A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life

By
George Saunders
George Saunders
2022 • 433 pages

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52 books

Teaching

DebNance
Deb Nance
Tales from the Teachers' Lounge
Eleven Rings
Raising the Curve: A Year Inside One of America's 45,000* Failing Public Schools
Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade
Rain School
There Are No Shortcuts
Real Talk for Real Teachers: Advice for Teachers from Rookies to Veterans: "No Retreat, No Surrender!"

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114 books

Writing

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S is for Story: A Writer's Alphabet
Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Trial by Journal
This Is Not a Book
Write This Book: a do-it-yourself mystery
The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language

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53 books

Serendipity

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Draft No. 4
Stuck
The Zoom Trilogy
Chapter Two Is Missing
Every Little Letter

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249 books

Books About Books

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Shakespeare Wrote for Money
The Wednesday Wars
Better Than Life
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Biblioholism
Beowulf on the Beach
Bad Things Happen

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248 books

Wtr Consideration

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Dreamland
Recipe for a Perfect Wife
Loveboat, Taipei
The Vanishing
Cartier's Hope
Lost and Found Sisters

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228 books

Own

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Brig Berthold
Saving Noah
The Perfect Marriage
Small Things Like These
Bang the drum slowly
Independence Day
The Sun Also Rises

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28 books

Craft

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Brig Berthold
Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View
Structuring Your Novel: Essential Keys for Writing an Outstanding Story
Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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34 books

Did Not Finish

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halfmoon
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Underground Airlines
A Conjuring of Light
White Oleander
These Violent Delights

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13 books

Non Fiction

halfmoon
halfmoon
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
I Think Therefore I Play
Dear Girls
This Is What Inequality Looks Like

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5 books

My Libro Fm

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Kalina
A Fire Upon the Deep
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Witchmark
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life

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Library Audio Avail

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Nika
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Brown Girl Dreaming
Turtles All the Way Down
On Repentance and Repair
Nation
The Eye of the World
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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511 books

Non Fiction

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Eugene Wilder
Where Men Win Glory
Eiger Dreams
Eating Animals
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Way We Eat
The Rest Is Noise

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106 books

To Buy

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Exit Stage Left
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
The Journeys of Trees
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play

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165 books

In My Library

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My Cousin Maria Schneider: A Memoir
Trust
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
Birnam Wood
Time's Arrow
Our Share of Night
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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37 books

Favorites

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Our Band Could Be Your Life
Infinite Jest
Testaments Betrayed: Essay in Nine Parts, an
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Quarantine
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The Metaphysical Club

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2023

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Bretonische Verha˜ltnisse
Friend
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How to Be a Victorian
Frauen in Der Schweiz
Frauen auf den Philippinen: Erz�hlungen, Gedichte

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5 books

Storytelling

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Storyworthy
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t
Stories That Stick
Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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4 books

2024 Pending

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Fight Club
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62 books

Bestreads

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Literature

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life
Against Interpretation

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Technical

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44 books

American

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The Handmaid's Tale
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Breakfast at Tiffany's
In Cold Blood
Selected Poems

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Prn

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Who Is Rich?
The Rules Do Not Apply
Other Russias
The Idiot
Priestdaddy
Revolutionary Road
The Satanic Verses

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Literary Criticism

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Travis West
Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
The Caped Crusade
Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008
Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture

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2021

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