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Subtitle: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book Recommended by: Found on the library shelf in the self-publishing section, and renewed several times. This is a quirky book with practical, detailed advice about self-publishing and designing books. I appreciate the information on choosing a page layout and some good typographical options. I’m less enthusiastic about [...] Subtitle: a memoir of friendship Recommended by: Courtney on the Feministing blog I loved this book. I cried at the beginning, smiled in the middle, and sighed at the end. Gail Caldwell describes first her grief at her best friend Caroline Knapp’s death, and then their daily joys together while she was alive. They trained their big [...] Subtitle: A Practical Approach Recommended by: reading Nisi Shawl’s other book “Filter House” I felt so warmed and included by Nisi Shawl’s writing in “Filter House” that I was eager to read “Writing the Other.” I wanted both to learn how to write inclusively, and to experience more of that included feeling. This short book includes three essays [...] Subtitle: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Anne Lamott’s writing process seems reassuringly similar to my own, and seems to include just as much struggle. She advises us to write everything that comes to mind, and then later refine it into clarity and grace. A lot of the book is devoted to all the ways [...] |
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