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Jordan talked me into it - a familiar story :) Just ordered from The Book Depository..._______________________________________If you hang out on Goodreads, I imagine you enjoy reading essays. (Like, if you don't, what exactly are doing here?) This book is a collection of 17 outstanding essays, nearly all of which, I'm ashamed to say, I hadn't previously read. It was irresistible to pretend I was reading them here on GR, and then try to imagine how I would have reacted to them. In many cases, no
This was one of the first short anthologies I've read where I enjoyed every single piece included. Definitely read it if you want a diverse set of reading set in a short book easy to travel with!
I like when things unexpected align. On a recent writing retreat to Santa Fe we were provided for discussion a four essays. One by Joan Didion. Also as part of the workshop, we were taken on a day trip to Georgia O'Keefe's Ghost Ranch. I became quite interested again in creative non-fiction and essay writing. I requested "The Eloquent Essay" from the library and it fell right open to a Joan Didion essay on Georgia O'Keefe. (The Amy Tan essay, Mother Tongue, is also very good and, interestingly,
It took me forever to read this. I think I may have averaged less than one essay per week. I did enjoy it though. My favorites:Eudora Welty - Writing and Analyzing a StoryMartin Luther King Jr. - Letter from a Birmingham JailJoan Didion - Georgia O'KeefeLeo Marx - Huck at 100Amy Tan - Mother TongueBarbara Kingsolver - How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My LifeWell worth a read.
A real mix. I wouldn't have selected all of these, but enjoyed many, especially Auden's piece on detective stories, King's Birmingham jail letter, and Asia's essay on recognizing herself as a writer.
wonderful essays. My favorite was an essay by Bruno Bettelheim called the Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank. At the time I read it I thought it was perfect lesson that I need to learn in order to hold onto my job. The lesson was to learn from and react to changing conditions. I guess I did not learn the lesson; me and Mr. Frank, alas!
So for my English class I was assigned a few essays from this collection …. And I decided to put a post it on the ones I DIDNT get assigned (which was most of them) and over the last two days I would just pick a random postit and read that chapter. A few of them were lame (although most were very entertaining) , but I really enjoyed reading a short essay because it’s just a 5-10 minute commitment. Reading this while taking English is inspiring me to be a better writer and to try out some of the
