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	The Memoir Club 3.36 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cosette: The Sequel to Les Miserables 3.20 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Educating Waverley 3.64 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Cookery 3.59 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Steps and Exes 3.60 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Graced Land 3.86 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	These Latter Days by Laura Kalpakian (Goodreads Author), Liza Langrall (Designed by) , Jean McGee 3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Caveat 3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Delinquent Virgin 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Truth Tales: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India by Laura Kalpakian (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Meena Alexander (Introduction) 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Hollywood Memoirs

Juicy, sometimes salacious, full of glamorous details or outrageous incidents, the memoir–with its whispered invitation, “This is true!”–far more than the novel, is the literary genre ideally suited to Hollywood.

Many people affected by the blacklist wrote memoirs. The ones I read were interesting, but not especially compelling, like actor Lee Grant’s I Said Yes To Everything (a great title)....

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Laura Kalpakian made a comment in the group Books on the Nightstand — Novella topic " Herman Melville's BENITO CERENO is one of the best stories ever written. His BARTLEBY is a classic too. Checkout THE JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY a ...more "
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“There are no real Californians. There are only people who live there and people who don't.”
― Laura Kalpakian, Steps and Exes

tags: california

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“When you bite into a chocolate truffle, you don't want to find oat bran.”
― Laura Kalpakian, Educating Waverley

tags: expectation, taste

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“She spoke with the usual cadences of the young: sentences curling upward at the end, all statements fading into a smoky, implied question mark, as though nothing could be said with any reasonable certainty.”
― Laura Kalpakian, Educating Waverley

tags: language, maturity

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