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Title: Escaping Into the Open: The Art of Writing True by Elizabeth Berg ISBN: 0-06-092929-4 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 30 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (20 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Encouraging Advice!
Comment: This book is as chatty and inspiring as all of Berg's books. Reading her books is like having a conversation with a good friend over a hot cup of coffee. I love the fact that she did not start out in a career as a writer, but as a nurse with an interest in writing. I particularly enjoyed the writing exercises which were simple and direct. This one now has its place on my shelf next to "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamott and "Wild Mind" by Natalie Goldberg. I'm looking forward to Ms. Berg's next book due out in July. I highly recommend this book and all of her fiction.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderfully motivational!!!!
Comment: I am a big fan of Elizabeth Berg's and I was thrilled to discover she had a book on writing. As a stay-at-home mother and published writer myself, it was wonderful to read about how Berg started. I was pleasantly surprised by the recipes at the end and I always enjoy Berg's direct, though quirky, sense of humor. I highly recommend this book, especially to women looking for some writing inspiration. This is the only book that I've read that has writing exercises I actually look forward to doing.
Rating: 4
Summary: Unconventional; A Good Thing
Comment: I enjoyed this conversational, encouraging, somewhat "splashed across the pages" writing book.
It is almost like Berg wrote the book as a Stream of Consciousness exercise with one chapter, for example, all writing exercises meant for elminating blocoking and another chapter filled with recipes and other chapters with excerpts from friends and peers.
This was vaguely annoying to me and at the same time, it was very worth reading for the tremendous gold nuggets such as this one:
"If you have the calling to be a writer, its not going to go away any more than the shape of your nose will. Your need and longing and the ability to express yourself will come back. Like love, you can't force it. Like love, it will find you when it's ready."
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"When you write, you need to have a certain willingness inside you, an auto induced mood of simultaneous quiet and energetic readiness that lets your imagination know its ok to come out now."
Berg is primarily a fiction writer, so she writes a lot about topics which would be especially beneficial for writers of fiction.
All in all a respectable, decent read but not among my favorites.
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Title: Ordinary Life : Stories (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by ELIZABETH BERG ISBN: 0812968131 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg ISBN: 0515120898 Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Range of Motion by Elizabeth Berg ISBN: 0515119784 Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg ISBN: 0385318782 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 06 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Joy School (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by ELIZABETH BERG ISBN: 0345423097 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 24 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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