{"id":129,"date":"2008-09-28T23:31:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T03:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2008-09-28T23:31:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T03:31:01","slug":"three-great-reads-for-storytellers-and-storylovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/three-great-reads-for-storytellers-and-storylovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Great Reads for Storytellers (and Storylovers)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve been reading some books written by exquisite storytellers and thought\u00a0you might want to check them out for yourself (if you can stand all the pleasure).<\/p>\n

I was completely enchanted by Geri Larkin’s\u00a0Plant Seed, Pull Weed<\/strong><\/em>. Larkin, an ordained Buddhist and gardener, has created a lovely handbook of life lessons gathered from her spiritual practice and her work in a Seattle nursery. In fact, the subtitle is Nurturing the Garden of Your Life. Larkin notices the stories around her and passes them along. Lucky readers!<\/p>\n

I’m nearly finished with another stunner which has been gracing the bestseller list for some time–and it deserves to be read. If you haven’t discovered\u00a0The\u00a0Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, run, don’t walk, to your library or bookstore and grab it. The book is a series of letters and each one is a self-contained masterpiece of storytelling from post-World War II London.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago,\u00a0Ode<\/em>\u00a0magazine mentioned the six-word story exercise. The idea is to summarize your life in six words. I didn’t know at the time that the inspiration for that is a book called\u00a0Not Quite What\u00a0I Was Planning<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0which gathers six-word stories from the famous and the obscure. It’s such fun to read. Here are a few samples:<\/p>\n

Revenge is living well, without you. ~ Joyce Carol Oates<\/p>\n

Changing mind postponed demise by decades. ~ Scott O’Neil<\/p>\n

Followed rules, not dreams. Never again. ~ Margaret Hellerstein<\/p>\n

Secret of life: marry an Italian. ~ Nora Ephron<\/p>\n

Try it for yourself. It\u2019s harder than it may appear. Then go read something splendid this week!<\/p>\n

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You don\u2019t have to have a dramatic story. It\u2019s all in the telling. ~ Chuck Close<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 I’ve been reading some books written by exquisite storytellers and thought\u00a0you might want to check them out for yourself (if you can stand all the pleasure). I was completely enchanted by Geri Larkin’s\u00a0Plant Seed, Pull Weed. Larkin, an ordained Buddhist and gardener, has created a lovely handbook of life lessons gathered from her spiritual…<\/p>\n

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