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A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries (1984)

door Thomas Mallon

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An investigation into the art and history of diary writing as well as a guide to the great diaries and private chronicles of the famous, the infamous, and the anonymous.
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At the outset, I felt as though I had really hit on something inspirational and there were definitely "pull quotes" I captured. The middle part - especially the chapter called "Apologists" felt strained and overly academic. Could be be and a lack of receptivity. I also found that when the author drifted back in time that I was less interested than vignettes from the 1800s forward. Not sure why. ( )
  shaundeane | Sep 13, 2020 |
accounts of famous and obsure diarists and methods
  ritaer | Mar 12, 2020 |
An anthology of diaries told mainly in the anthologist's own words.
  PendleHillLibrary | Oct 21, 2017 |
For a reader who is considering or curious about reading diaries or a reader who knows already they love them, this is a perfect read. Mallon divides diarists into seven categories: chroniclers, travelers, pilgrims, creators, apologists, confessors, and prisoners and then proceeds for a few pages to pick out some salient features, a quote or two, before moving on to the next diary. He covers a lot of ground. His purpose isn't to tell you the whole story of a person, but just to give you a taste, so you will be left wondering, in some cases, what happened to that person, but the obvious answer is to go find out for yourself! I've read quite a few journals as it turns out, Boswell, Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, some Nin, to name a few. Of course, many journals stray into almost all of these categories, I know mine does, sometimes its just a depository of ideas for what I'm writing, sometimes I'm describing something in detail because it might be of interest many years from now, sometimes I'm trying to figure out an emotional problem, and so on. A fine quote within a quote from the intro: "J.M. Barrie once wrote that the "life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another . . " Another enjoyable facet was that Mallon includes mention of some diaries of fictional characters. It took me a long time to read as this sort of book does, I could only read about a few diarists at a time. I should add, this volume represents an incredible amount of work!**** ( )
1 stem sibylline | Dec 19, 2015 |
A book about diarists and excerpts from diaries. Good for researching for other writers - not a book for reading cover to cover, but useful.
1 stem Jonlyn | Apr 11, 2014 |
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