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    <body><![CDATA[my favorite paragraph, from near the end of the book, describing an event during one of a number of unexplained, unplanned remote stops by a passenger train:<br/>&quot;Once, when my train came to one of those inexplicable stops in open country, this happened: Out there was spread around us a long, h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67357742">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to read this book because I am looking for inspiration as a writer. This book is actual a short lecture series (104 pgs) she gave in 1983 at the William E Massey Sr Lectures in the History of American Civilization. She focuses on 3 main areas, Listening, Learning to See and Finding a Voice....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30496386">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a thin collection of three essays, Eudora Welty's loose memoir, presented as lectures to writing students at Harvard University in 1983. In it we get a glimpse behind the storyteller and into the author herself. She writes a good deal about her parents and it is the insight she gains fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74490009">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was originated from lectures Ms Welty delivered at Harvard in 1983.  Her reflections entitled, &quot;listening&quot;, &quot;learning to see and &quot;finding a voice&quot; resonated with my core in inspiration as did the totality of her Mississippi life observances. I will never forget the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46570309">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Since acquiring this several years ago, I've had lofty expectations about what it would be.  In the end, it's just a bunch of childhood memories, some more interesting and better described than others, with nothing much tying them all together.  There's not much in the way of good writing advice or ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43496515">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh glorious Eudora! A Southern treasure! Be sure to read about the set of Charles Dickens that her mother scrimped and saved to buy. And how, when the house caught on fire, heck with saving the children, Mama ran upstairs through the smoke and flames to save the books by throwing them out the window...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43358040">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Like Flannery O'Connor and most southern women writers, Eudora Welty is amazing...I loved reading this book my freshman year in college, I think it was, and I'm eager to read it again soon.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A lovely memoir of first memories, collections of thought to form into ideas, formation of images into prose and finding one's own voice. It was so enjoyable to read, inspiring.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Eudora Welty is a wonderful writer, of course.  In this book she tells of her childhood in Mississippi and how that influenced her writing.  It's charming and enlightening.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully written autobiography, about the author's childhood in Mississippi and the gentle life and family ties that formed her imagination.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not keen on biographies of any sort but this work is beautiful. Welty reviews her life through childhood selections that define her background: the South. This is the first work of any length by her that I have read and I now regret having waited so long to find her, having grown up surrounded ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38074887">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've come to appreciate this book more over the years.  I'm not sure it's required reading for writers but it is of interest.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a huge Eudora Welty fan, and this book moved me when I read it years ago and when I read it again not long ago.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I confess, I have not read any of Ms. Welty's stories. The only reason I'd even heard of this book was because some famous author listed it as required reading for all aspiring writers. Having read it, I'm not entirely sure why. Sure, it's a lovely painting of life in early 20th century Mississippi,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25328259">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An important book for all aspiring writers as well as for readers of short stories.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[first read this book in 5th grade while I was still a student at Davis Elementary School (Jefferson Davis Elementary to Eudora). I grew up with Eudora Welty ever-present in my life, seeing her at the jitney, riding by her house, attending the same school, her childhood street was mine... but taking ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5895348">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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