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Michael Gates Gill
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About this author
Hearing of the death of the writer Robert Parker I was so grateful that he had lived. His short, witty and enjoyable mysteries have been a yearly delight. His character is a private eye from Boston who manages to avenge wrongs without taking himself too seriously. The food in the stories is always excellent, and the dialogue is full of canny truths.
I also was reminded by the death of J.D. Salin... read more »
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How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
— published 2007 — 25 editions |
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How to Save Your Own Life: 15 Lessons on Finding Hope in Unexpected Places
— published 2009 — 10 editions |
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Starbucks Changed My Life
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Fired Up!: The Proven Principles of Successful Entrepreneurs
by Michael Gates Gill (Goodreads Author), Sheila Paterson — published 1996 — 2 editions |
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Michael Gates Gill 16-C Mix Fl Dis
— published 2010 |
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In search of Drinkers and Writers in Ireland (Biographies & Memoirs)
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A story of my "early retirement" after Yale and going to Ireland in search of a drunken hero of a book I had read and other literary boozers.
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The best book yet on diet. The author says all advice can be summed up in 7 words: "Eat food. From Plants. Not too much." |
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author)
read in December, 1997
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The single best book on how to write a book. |
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A suprisingly profound tale of a group of "modern" folk who find an ancient monastary in which the monks have discovered the secret to eternal life: little food, little talk, sensitiivity to every moment. |
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A wonderfully disciplined story about the powerful passions running so strongly beneath the polite surface of parish life in England. |
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Churcill's memoir about his early life and his finding his major loves--books and battles--in his twenties read by me in my twenties. Churchill was a good writer show showed that words properly used could change the world. |
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When I was young it was a strongly held belief that all great writers were drunks. I had been raised" …more |
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Michael Gill
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Talk at Pingry School
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December 03, 2009 09:03AM
location: NJ, The United States description: A talk to students about the importance of following their own hearts rather than striving to keep up with the materialistic culture of our time. |
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“Isn't it amazing in life how one minute you are devastated by some news, but then, a few seconds later, your desperate need to survive at any price kicks in and you can find some way to turn it around in your head?”
― Michael Gates Gill, How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
― Michael Gates Gill, How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
“I loved learning about the history of things”
― Michael Gates Gill, How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
― Michael Gates Gill, How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
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