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🌿 Writing From Life

Guides and memoirs exploring how personal experience becomes raw material for art — the alchemy of turning what you've lived into what you write.
Not Quite What I Was Planning
by Larry Smith • 2008
Six words: thousands wrote their life story in six words. The results are hilarious and devastating.
3.89
3k+
📝 Flash Memoir✍️ Writing Prompts🔗 Creative Constraints
Not Quite What I Was Planning Summary
Not Quite What I Was Planning 91%
Six words: thousands wrote their life story in six words. The results are hilarious and devastating.
by Larry Smith 2008
3.89
3k+ ratings
📝 Flash Memoir✍️ Writing Prompts🔗 Creative Constraints
Consider This
by Chuck Palahniuk • 2020
Most writing advice avoids the craft that actually builds authority, tension, and voice.
4.37
6k+
🖋️ Writing Craft📖 Craft Memoir✂️ Literary Minimalism
Consider This Summary
Consider This 91%
Most writing advice avoids the craft that actually builds authority, tension, and voice.
by Chuck Palahniuk 2020
4.37
6k+ ratings
🖋️ Writing Craft📖 Craft Memoir✂️ Literary Minimalism
Q's Legacy
by Helene Hanff • 1985
A professor's lectures led to a London bookshop, twenty years of letters, and accidental fame.
4.05
2k+
🖋️ Literary Memoir📚 Book Collecting🎓 Self-Education
Q's Legacy Summary
Q's Legacy 90%
A professor's lectures led to a London bookshop, twenty years of letters, and accidental fame.
by Helene Hanff 1985
4.05
2k+ ratings
🖋️ Literary Memoir📚 Book Collecting🎓 Self-Education
The Book of (More) Delights
by Ross Gay • 2023
A year of looking closely: when joy and sorrow share the same sentence.
4.25
3k+
📝 Lyric Essays👀 Practice Of Noticing🙏 Everyday Devotion
The Book of (More) Delights Summary
The Book of (More) Delights 90%
A year of looking closely: when joy and sorrow share the same sentence.
by Ross Gay 2023
4.25
3k+ ratings
📝 Lyric Essays👀 Practice Of Noticing🙏 Everyday Devotion
Bird by Bird
by Anne Lamott • 1994
How to trap the stories inside you, one small, terrible draft at a time.
4.24
112k+
✍️ Writing Craft📖 Author Memoir🧱 Writer'S Block
Bird by Bird Summary
Bird by Bird 90%
How to trap the stories inside you, one small, terrible draft at a time.
by Anne Lamott 1994
4.24
112k+ ratings
✍️ Writing Craft📖 Author Memoir🧱 Writer'S Block
Writing the Memoir
by Judith Barrington • 1996
The memoirist's craft: picking your thread, finding your voice, and shaping the truth into story.
4.04
715
🖋️ Memoir Writing📝 Creative Nonfiction🏗️ Narrative Structure
Writing the Memoir Summary
Writing the Memoir 90%
The memoirist's craft: picking your thread, finding your voice, and shaping the truth into story.
by Judith Barrington 1996
4.04
715 ratings
🖋️ Memoir Writing📝 Creative Nonfiction🏗️ Narrative Structure
Novelist as a Vocation
by Haruki Murakami • 2015
Originality is subtraction: how writing badly in English gave a Japanese novelist his voice.
3.89
19k+
✍️ Writing Craft📚 Literary Life🎨 Creative Process
Novelist as a Vocation Summary
Novelist as a Vocation 90%
Originality is subtraction: how writing badly in English gave a Japanese novelist his voice.
by Haruki Murakami 2015
3.89
19k+ ratings
✍️ Writing Craft📚 Literary Life🎨 Creative Process
Writing Creativity and Soul
by Sue Monk Kidd • 2025
Strong writing comes from the unconscious first, then craft, then persistence. In that order.
4.29
2k+
✍️ Writing Craft📝 The Writing Life🎤 Finding Your Voice
Writing Creativity and Soul Summary
Writing Creativity and Soul 90%
Strong writing comes from the unconscious first, then craft, then persistence. In that order.
by Sue Monk Kidd 2025
4.29
2k+ ratings
✍️ Writing Craft📝 The Writing Life🎤 Finding Your Voice
Seldom Disappointed
by Tony Hillerman • 2001
Wounded infantryman, journalist, 45-year-old professor: the unlikely path to the Navajo mysteries.
4.01
794
✍️ Writer'S Memoir📝 Craft Of Writing🏹 Native American Culture
Seldom Disappointed Summary
Seldom Disappointed 90%
Wounded infantryman, journalist, 45-year-old professor: the unlikely path to the Navajo mysteries.
by Tony Hillerman 2001
4.01
794 ratings
✍️ Writer'S Memoir📝 Craft Of Writing🏹 Native American Culture
The Princess Diarist
by Carrie Fisher • 2016
She was nineteen, he was a married star. The diaries Carrie Fisher kept on the Star Wars set.
3.70
92k+
🎬 Hollywood Memoir😂 Comic Memoir🌟 Fame And Identity
The Princess Diarist Summary
The Princess Diarist 90%
She was nineteen, he was a married star. The diaries Carrie Fisher kept on the Star Wars set.
by Carrie Fisher 2016
3.70
92k+ ratings
🎬 Hollywood Memoir😂 Comic Memoir🌟 Fame And Identity
Good Prose
by Tracy Kidder • 2013
Everything a Pulitzer winner and his editor know about writing nonfiction that people finish.
3.92
1k+
📖 Narrative Nonfiction✍️ Writing Craft🖋️ Prose Style
Good Prose Summary
Good Prose 90%
Everything a Pulitzer winner and his editor know about writing nonfiction that people finish.
by Tracy Kidder 2013
3.92
1k+ ratings
📖 Narrative Nonfiction✍️ Writing Craft🖋️ Prose Style
If You Want to Write
by Brenda Ueland • 2012
Writing is not a gift for the few. It is a birthright you talked yourself out of.
4.12
9k+
🖊️ Writing Practice🧱 Creative Blocks✍️ Freewriting
If You Want to Write Summary
If You Want to Write 90%
Writing is not a gift for the few. It is a birthright you talked yourself out of.
by Brenda Ueland 2012
4.12
9k+ ratings
🖊️ Writing Practice🧱 Creative Blocks✍️ Freewriting
My Broken Language
by Quiara Alegría Hudes • 2021
A professor said her Spanish was broken. Write it that way. A playwright found her voice.
4.18
4k+
🧒 Coming Of Age Memoir🌍 Multicultural Memoir🔀 Code Switching
My Broken Language Summary
My Broken Language 90%
A professor said her Spanish was broken. Write it that way. A playwright found her voice.
by Quiara Alegría Hudes 2021
4.18
4k+ ratings
🧒 Coming Of Age Memoir🌍 Multicultural Memoir🔀 Code Switching
The Facts
by Philip Roth • 1988
A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.
3.70
1k+
🖋️ Literary Memoir✍️ Writers On Writing✡️ Jewish Identity
The Facts Summary
The Facts 90%
A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.
by Philip Roth 1988
3.70
1k+ ratings
🖋️ Literary Memoir✍️ Writers On Writing✡️ Jewish Identity
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
by Alexander Chee • 2018
A novelist's confession: memoir cannot hold the truth of what happened to him. Only fiction can.
4.38
13k+
✍️ Writing Craft📖 Autofiction🏳️‍🌈 Queer Experience
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Summary
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel 89%
A novelist's confession: memoir cannot hold the truth of what happened to him. Only fiction can.
by Alexander Chee 2018
4.38
13k+ ratings
✍️ Writing Craft📖 Autofiction🏳️‍🌈 Queer Experience
Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer
by J. Michael Straczynski • 2021
Writer's block is a myth. Revise like a surgeon, diversify across media, and outlast the industry.
4.44
439
🖋️ Writing Craft🎨 Creative Process✂️ Manuscript Revision
Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer Summary
Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer 89%
Writer's block is a myth. Revise like a surgeon, diversify across media, and outlast the industry.
by J. Michael Straczynski 2021
4.44
439 ratings
🖋️ Writing Craft🎨 Creative Process✂️ Manuscript Revision
Body Work
by Melissa Febos • 2022
Personal writing threatens power. The stigma that silences women and queer writers is by design.
4.22
6k+
🖋️ Memoir Writing🩹 Writing Therapy✍️ Feminist Criticism
Body Work Summary
Body Work 89%
Personal writing threatens power. The stigma that silences women and queer writers is by design.
by Melissa Febos 2022
4.22
6k+ ratings
🖋️ Memoir Writing🩹 Writing Therapy✍️ Feminist Criticism
A Writer's Notebook
by Ralph Fletcher • 1996
A notebook habit turns raw noticing into finished writing. Everything starts with what you catch.
4.06
1k+
📝 Writing Craft📅 Daily Writing Habits💡 Idea Generation
A Writer's Notebook Summary
A Writer's Notebook 89%
A notebook habit turns raw noticing into finished writing. Everything starts with what you catch.
by Ralph Fletcher 1996
4.06
1k+ ratings
📝 Writing Craft📅 Daily Writing Habits💡 Idea Generation
The Little Locksmith
by Katharine Butler Hathaway • 1943
A bedridden girl, a visibly different woman: she bought a Maine house and rebuilt herself.
3.67
1k+
🩻 Disability Memoir✍️ Writing Life🦴 Embodied Difference
The Little Locksmith Summary
The Little Locksmith 89%
A bedridden girl, a visibly different woman: she bought a Maine house and rebuilt herself.
by Katharine Butler Hathaway 1943
3.67
1k+ ratings
🩻 Disability Memoir✍️ Writing Life🦴 Embodied Difference
Several Short Sentences About Writing
by Verlyn Klinkenborg • 2012
Writing isn't about flow or formulas; it's about one clear sentence, then another.
4.13
4k+
✍️ Writing Advice🔤 Sentence Craft📖 Reading Like A Writer
Several Short Sentences About Writing Summary
Several Short Sentences About Writing 89%
Writing isn't about flow or formulas; it's about one clear sentence, then another.
by Verlyn Klinkenborg 2012
4.13
4k+ ratings
✍️ Writing Advice🔤 Sentence Craft📖 Reading Like A Writer
Writing Down the Bones
by Natalie Goldberg • 1986
Outrun your inner editor: the Zen practice of raw, unedited writing that unlocks your truest voice.
4.21
32k+
✍️ Writing Craft📅 Daily Practice🧱 Creative Resistance
Writing Down the Bones Summary
Writing Down the Bones 89%
Outrun your inner editor: the Zen practice of raw, unedited writing that unlocks your truest voice.
by Natalie Goldberg 1986
4.21
32k+ ratings
✍️ Writing Craft📅 Daily Practice🧱 Creative Resistance
On Writing
by Ernest Hemingway • 1984
Write true, cut hard, and the reader will feel what you never said.
4.02
5k+
✍️ Writing Craft📖 Literary Memoir🎭 Truth In Fiction
On Writing Summary
On Writing 89%
Write true, cut hard, and the reader will feel what you never said.
by Ernest Hemingway 1984
4.02
5k+ ratings
✍️ Writing Craft📖 Literary Memoir🎭 Truth In Fiction
Springfield Confidential
by Mike Reiss • 2018
The one rule that made The Simpsons great: network executives were banned from the building.
3.91
5k+
📺 Tv Writing🎭 Comedy Writing🎬 Animation Industry
Springfield Confidential Summary
Springfield Confidential 89%
The one rule that made The Simpsons great: network executives were banned from the building.
by Mike Reiss 2018
3.91
5k+ ratings
📺 Tv Writing🎭 Comedy Writing🎬 Animation Industry
Writing Begins with the Breath
by Laraine Herring • 2007
The deepest writing starts with breath and body, not technique.
4.09
376
🧘 Mindful Writing✍️ The Writing Life🫁 Body Awareness
Writing Begins with the Breath Summary
Writing Begins with the Breath 89%
The deepest writing starts with breath and body, not technique.
by Laraine Herring 2007
4.09
376 ratings
🧘 Mindful Writing✍️ The Writing Life🫁 Body Awareness
You Are a Writer
by Jeff Goins • 2012
Before craft comes identity: a playbook for platform, audience, and the persistence to get read.
3.80
4k+
🪪 Writer Identity🏗️ Platform Building🏷️ Personal Branding
You Are a Writer Summary
You Are a Writer 89%
Before craft comes identity: a playbook for platform, audience, and the persistence to get read.
by Jeff Goins 2012
3.80
4k+ ratings
🪪 Writer Identity🏗️ Platform Building🏷️ Personal Branding
An Autobiography
by Agatha Christie • 1977
She learned exactly how poisons kill, long before she started killing people in books.
4.13
13k+
🖋️ Literary Memoir🏡 English Childhood🔍 Golden Age Detective Fiction
An Autobiography Summary
An Autobiography 89%
She learned exactly how poisons kill, long before she started killing people in books.
by Agatha Christie 1977
4.13
13k+ ratings
🖋️ Literary Memoir🏡 English Childhood🔍 Golden Age Detective Fiction
Real Estate
by Deborah Levy • 2021
She wanted a room of her own. At sixty, she realized she needed the whole house.
4.28
11k+
🧠 Feminist Memoir🖋️ Writer'S Memoir🏠 Home And Identity
Real Estate Summary
Real Estate 89%
She wanted a room of her own. At sixty, she realized she needed the whole house.
by Deborah Levy 2021
4.28
11k+ ratings
🧠 Feminist Memoir🖋️ Writer'S Memoir🏠 Home And Identity
On Writing Well
by William Zinsser • 1976
Your personality is the only writing tool: how to strip away everything that buries it.
4.23
31k+
✍️ Nonfiction Writing🛠️ Writing Craft✂️ Rewriting And Editing
On Writing Well Summary
On Writing Well 89%
Your personality is the only writing tool: how to strip away everything that buries it.
by William Zinsser 1976
4.23
31k+ ratings
✍️ Nonfiction Writing🛠️ Writing Craft✂️ Rewriting And Editing
Draft No. 4
by John McPhee • 2013
How a New Yorker writer earns every sentence: drafts, checking, silence, and a dictionary.
4.09
4k+
📝 Narrative Nonfiction✍️ The Revision Process🏗️ Narrative Structure
Draft No. 4 Summary
Draft No. 4 89%
How a New Yorker writer earns every sentence: drafts, checking, silence, and a dictionary.
by John McPhee 2013
4.09
4k+ ratings
📝 Narrative Nonfiction✍️ The Revision Process🏗️ Narrative Structure
The Faraway Nearby
by Rebecca Solnit • 2013
The frontier between a life and the story told about it is where everything important happens.
4.20
8k+
📖 Literary Memoir✍️ Personal Essays🕸️ Interconnectedness
The Faraway Nearby Summary
The Faraway Nearby 89%
The frontier between a life and the story told about it is where everything important happens.
by Rebecca Solnit 2013
4.20
8k+ ratings
📖 Literary Memoir✍️ Personal Essays🕸️ Interconnectedness
The Great Book of Journaling
by Eric Maisel • 2022
Nine ways a blank page becomes therapy, art studio, and compass: writing that heals and creates.
3.74
114
📝 Therapeutic Writing✍️ Expressive Writing🎨 Creative Self-Expression
The Great Book of Journaling Summary
The Great Book of Journaling 89%
Nine ways a blank page becomes therapy, art studio, and compass: writing that heals and creates.
by Eric Maisel 2022
3.74
114 ratings
📝 Therapeutic Writing✍️ Expressive Writing🎨 Creative Self-Expression
The Situation and the Story
by Vivian Gornick • 2001
Memoir is not the events. It is the honest self-interrogation that makes them finally matter.
3.93
3k+
🧾 Literary Memoir📝 Personal Essay🛠️ Memoir Craft
The Situation and the Story Summary
The Situation and the Story 89%
Memoir is not the events. It is the honest self-interrogation that makes them finally matter.
by Vivian Gornick 2001
3.93
3k+ ratings
🧾 Literary Memoir📝 Personal Essay🛠️ Memoir Craft
The Book of Alchemy
by Suleika Jaouad • 2025
Born in a cancer ward: a journaling practice that turns pain into creative fuel.
4.27
5k+
📓 Journaling Practice🎨 Creative Recovery🏥 Illness And Creativity
The Book of Alchemy Summary
The Book of Alchemy 89%
Born in a cancer ward: a journaling practice that turns pain into creative fuel.
by Suleika Jaouad 2025
4.27
5k+ ratings
📓 Journaling Practice🎨 Creative Recovery🏥 Illness And Creativity
Talking as Fast as I Can
by Lauren Graham • 2016
A grade skipped, a backside bared, and the long road from Chili's to Stars Hollow.
3.94
167k+
🎬 Hollywood Memoir🎭 Acting Life✍️ Writing Process
Talking as Fast as I Can Summary
Talking as Fast as I Can 89%
A grade skipped, a backside bared, and the long road from Chili's to Stars Hollow.
by Lauren Graham 2016
3.94
167k+ ratings
🎬 Hollywood Memoir🎭 Acting Life✍️ Writing Process
Writing to Learn
by William Zinsser • 1988
Writing's real job is not transmission; it is discovery. How to think on paper.
3.81
2k+
📚 Writing Across The Curriculum🌉 Bridging Disciplines🧠 Writing As Thinking
Writing to Learn Summary
Writing to Learn 89%
Writing's real job is not transmission; it is discovery. How to think on paper.
by William Zinsser 1988
3.81
2k+ ratings
📚 Writing Across The Curriculum🌉 Bridging Disciplines🧠 Writing As Thinking
Zen in the Art of Writing
by Ray Bradbury • 1973
Write from obsession, trust the subconscious, and kill the inner critic before it speaks.
4.08
22k+
✍️ Writing Craft📝 Writing Life🎨 Creative Practice
Zen in the Art of Writing Summary
Zen in the Art of Writing 89%
Write from obsession, trust the subconscious, and kill the inner critic before it speaks.
by Ray Bradbury 1973
4.08
22k+ ratings
✍️ Writing Craft📝 Writing Life🎨 Creative Practice
A Circle of Quiet
by Madeleine L'Engle • 1971
A farmhouse, a brook, an hour of silence: what a writer found when she finally stopped.
4.21
7k+
🖊️ Writing Life🙏 Contemplative Faith🎨 Creative Process
A Circle of Quiet Summary
A Circle of Quiet 89%
A farmhouse, a brook, an hour of silence: what a writer found when she finally stopped.
by Madeleine L'Engle 1971
4.21
7k+ ratings
🖊️ Writing Life🙏 Contemplative Faith🎨 Creative Process
Life Beyond Measure
by Sidney Poitier • 2008
Sidney Poitier's letters to a great-granddaughter: the fear, faith, and fury that shaped a life.
3.83
741
🧓 Elder Wisdom💌 Letters To The Young🧘 Inner Stillness
Life Beyond Measure Summary
Life Beyond Measure 89%
Sidney Poitier's letters to a great-granddaughter: the fear, faith, and fury that shaped a life.
by Sidney Poitier 2008
3.83
741 ratings
🧓 Elder Wisdom💌 Letters To The Young🧘 Inner Stillness
The Road Beneath My Feet
by Frank Turner • 2015
Band broke up. He went acoustic, slept on floors, and one tiny show at a time, headlined Wembley.
4.21
2k+
🎸 Music Memoir🚐 Diy Touring🎤 Touring Life
The Road Beneath My Feet Summary
The Road Beneath My Feet 89%
Band broke up. He went acoustic, slept on floors, and one tiny show at a time, headlined Wembley.
by Frank Turner 2015
4.21
2k+ ratings
🎸 Music Memoir🚐 Diy Touring🎤 Touring Life
Storyworthy
by Matthew Dicks • 2018
Find the hidden moments in your life and a structure to turn them into unforgettable stories.
4.26
8k+
🎤 Personal Storytelling🗣️ Oral Storytelling✍️ Memoir Writing
Storyworthy Summary
Storyworthy 89%
Find the hidden moments in your life and a structure to turn them into unforgettable stories.
by Matthew Dicks 2018
4.26
8k+ ratings
🎤 Personal Storytelling🗣️ Oral Storytelling✍️ Memoir Writing
A Writer's Diary
by Virginia Woolf • 1953
Virginia Woolf's diary: 23 years of teaching herself to write the novels that changed fiction.
4.17
7k+
📝 Writers On Writing🎨 Creative Practice📚 Modernist Literature
A Writer's Diary Summary
A Writer's Diary 89%
Virginia Woolf's diary: 23 years of teaching herself to write the novels that changed fiction.
by Virginia Woolf 1953
4.17
7k+ ratings
📝 Writers On Writing🎨 Creative Practice📚 Modernist Literature
Palm Sunday
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 1981
Dresden, a mother's suicide, a son's madness: the pieces Vonnegut assembled into a self-portrait.
3.78
7k+
🖋️ Literary Memoir📚 Essay Collections✍️ Writers On Writing
Palm Sunday Summary
Palm Sunday 89%
Dresden, a mother's suicide, a son's madness: the pieces Vonnegut assembled into a self-portrait.
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1981
3.78
7k+ ratings
🖋️ Literary Memoir📚 Essay Collections✍️ Writers On Writing
Daily Rituals
by Mason Currey • 2013
161 legendary artists didn't wait for inspiration. The real secret was far more boring.
3.65
21k+
🔄 Creative Routines📋 Work Habits⏰ Time Management
Daily Rituals Summary
Daily Rituals 89%
161 legendary artists didn't wait for inspiration. The real secret was far more boring.
by Mason Currey 2013
3.65
21k+ ratings
🔄 Creative Routines📋 Work Habits⏰ Time Management
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
by Lee Gutkind • 2012
True stories with a novelist's power: the craft, the ethics, and where you must never invent.
3.98
1k+
📝 Creative Nonfiction✍️ Narrative Craft🎬 Scene Building
You Can't Make This Stuff Up Summary
You Can't Make This Stuff Up 89%
True stories with a novelist's power: the craft, the ethics, and where you must never invent.
by Lee Gutkind 2012
3.98
1k+ ratings
📝 Creative Nonfiction✍️ Narrative Craft🎬 Scene Building
Storyteller
by Kate Wilhelm • 2005
Twenty-seven years of Clarion distilled: character drives story, and every word must earn its place.
3.93
350
🛠️ Fiction Craft✍️ Writing Workshops🚀 Speculative Fiction
Storyteller Summary
Storyteller 89%
Twenty-seven years of Clarion distilled: character drives story, and every word must earn its place.
by Kate Wilhelm 2005
3.93
350 ratings
🛠️ Fiction Craft✍️ Writing Workshops🚀 Speculative Fiction
5,000 Words Per Hour
by Chris Fox • 2015
The average writer produces 500 words an hour. Here's how to hit ten times that.
4.19
3k+
🚀 Writing Productivity✍️ Writing Process🕰️ Writing Routines
5,000 Words Per Hour Summary
5,000 Words Per Hour 89%
The average writer produces 500 words an hour. Here's how to hit ten times that.
by Chris Fox 2015
4.19
3k+ ratings
🚀 Writing Productivity✍️ Writing Process🕰️ Writing Routines
The Story You Need to Tell
by Sandra Marinella • 2017
The facts of your life are fixed. The story your brain tells about them is not.
4.40
238
🖊️ Expressive Writing🔄 Narrative Reframing💔 Trauma Recovery
The Story You Need to Tell Summary
The Story You Need to Tell 89%
The facts of your life are fixed. The story your brain tells about them is not.
by Sandra Marinella 2017
4.40
238 ratings
🖊️ Expressive Writing🔄 Narrative Reframing💔 Trauma Recovery
Writing Alone, Writing Together
by Judy Reeves • 2002
How to start a writing group that provides feedback, builds accountability, and keeps you writing.
4.01
78
👥 Writing Community✍️ Writing Workshops🖋️ Freewriting
Writing Alone, Writing Together Summary
Writing Alone, Writing Together 89%
How to start a writing group that provides feedback, builds accountability, and keeps you writing.
by Judy Reeves 2002
4.01
78 ratings
👥 Writing Community✍️ Writing Workshops🖋️ Freewriting
I'll Never Write My Memoirs
by Grace Jones • 2015
How a girl from a repressive Jamaican church became the mirror-faced androgynous icon of disco.
3.76
2k+
🎤 Music Memoirs👗 Fashion And Style🦋 Self Invention
I'll Never Write My Memoirs Summary
I'll Never Write My Memoirs 89%
How a girl from a repressive Jamaican church became the mirror-faced androgynous icon of disco.
by Grace Jones 2015
3.76
2k+ ratings
🎤 Music Memoirs👗 Fashion And Style🦋 Self Invention
Life Is a Verb
by Patti Digh • 2008
Death gave a stepfather 37 days. One morning question later, ordinary life had urgency again.
3.97
3k+
🧘 Mindful Living🎨 Creative Self-Help⏳ Mortality Awareness
Life Is a Verb Summary
Life Is a Verb 89%
Death gave a stepfather 37 days. One morning question later, ordinary life had urgency again.
by Patti Digh 2008
3.97
3k+ ratings
🧘 Mindful Living🎨 Creative Self-Help⏳ Mortality Awareness
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