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Hi, I'm Lisanne. Survivors, frauds, artists, outlaws — I read their stories to understand what drives people, and what makes us human.

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Letters to a young poet
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    Books I couldn’t put down, and my thoughts on what they did to me.

    On Afterwords: Letters on the Death of Virginia Woolf — and the letter everyone keeps misquoting

    I came to this book sideways, through Waterstones and

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    What a WWII Novel Taught Me About Invisible Courage

    The Nightingale Book Review I don't read much fiction. When I do,…

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    This Book Challenges the Conventional Wisdom That Creativity Is Only for Artists

    Rick Rubin challenges the conventional wisdom that creativity is something exclusive to artists. This is my book review of The Creative Act.

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