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Bezig met laden... Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writerdoor Heather Lende
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Connections are important in life. ( ) This is a great book surrounding real-life emotions and grief that students may experience. In this book, Lende opens up about dealing with the grief, shock, despair and spiraling emotions that came along with losing a friend to cancer. Lende through out this book, gives the readers a inside look into her overcoming and embracing her negative feelings and turning them into life lessons, advice and reminders on how to navigate through life. Heather Lende's writing is better than the Hallmark Store gift book packaging and layout (pre-selected, enlarged quotes in fancy font with flourishes turned me off) of Find the Good would imply, but it was still a little flimsy overall. I may have gotten in my own way on this one too because Lende's description of her hometown of Haines, Alaska kept making me think of the 1990s TV show Northern Exposure, and I couldn't help reflecting that no amount of small town goodness would induce me to live somewhere so remote. Several interesting stories and lessons here, so I didn't entirely fail to find the good in Find the Good, but it wasn't as good as I had hoped. Nonfiction -- a quick and sweet read -- would make a great gift. Heather Lende lives in Haines, Alaska, pop. 2,000 and writes the obituaries for her town newspaper. Her approach is rather poetic and personal (and reminded me of the fictional Obituary Writer) and she shares in this collection insights on living a meaningful life. It also calls to mind the old 80s bestseller Robert Fulghum's Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Her overarching advice is to Find the Good and that is what she tries to do in each life she chronicles, regardless of their actions and attitudes while living. Her wisdom is also earned in her own life of raising 5 kids (1 adopted) and enjoying three grandchildren (1 unexpected). Overall well-written and transcends the trite. Her final advice is "Find the good, praise the good and do good because you are still able to and because what moves your heart will remain long after you are gone..." Short snippets about people who've died in Haines, AK by the writer of their obituaries. Interestingly she goes out to the house & interviews each person's family prior to writing their obituary... From the snippets they all seemed like they were good people... Did I learn anything else form this book? Not a thing, but it was interesting... so for that I gave a third star. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML:As the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Heather Lende knows something about last words and lives well lived. Now she??s distilled what she??s learned about how to live a more exhilarating and meaningful life into three words: find the good. It??s that simple??and that hard. Quirky and profound, individual and universal, Find the Good offers up short chapters that help us unlearn the habit??and it is a habit??of seeing only the negatives. Lende reminds us that we can choose to see any event??starting a new job or being laid off from an old one, getting married or getting divorced??as an opportunity to find the good. As she says, ??We are all writing our own obituary every day by how we live. The best news is that there??s still time for additions and revisions before it goes to press.? Ever since Algonquin published her first book, the New York Times bestseller If You Lived Here, I??d Know Your Name, Heather Lende has been praised for her storytelling talent and her plainspoken wisdom. The Los Angeles Times called her ??part Annie Dillard, part Anne Lamott,? and that comparison has never been more apt as she gives us a fresh, positive perspective from which to view our relationships, our obligations, our priorities, our community, and our world. An antidote to the cynicism and self-centeredness that we are bombarded with every day in the news, in our politics, and even at times in ourselves, Find the Good helps us rediscover what??s right with the world. ??Heather Lende??s small town is populated with big hearts??she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary peoples?? lives, and knits them into unforgettable tales. Find the Good is a treasure.? ??Jo-Ann Mapson, author of Owen??s Daughter ??Find the Good is excellent company in unsteady times . . . Heather Lende is the kind of person you want to sit across the kitchen table from on a rainy afternoon with a bottomless cup of tea. When things go wrong, when things go right, her quiet, commonsense wisdom, self-examining frankness, and good-natured humor offer a chance to reset, renew, rebalance.? ??Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted ??With gentle humor and empathy [Lende] introduces a number of people who provide examples of how to live well . . . [Find the Good] is simple yet profound.? ??Booklist ??In this cynical world, Find the Good is a tonic, a literary wellspring, which will continue to run, and nurture, even in times of drought. What a brave and beautiful thing Heather Lende has made with this book.? ??John Straley, Shamus Award winner and former writer laureate of Alaska ??Heather Lende is a terrific writer and terrific company: intimate, authentic, and Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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