Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
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Hannah, Delivered
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2014
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Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World
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2005
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Writing the Sacred Journey: Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir
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2004
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Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Spiritual Memoir
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2000
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Living Revision: A Writer's Craft as Spiritual Practice
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2017
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On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness
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2005
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Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Memoir of Bisexuality and Spirit, Second Edition
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Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Memoir of Bisexuality and Spirit
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Hannah, Delivered: a novel
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I was surprised by how quickly and thoroughly I was drawn into this retelling of Achilles's story. Miller's prose is gorgeous, and the relationship she imagines between Achilles and his male lover is rich. Once the Trojan war began, however, the nove ...more | |
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Part romance, part thriller, this YA novel is so sweet--and one long argument for being real in relationship. | |
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YES-YES-YES. Even though this book is a fun, easy read; even though Watterson uses a hip, Elizabeth Gilbert-type voice; and even though the substantive content peters out toward the end, here's an excellent introduction to Christianity's feminist (an ...more | |
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Grand, disturbing, hilarious, intimate--I thoroughly enjoyed following these children as they try to make sense of the insanity of adulthood. Anthony Doerr believes in humanity's basic goodness. All his characters, even the ones who go awry, try thei ...more | |
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At Cynthia Bourgeault's recommendation, I bought MEDITATIONS ON THE TAROT and gave it my best effort. Dense, esoteric, archetypal--I couldn't make heads nor tails of it. So when one weekend I had plans to visit two friends, one a life-long tarot read ...more | |
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An eclectic collection of the poet's thoughts and poems on writing, well worth reading. I adore Stafford's sensibility. His steady practice of writing without thought of audience and as a means of self- and world-exploration confirms my own. ...more | |
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An eclectic collection of the poet's thoughts and poems on writing, well worth reading. I adore Stafford's sensibility. His steady practice of writing without thought of audience and as a means of self- and world-exploration confirms my own. ...more | |
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A delightful, mystical, imaginative dive into a Norse trader's journey through Central Asia. I'm perplexed as to why this book is being marketed as sci fi. Because there's magic in it?! ...more | |
“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.”
― On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness
― 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.”
― On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness
― On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness
“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.”
― On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness
― On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness
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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.”
― On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness
― 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.”
― On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness
― 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.”
― On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness
― On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness

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