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Title: The Power of Personal Storytelling: Spinning Tales to Connect With Others by Jack Maguire ISBN: 0-87477-930-8 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A very gentle and encouraging book!
Comment: By reading this book and doing the activities suggested at the end of each chapter, the reader will have at least one personal story to tell. And Jack Maguire comes across as very understanding and encouraging in the way he leads the reader through the whole process of personal story-making.
Maguire begins with the ideas, "Why tell personal stories?" and "Reclaiming your storyloving self." Then he moves on to ways for coming up with story ideas. That done, he helps the reader with actually putting together a story. Next comes discussion about what Maguire calls "embodying the story," an alternative to "memorizing the story." In chapters 20-23, he talks about how storytelling can be used at home, at work and in the community. And he's only finished after encouraging the reader to "take the telling leap."
This is a great book for learning to tell our own stories.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well-written, useful, and fun
Comment: Something gave me an itch to make a hobby out of personal storytelling. I didn't know where to begin, but I found this book at Amazon.com (wasn't available in the bookstores). The title looked catchy, so I decided to give it a shot. I was richly rewarded!
The day may come when Storytelling re-emerges as a national pasttime. If it does, this book may very well be the handbook of such a revlotion.
The exercises are fun and enlightening. I've found my childhood memories to be more full of color and vitality after following Maguire's suggestions. The story prompts in the Appendix are just a ton of fun, too, if you want to get some freinds together and have a good time.
Well done, Jack!
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent resource for storytellers at all levels.
Comment: Jack Maguire has a well organized approach to storytelling that provides resources for an individual wishing to tell his or her own story, for storytellers who want to develop some personal stories in their repetoire, and for those working in therapeutic settings. His selection of quotations about story are set clearly in wide margins and are unusually diverse and concrete. The book is chock full of ideas for finding your own story and for ways of helping others do the same. He interwines his personal experiences in ahelpful way to encourage the storyteller at anylevel.
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Title: The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion Through the Art of Storytelling by Annette Simmons ISBN: 0738206717 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 04 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Improving Your Storytelling: Beyond the Basics for All Who Tell Stories in Work or Play (American Storytelling (Paper)) by Doug Lipman ISBN: 0874835305 Publisher: August House Pub Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Way of the Storyteller by Ruth Sawyer ISBN: 0140044361 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1977 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Springboard : How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations by Stephen Denning ISBN: 0750673559 Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Pub. Date: 06 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Storyteller's Start-Up Book: Finding, Learning, Performing, and Using Folktales: Including Twelve Tellable Tales by Margaret Read MacDonald ISBN: 0874833051 Publisher: August House Pub Pub. Date: July, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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