Archive for 'Guest blogger'
The Help: A Bestselling Novel with a Memoir Message
The Help spent 379 days in the Amazon Top 100 list. It has 1,751 reviews on Amazon.com and rates 4.5 stars. It is a novel, but, as Lanie Tankard argues, it deserves consideration from a memoir perspective.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
New York: Amy Einhorn Books (Putnam), 2009.
Available in hardcover, paperback, audiobook, CD, and Kindle editions.
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Posted: March 10th, 2010 under Guest blogger, My Reviews.
Tags: Kathryn Stockett, Lanie Tankard, memoir, novel, The Help
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Laughter and Family in Memoir Writing: Guest Blogs and an Upcoming Giveaway
“What makes us laugh out loud?” is the question I am asking as I re-read Mennonite in a Little Black Dress. Next week I will try to answer that question for a guest post I plan to send to Matilda Butler at the great website Womensmemoirs.com. If you have not discovered this website, I recommend that you [...]
Posted: March 7th, 2010 under Books About Memoir, Guest blogger, Personal Reflections.
Tags: Blogroll, guest blogs, humor, laughter, Linda Joy Myers, Matilda Butler, National Association of Memoir Writers
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Touchstones: Keys to a Great Memoir
Guest blogger Lanie Tankard returns today to talk about memories of her childhood using “luminous particulars”-a phrase borrowed from Jane Kenyon and Ezra Pound via my former colleague at Goshen College Ann Hostetler. Lanie’s word for those wonderfully evocative objects is “touchstones.” If you enjoy this beautiful essay, you may want to read her first [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2009 under Guest blogger, Personal Reflections.
Tags: children's books, Lanie Tankard, mini-memoir, skate keys, touchstones
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