Happy New Year '07

Happy New Year everyone!

Here's hoping '07 will have lots of successful writing for all of us!

Ho ho ho!

Hope you all have a Merry-Merry Holly-Jolly!

The Significance of Books

"Books are the carriers of tradition and the seeds of change; a source of solitary enjoyment and communal celebration; beautiful physical objects and abstract spaces for language and thought; work and pleasure; desirable and burdensome; always doomed and always thriving; cheap thrills and pricey enlightenment; worth talking about, worth fighting for, worth loving, worth sharing, worth making a life about."

--Jessica Stockton, McNally Robinson Booksellers, NYC

The Memoir in You

Since we're looking at writing some kind of memoir for the January discussion, I found this helpful site: How to Write Memoirs at BBC. Check it out. Maybe it'll inspire some of us, or have some helpful advice. As a sidenote (or strange coincidence) I just picked up Ellen Burstyn's memoir Lessons in Becoming Myself today at the library (which is so easy since I just have to walk upstairs from my desk at work...). Besides the fact that she's one of my favorite actresses, I guess maybe I really need some inspiration for this little writing exercise.