BookTube Spin #1!

Getting in on the fun of the BookTube Spin!

Rick MacDonnell's video describing the Spin:

My Categories and Selections:

A Book That Has Been on My Shelf for More than 10 Years
1. Women Write: A Mosaic of Women Voices in Fiction, Poetry, Memoir and Essay edited by Susan Cahill
2. Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Muller
3. The O. Henry Awards Prize Stories 1997
4. Final Vinyl Days by Jill McCorkle
5. The Liar's Club by Mary Karr

A Book That Fulfills a 2021 Reading Challenge
6. Trials of a Scold: The Incredible True Story of Writer Anne Royall by Jeff Biggers
7. The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasure of Obituaries by Marilyn Johnson
8. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
9. The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
10. The Answer to Your Question by Paulette Alden

A Book That Will Motivate Me to Write My Damn Book
11. Strike the Empty: Notes for Readers, Writers, and Teachers of Memoir by Beth Kephart
12. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
13. The Art of Time in Memoir by Sven Birkerts
14. Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process edited by Joe Fassler
15. Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer

A Book By an Author I've Met:
16. The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
17. The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
18. Aperiogon by Colum McCann
19. The Angel on My Chest by Leslie Piet

Other Books Mentioned:
Crossing the Moon: A Memoir by Paulette Bates Alden
Borrowed Time by Paul Monette

BookTubers Mentioned:
A Bibliophile's Journey