The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process
By: Francesca Lia Block
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For devotees of Bird by Bird and The Artist's Way , a memoir-driven guide to healing through the cr…
Want to Read $ 15.99"I can arrange words on a page but I can't seem to organize books on a shelf. Over the years, My Secret has shelved thousands and thousands, held each one in his hands. He thinks they might have seeped into him, through his skin, as much as the books he's read. At night and on his days off we spend hours talking about writing. He reads three or four books at a time. When he's not working at the bookstore he goes to other bookstores around the city and browses until closing time. Holding more volumes in his hands, filling himself up with words."-Francesca Lia Block, The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process
"I can arrange words on a page but I can't seem to organize books on a shelf. Over the years, My Secret has shelved thousands and thousands, held each one in his hands. He thinks they might have seeped into him, through his skin, as much as the books he's read. At night and on his days off we spend hours talking about writing. He reads three or four books at a time. When he's not working at the bookstore he goes to other bookstores around the city and browses until closing time. Holding more volumes in his hands, filling himself up with words."-Francesca Lia Block, The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process
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1. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
By: Lena Dunham , Joana Avillez
3.29
Format: 265 pages, Hardcover
"There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to b… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Energy attracts energy."-Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
"Everyone hates a suit. Event the suits."-Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
"Luxury is nice but creativity is nicer."-Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
"Being a student was an enviable identity."-Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
2. The Good House
By: Tananarive Due
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
The home that belonged to Angela Toussaint's late grandmother is so beloved that townspeople in Sac… read more
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3. Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
By: Lisa Cron
4.21
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Following on the heels of Lisa Cron's breakout first book, Wired for Story , this writing guide rev… read more
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- art
- psychology
- nonfiction
- writing
- crafts
- self help
"We don't turn to story to escape reality. We turn to story to navigate reality."-Lisa Cron, Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
"In a nutshell: A story is about how the things that happen affect someone in pursuit of a difficult goal, and how that person changes internally as a result."-Lisa Cron, Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
"But the simple fact remains that without the first half of the story, there can be no second half. The first half establishes where the problem came from and who the protagonist is to begin with, so …"-Lisa Cron, Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
4. Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, #9)
By: Charlaine Harris
3.66
Format: 162 pages,
The vamps have been out for years, and now the weres and shifters have decided to follow the lead o… read more
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5. The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.34
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Ursula K. Le Guin explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to w… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- writing
- books about books
"There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
"The premise is: everybody's like me and we all think alike. The corollary is: people who don't think like me don't matter."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
"To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
"A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
6. Beyond the Bright Sea
By: Lauren Wolk
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the critically acclaimed Wolf Hollowcomes a moving story of identity and belongi… read more
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7. The Dead House
By: Dawn Kurtagich
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Part-psychological thriller, part-urban legend, this is an unsettling narrative made up of diary en… read more
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8. What Kind of Woman: Poems
By: Kate Baer
4.07
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships in being a mother, a w… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"When someone asks for the secret to a happy marriage, remember you don't know. This is not a happy ending. This is not a fairy tale. This is the beginning of a life you haven't met."-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"What time will you be home? What time do you think you may be home? What time should we wait for you outside on the lawn while the pasta boils over and the baby cries because he misses you? Oh, befor…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
"In the morning, I take your picture in front of the sign, gaps in your teeth. I do not say a life without you is not worth living. I do not say I've memorized every inch of your frame. Instead, I wav…"-Kate Baer, What Kind of Woman: Poems
9. This Wretched Valley
By: Jenny Kiefer
3.33
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more
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10. The Heroine's Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture
By: Gail Carriger
4.46
Format: 210 pages, ebook
Tired of the hero’s journey? Frustrated that funny, romantic, and comforting stories aren’t taken … read more
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- crafts
- nonfiction
- writing
- books about books
11. Monica
By: Daniel Clowes
3.95
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more
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12. A Certain Hunger
By: Chelsea G. Summers
3.77
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Doro… read more
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"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger
"I enjoy a man who’s kissed with a yeasty beastliness."-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger
"Junk food was rebellion, rebellion was femininity, femininity was junk."-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger
"I knew from a young age that motherhood was a cage I never wanted to inhabit."-Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger
13. I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
By: Kate Baer
4.28
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Kate Baer returns with a collection of erasure poems created from notes she received from followers… read more
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- nonfiction
"I wanted art / poetry was hidden in so much in so many ways"-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
"women want to live without fear For thousands of years We were not believed this is what we carry"-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
"You were designed to find satisfaction in your excellence Your nature cannot be retrofitted to the male without permanent damage to the original design"-Kate Baer, I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
14. The Magician’s Daughter
By: H.G. Parry
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
A young woman raised on an isolated island by a magician discovers things aren’t as they seem and m… read more
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"It's a change. You never know what might happen, do you?" "Never." The kind of things, perhaps, that might have happened in books written by authors who still remembered magic."-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter
"Biddy knew the trees as soon as Hutchincroft led her to them: three of them in a triangle, each slender and white-limbed, leaves turning golden brown and bristling with red berries. Rowan trees."-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter
"At this time of year, the path was like a dark green cathedral, dappled with sun, and Biddy told the other two about the words the Japanese had for different kinds of light: Light through leaves was …"-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter
"She was breaking apart. Her heart was unfurling like a flower awakening to sunlight, her ribs expanding, her head splitting open like that of Zeus when Athena sprang full-formed. She couldn't scream …"-H.G. Parry, The Magician’s Daughter
15. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- memoir
- spirituality
"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
16. The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
By: Tori Bovalino
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath… read more
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"It seemed to me that a soul that preferred a cold grave to the white light of Heaven was suspect."-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
"She could weave between peace and poison fluid as a silver fish, and both of them were true. There wasn't a fake bone in her body, but that almost made it worse."-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
"me standing there- just standing there- looking around and thinking, God, I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be somewhere else, this is wrong, this is *wrong*."-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
"I don't like the way he say you. Like I different. Like I didn't just see one-of-me-like-me beat until she fall. [...] But my boy doesn't see. He can't see. Can't hear, either. He never tried to mimi…"-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
17. The Black Kids
By: Christina Hammonds Reed
4.03
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Ashley Bennett and her friends are living the charmed life. It’s the end of senior year and they’re… read more
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"Nobody calls boys sluts."-Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids
"It's not just about Rodney. It's about all of us."-Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids
"They don't fucking see us even when they're looking right at us."-Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids
"Sometimes when you want to disappear, it's easiest to hide in music."-Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids
18. Translating Myself and Others
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary transla… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- writing
- books about books
"To translate is to look into a mirror and see someone other than oneself."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"To translate is to alter one’s linguistic coordinates, to grab on to what has slipped away, to cope with exile."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"Translation will open up entire realms of possibilities, unforeseen pathways that will newly guide and inspire the writer’s work, and possibly even transform it. For to translate is to look into a mi…"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose ex…"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
19. Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World
By: Kathryn Aalto
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women, both historical and current, whose influential … read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
20. The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process
By: Francesca Lia Block
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For devotees of Bird by Bird and The Artist's Way , a memoir-driven guide to healing through the cr… read more
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- art
- personal development
- memoir
- psychology
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- writing
- crafts
- books about books
- self help
"I can arrange words on a page but I can't seem to organize books on a shelf. Over the years, My Secret has shelved thousands and thousands, held each one in his hands. He thinks they might have seepe…"-Francesca Lia Block, The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process
