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Rona Maynard
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February 2022
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Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World
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My Mother's Daughter: A Memoir
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2007
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4 editions
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The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared
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| With a poet's eye for the indelible detail and a detective's commitment to justice for the dead, Ona Gritz goes on a years-long quest for the truth about her murdered sister and uncovers a dark fairy tale. Her memoir EVERYWHERE I LOOK broke my heart, ...more | |
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"This epistolary memoir is written as though one continuous letter to the author’s sister who, decades earlier, was the victim of a brutal murder. With the tenacity of a private detective and the heart of a poet, Ona Gritz unravels a litany of lies, e"
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| Beth Kaplan brings a sharp wit, a generous heart and a keen eye for character to her story of rekindling purpose and connection in the tumult of midlife. Like every woman over 40 or so, she has lost plenty: a marriage, both parents and friends gone t ...more | |
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Love in the Archives: a patchwork of true stories about suicide loss
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| I open every memoir with the same question: Who is this person called “I?” She doesn’t have to be the dearest friend I’ve never met. She has only to be real on the page, burningly alive with all her yearnings, regrets and contradictions. Real people ...more | |
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Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World:
"As a new rescue dog owner of a certain age (me, not the dog), I related strongly to the author's experiences as she got to know her dog, Casey, and explored the world with him, learning surprising things about herself as time unfolded. The book is fi"
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Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World:
""I'm also Casey's human."
As a dog lover reading the absolutely joyous memoir Starter Dog: My Path To Joy, Belonging And Loving This World by reflective author Rona Maynard was a delightful treat. Rona, in her 60s, newly retired, is looking for her nex" Read more of this review » |
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“A minute, fully lived, can feel like all the time in the world.”
― Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World
― Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World
“A dog more than the canine animal. A dog is everywhere you go together, every living creature you meet along the way, and the human you become with your canine.”
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“A dog is more than the canine animal. A dog is everywhere you go together, every living creature you meet along the way, and the human you become with your canine”
― Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World
― Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World
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“If I knew where the good songs were, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.”
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“Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say all kinds of things, but the other place is supposed to keep quiet. But maybe our lower colons have something interesting to say. Maybe we should listen to them. Farts are human, more human than a lot of people I know. I think we should bring them out of the water closet and into the parlor, and that’s what I did in Blazing Saddles.”
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“Young love is about wanting to be happy. Old love is about wanting someone else to be happy”
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