Join the Homewood Public Library’s Not Your Mama’s Book Club on Tuesday, May 3rd. We are thrilled to welcome New York Times, USA Today, and international best-selling author, Laura Munson to our author series. Laura is also the founder of the acclaimed Haven Writing Retreats and Programs in Montana, where she lives. Her work has been featured in the New York Times Modern Love Column, O. Magazine, and many other media outlets around the world, including Good Morning America, The Early Show, and NPR. She speaks and teaches on the subjects of creative self-expression, and the power of storytelling to help people move forward in their lives. If you are asking yourself “So Now What?” …please join us.
No book reading required, discussion group only. Virtual discussion from 2-3:30.
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Check Out Laura Munson’s Book:
This Is Not the Story You Think It Is…: A Season of Unlikely Happiness –
When Laura Munson’s essay was published, “The New York Times” was so flooded with responses that they had to close down the comment feature. Readers wrote in saying that they had sent the column to all of their friends. Therapists wrote Munson to tell her that they were passing it out to their clients.
What did Munson write that caused such a fervor?
Laura detailed what happened when her husband of more than twenty years told her he wasn’t sure he loved her anymore and wanted to move out. And while you might think you know where this story is going, this isn’t the story you think it is. Laura’s response to her husband: I don’t buy it.
In this poignant, wise, and often funny memoir, Munson recounts a period of months in which her faith in herself-and her marriage-was put to the test. “This Is Not The Story You Think It Is…” chronicles a woman coming to terms with the myths we tell ourselves-and others-about our life and realizing that ultimately happiness is completely within our control.
More books that recognize the power of storytelling:
Bird by Bird, Annie Lamott – “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.’”
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King – King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported near-fatal accident in 1999 — and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it — fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling, Matthew Dicks – Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. In this compelling book, Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories. He shows that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.