Daily affirmations of a word mercenary
Are there any books you recommend or any other sites/writers you find inspiring?
Sure, here are a few reads I’ve been inspired by:
- My Misspent Youth by Meaghan Daum
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
- A Woman Trapped in a Woman’s Body: (Tales from a Life of Cringe) by Lauren Weedman
- Last Days column by David Schmader
- The World According to Mimi Smartypants by Mimi Smartypants
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
I’m not going to link blogs for the same reason I don’t do a blog roll: we bloggers are an egotistical, sensitive lot and I’m uninterested in triggering someone’s insecurities over why they weren’t linked.
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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Valerie
October 29th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
I’m not the only one who liked Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers! When people ask what my favorite books are, that is usually one of the ones I list. Usually that answer is met with strange looks…but it really was an interesting (and humorous) book! I’m so happy to see it made your list.
Laurel Fan
October 30th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Fellow Stiff-likers (stiff-lovers sounds just too weird), I just read Body Of Work, another book about cadavers. It’s superficially about the same subject, but since it’s about one medical student’s relationship to her gross anatomy class it’s a very different book — similarly informative but much more personal and vulnerable than funny.