Magical Thinking: True Stories

Magical Thinking: True Stories

2004 • 281 pages

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A collection of personal writings features observations on such topics as a contest of wills with a deranged cleaning lady, the emotional side of killing a rodent in one's home, and the brief fame that accompanies starring in a commercial.

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Magical thinking was one of my first forays into reading memoirs, and Augusten Burroughs did not disappoint. I laughed aloud countless times while reading this memoir, and never have I loved looking like a kooky book nerd more than while reading about Burrough's adventures in advertising.

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