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Elizabeth J. Andrew

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Hello, fellow readers! I'm using Goodreads to track my reading--and to find like-minded book-lovers who want to share titles. Feel free to follow my reviews or become a virtual friend.

About me: As a writer, I'm primarily interested in giving language to language-less experience (a doomed enterprise, I know, but worthwhile nonetheless). While my writing thus far has been nonfiction--memoir, essay, and a book on writing--I've just completed a novel and I read across the spectrum.


Are You My Mother?Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


From the author of the comic strip, DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR, ARE YOU MY MOTHER is a refreshingly frank take on the deeply psychological work of writing a memoir. The majority of scenes in this book take place in a therapist's office--a prospect that usually makes me cringe. But Bechdel uses the story of her therapy not only to explore t... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 4.01 · 73 ratings · 14 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
Writing the Sacred Journey:...
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2005
Swinging on the Garden Gate...
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2000
On The Threshold: Home, Har...
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2005

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I enjoy Stafford's down-to-earth approach to writing: Let the language take you where it wills. If you're having trouble, lower your standards. If it occurs to you, it must be justified. "A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he...more
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Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
Are You My Mother?
by Alison Bechdel
read in June, 2013
From the author of the comic strip, DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR, ARE YOU MY MOTHER is a refreshingly frank take on the deeply psychological work of writing a memoir. The majority of scenes in this book take place in a therapist's office--a prospect that u...more
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When "Spiritual but Not Religious" Is Not Enough by Lillian Daniel
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
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"Thanks for that thoughtful response, Jamie. Despite really not enjoying myself, I did read the novel to the end in hopes of catching some glimpse of a...more "
A Month of Sundays by John Updike
A Month of Sundays
by John Updike
read in June, 2013
I despised this book. I had to give it two stars because Updike's prose is fast and fabulous, but the story was undisguised, misogynistic erotica for male clergy. The theology read like a egotistical freshman bullshitting. And there's no exploration...more
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“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.”
Elizabeth J. Andrew, On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness

“When you enter the woods of a fairy tale and it is night, the trees tower on either side of the path. They loom large because everything in the world of fairy tales is blown out of proportion. If the owl shouts, the otherwise deathly silence magnifies its call. The tasks you are given to do (by the witch, by the stepmother, by the wise old woman) are insurmountable - pull a single hair from the crescent moon bear's throat; separate a bowl's worth of poppy seeds from a pile of dirt. The forest seems endless. But when you do reach the daylight, triumphantly carrying the particular hair or having outwitted the wolf; when the owl is once again a shy bird and the trees only a lush canopy filtering the sun, the world is forever changed for your having seen it otherwise. From now on, when you come upon darkness, you'll know it has dimension. You'll know how closely poppy seeds and dirt resemble each other. The forest will be just another story that has absorbed you, taken you through its paces, and cast you out again to your home with its rattling windows and empty refrigerator - to your meager livelihood, which demands, inevitably, that you write about it.”
Elizabeth J. Andrew, On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness

“I'm not particularly in favor of doctrine or creed, ordination, the elevation of holy texts, the institution of church, or, for that matter, Christianity. Like most religions, it has irreconcilable shortcomings and an unforgivable history. What I do favor is the attempt to make sense of things by living within a story. The Christian story, for good or ill, is my inheritance.”
Elizabeth J. Andrew, On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness

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This group is for persons interested in the genre of the spiritual memoir. Think Augustine, Thomas Merton, Anne Lamott, and Kathleen Norris to name a...more
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This group is comprised of students enrolled in The Loft Literary Center's Foreword program. It's purpose is the sharing and discussion of books.
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Join bestselling and award winning author Margaret Atwood for a discussion group in celebration of the paperback release of her novel The Year of the...more



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