false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174487728m/406185.jpg 15171 17 If you look at an atlas of the United States, one published around, say , 1940, there is, in the state of Indiana, north of New Castle and east of the Epileptic Village, a small town called Mooreland. In 1940 the population of Mooreland was about three hundred people; in 1950 the population was three hundred, and in 1960, 1970, and 1980, and so on. The book that follows is about a child from Mooreland, Indiana, written by one of the three hundred. It's a memoir, and a sigh of gratitude, a way of returning. I no longer live there; I can't speak for the town or its people as they are now. Someone has taken my place. Whoever she is, her stories are her own (taken in part from the prologue). 17077 2001 A Girl Named Zippy total:6681|5:1910|4:2452|3:1700|2:494|1:125| 6681 25571 8880 1576 15171 0965030067 9780965030069 5944 1435 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166671570m/15171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15171.A_Girl_Named_Zippy 3 10 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 16:40:09 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 20:01:55 -0800 2008
Anyway, true or false: Are male memoirists seen as witty, pithy, and insightful while female memoirists are derided as self-involved or -indulgent? Food for thought, and not...more...]]> 15171 0965030067 9780965030069 5944 1435 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166671570m/15171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15171.A_Girl_Named_Zippy 4 3 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Dec 28 18:32:01 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 18:34:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 15171 0965030067 9780965030069 5944 1435 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166671570m/15171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15171.A_Girl_Named_Zippy 3 3 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 01 11:55:27 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 18 16:24:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> 406185 0767915054 9780767915052 536 87 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174487728m/406185.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406185.A_Girl_Named_Zippy_Growing_Up_Small_in_Mooreland_Indiana 5 3 false Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Thu Nov 08 19:13:13 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 09 14:13:52 -0800 2007 ...more...]]> 15171 0965030067 9780965030069 5944 1435 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166671570m/15171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15171.A_Girl_Named_Zippy 2 2 false Sun May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 14:53:24 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 13:36:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 15171 0965030067 9780965030069 5944 1435 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166671570m/15171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15171.A_Girl_Named_Zippy 5 2 false Fri Jun 13 17:42:23 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 19 08:12:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 15171 0965030067 9780965030069 5944 1435 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166671570m/15171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15171.A_Girl_Named_Zippy 2 2 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 16 19:38:19 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 18 15:10:16 -0800 2007 more...]]> 15171 0965030067 9780965030069 5944 1435 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166671570m/15171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15171.A_Girl_Named_Zippy 4 1 false Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 21:26:17 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 07:26:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 15171 0965030067 9780965030069 5944 1435 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166671570m/15171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15171.A_Girl_Named_Zippy 5 2 false Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 20 19:08:04 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 06 11:27:40 -0800 2008 15171 0965030067 9780965030069 5944 1435 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166671570m/15171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15171.A_Girl_Named_Zippy 5 2 false Wed Jun 04 15:01:26 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 17:49:28 -0700 2008
From the book...

"The distance between Mooreland in 1965 and a city like San Francisco in 1965 is roughly equivalent to the distance starlight must travel before we look up casually from a cornfield and...more...]]> 406185 0767915054 9780767915052 536 87 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174487728m/406185.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406185.A_Girl_Named_Zippy_Growing_Up_Small_in_Mooreland_Indiana 5 1 false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 12 06:40:45 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 06:57:39 -0700 2008
A Girl Called Zippy is a childhood memoir of Haven, aka Zippy. She tells stories from her babyhood till about 10-12 years old. She lived in a small town in Indiana with about 300 people. Unlike other biographies, it ...more...]]> 406185 0767915054 9780767915052 536 87 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174487728m/406185.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406185.A_Girl_Named_Zippy_Growing_Up_Small_in_Mooreland_Indiana 4 1 false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed Sep 05 07:40:56 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 12:34:20 -0700 2007 A Girl Named Zippy in just a few hours over the past couple of days.

A memoir along the lines of Jean Shepherd (of A Christmas Story fame), Kimmel recalls vignettes from her rather bizarre childhood in the tiny town of Mooreland, Indiana. She was "...more...]]> 15171 0965030067 9780965030069 5944 1435 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166671570m/15171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15171.A_Girl_Named_Zippy 3 1 false Wed Jun 27 12:05:12 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 14:03:30 -0700 2007
Otherwise, I found it interesting to read. Haven writes with an interesting style, and she seems to remember how she felt and saw life as a child. I envy that,as I cannot. He...more...]]> 877346 0385499825 9780385499828 46 8 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179115792m/877346.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/877346.A_Girl_Named_Zippy_Growing_Up_Small_in_Mooreland_Indiana 4 1 false Fri Sep 28 21:31:02 -0700 2007 Fri Feb 29 19:47:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 406185 0767915054 9780767915052 536 87 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174487728m/406185.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406185.A_Girl_Named_Zippy_Growing_Up_Small_in_Mooreland_Indiana 5 2 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu May 17 13:47:46 -0700 2007 Sun May 20 04:30:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 15171 0965030067 9780965030069 5944 1435 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166671570m/15171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15171.A_Girl_Named_Zippy 5 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Mar 13 12:37:05 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 12:46:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 15171 0965030067 9780965030069 5944 1435 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166671570m/15171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15171.A_Girl_Named_Zippy 3 0 false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Jan 16 10:35:44 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 10:36:08 -0800 2009
I somehow missed all the hype when it came out, so had no...more...]]> 15171 0965030067 9780965030069 5944 1435 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166671570m/15171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15171.A_Girl_Named_Zippy 4 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 16:51:59 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 16:56:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 877347 0767905318 9780767905312 70 20 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224444192m/877347.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/877347.A_Girl_Named_Zippy_Growing_Up_Small_in_Mooreland_Indiana 3 0 false Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 08:53:49 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 08:56:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 15171 0965030067 9780965030069 5944 1435 3.83 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166671570m/15171.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15171.A_Girl_Named_Zippy 3 0 false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 10:34:36 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 17:24:19 -0800 2009 Alas...I didn't connect with a lot of the references.
I still re...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=406185