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Katherine Sartori |
This sets the pattern for much of what follows: Celia's desire to help others and serve God, contrasted with her love of romance, poetry, and, yes, longing for sex. When she meets a man who appreciates her sensitivity and beauty and confides in her, we sense that Celia's path is leading away from the convent into a new and empowering direction as the woman and writer she is destined to become. Inspired by Katherine Sartori's own life, The Chosen Shell is a lovely and honest story of a young girl's search for meaning.
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Madeline Sharples |
Memoirs of the Soul – A Writing Guide by Nan Merrick Phifer. Brimming with writing prompts that help develop a rough draft to polished memoir, this book leads writers into the heart of meaningful experiences. An associate director of the Oregon Writing Project at the University of Oregon, Phifer offers instructions and guideposts along the memoir writer's journey. Chapters devoted to breathing life into your writing, focusing on your subject, understanding the soul of the child, writing about adolescent angst, dreams and aspirations, make this book an essential component of any writer’s library.
Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World by Mary Pipher. In this memoir, Pipher provides an up close and personal look into how her sudden catapult into fame with the publication of Reviving Ophelia led to a near nervous breakdown and re-examination of her life. As a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, I interviewed Pipher during one of her grueling tours for Reviving Ophelia that she writes about in her memoir. Seeking Peace is brimming with the author’s personal truth and authentic voice. She offers portraits of her parents; her battle with anxiety and perfectionism; her earliest childhood memories around the time she felt abandoned by her mother. By Pipher's own admission, writing saved her life . . . and as the title suggests, meditation, yoga and the study of Buddhism paved a path toward serenity and peace.
Boyd Lemon |
Now I'll pass the baton to Madeline Sharples as our blog hop continues.
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