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A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas avg rating 3.64 — 1,246 ratings — published 2006 6 editions |
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Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life by Abigail Thomas avg rating 4.15 — 139 ratings — published 2000 2 editions |
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An ACTUAL LIFE by Abigail Thomas avg rating 3.61 — 51 ratings — published 1996 2 editions |
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Thinking About Memoir by Abigail Thomas avg rating 4.23 — 43 ratings — published 2008 |
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Getting Over Tom by Abigail Thomas avg rating 3.49 — 49 ratings — published 1994 2 editions |
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Herb's Pajamas by Abigail Thomas avg rating 3.56 — 32 ratings — published 1998 |
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Pearl Paints (An Owlet Book) by Abigail Thomas avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 1994 2 editions |
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Lily by Abigail Thomas avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1994 2 editions |
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Wake Up, Wilson Street by Abigail Thomas avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 1993 2 editions |
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Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2006 |
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"Call it a diary--it is less imposing than a journal, which sounds like an end in itself. I steer clear of the word journal--and its spawn, the verb to journal, as in, 'I have been journaling all my life.' If I were to call my notebook a journal I would probably write with the notion that it be published someday, preferably posthumously, and people would marvel. This would make me self-conscious. I would be trying to perfect each sentence before its time. I prefer notes; if I clean it up too fast I lose the spark. Everything goes in: grocery lists, things to do (so I can scratch them off) random observations, knitting patterns, recipes, overheard dialogue, everything. A diary isn't sacred. Think of it as the written equivalent to singing in the shower. I don't care what I'm writing and I don't pay attention to language.. A friend wanted to know what I was working on; she was reading the paper and I was writing in my diary. We were having coffee at Bread Alone.
'Nothing,' I said.
'It can't be nothing,' she said, assuming perhaps that writers were always doing something interesting. She leaned over and read, 'It is taking a long time to get my sandwich.'
Case closed."
— Abigail Thomas
'Nothing,' I said.
'It can't be nothing,' she said, assuming perhaps that writers were always doing something interesting. She leaned over and read, 'It is taking a long time to get my sandwich.'
Case closed."
— Abigail Thomas
"...but they were writers and writers suggest things just to see what happens next."
— Abigail Thomas
— Abigail Thomas
"The noises are real and no doubt have a logical explanation but at midnight logic is not my companion, so the solution is to keep my imagination in check."
— Abigail Thomas
— Abigail Thomas
