Footfalls sound on the steep stairs, doors open softly, floorboards creak, echoing lives lived here long, long ago. And I think echoes of the lives of our family will be here, too."

When Gladys Taber and her friend Jill bought the shabby seventeenth-century...
Sunlight on the Lawn
AuthorBeverley Nichols
ISBN0881924679
Beverly, Beverly, Beverly...you're impossibly snooty sometimes, you hate women, think babies are revolting and are a bit overly obsessed with your cats and yet...somehow you are so charming, so clever, and so very, very funny. Sunlight was the final book in his famous trilogy...a great capstone...
Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton
AuthorLinda Gray Sexton
ISBN0316782084
Linda Gray Sexton's critically acclaimed memoir is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and the daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty-one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come...
The Journal Keeper: A Memoir
AuthorPhyllis Theroux
ISBN0802118976
A teacher and practitioner of creative writing gives the journal treatment to six years of her life. In her 60s, Theroux (Giovanni's Light: The Story of a Town Where Time Stopped for Christmas, 2002, etc.) recorded her thoughts from 2000 to 2005. Here she presents them in a memoir of passing notions she...
The Measure of My Days
AuthorFlorida Scott-Maxwell
ISBN0140051643
Playwright and Jungian analyst Florida Scott-Maxwell explores the unique predicament of one's later years: when one feels both cut off from the past and out of step with the present; when the body rebels at activity but the mind becomes more passionate than ever. Written when Maxwell was in her eighties,...
A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909
AuthorVirginia Woolf
ISBN0156711605
Nakon smrti svoje majke trinaestogodišnja Virdžinija doživela je svoj prvi nervni slom od kojeg se dugo vremena oporavljala. Kao jedan vid lečenja počela je da vodi dnevnik čiji je srpski prevod prvog (od ukupno šest) toma nedavno objavila pomalo šašava izdavačka kuća „Ukronija“.

Na...
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...
First Comes Love
AuthorMarion Winik
ISBN0679765557
  A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

   When Marion Winik fell in love with Tony Heubach during a wild Mardi Gras in New Orleans, her friends shook their heads.  For starters, she was straight and he was gay.  But Marion and Tony's impossible love turned out to be true enough to produce...
Writing the Memoir
AuthorJudith Barrington
ISBN0933377509
Since Writing the Memoir came out in early 1997 it has sold roughly 80,000 copies and is consistently praised as "the best book on memoir out there." It is thought-provoking, explanatory, and practical: each chapter ends with writing exercises. It covers everything from questions of truth and ethics...
The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty
AuthorCarolyn G. Heilbrun
When she was a young woman, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun made a solemn resolution not to live past "three score years and ten." Taking her own life at the age of seventy, she reasoned, would give closure to a life well lived. But on the advent of her seventieth birthday she realized...
Testament of Friendship
AuthorVera Brittain
ISBN0860681505
Unfortunately, Winifred Holtby is not well remembered today, even in her home country. The woman who wrote this book, Vera Brittain, has scarcely fared better, despite outliving Holtby by more than thirty years. This is a shame, because they are both worth remembering for numerous reasons. I was deeply...
The Diaries, 1931-1965
AuthorDawn Powell
ISBN1883642086
I read this very very slowly, a few of her diary entries at a time. I don't think it would be digestible any other way. It's a diary, of course, so it's not always artful, it repeats itself and is sometimes terribly mundane. I wouldn't recommend it as a work of literature; For that, I would read Dawn Powell's...
My Garden (Book)
AuthorJamaica Kincaid
ISBN0374527768
One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book): she gathers all she loves about...
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