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Tim Brookes

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I was born in England to parents who were poor, honest, and loved nothing more than going for long walks, preferably in the rain. My education consisted of being forced to take written exams every five or six weeks, and eat school lunches of liver and onions-until I got to Oxford, where we had written exams every eight weeks and had lunches of pickled onions and Guinness.
This was quite enough to make me flee the country and seek gainful employment in Vermont, where I have lived for 24 years, writing a great deal, playing the guitar, carving endangered alphabets, and trying to grow good raspberries.

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	Guitar: An American Life 3.95 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 2005 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	'A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow': An American Hitchhiking Odyssey 3.37 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Signs of Life: A Memoir of Dying and Discovery 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Driveway Diaries: A Dirt Road Almanac 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catching My Breath: An Asthmatic Explores His Illness 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: Writing Systems on the Verge of Vanishing 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Endangered Alphabets 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing Beyond Writing: Lessons from Endangered Alphabets 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thirty Percent Chance of Enlightenment 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First-Time Author 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Introduction: A Snapshot

People often ask me how I manage to get so much done, how I can be so prolific. So by way of introduction, I thought I'd give a slice-by-slice pen-portrait of my day's activities, which are as representative and unrepresentative as any writer's.

I had a 9:30 meeting at a coffee shop with a colleague to plan the next 12-18 months of activities in the writing program I direct, so of course I got ther Read more of this blog post »

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“the flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to telling long, implausible stories”
― Tim Brookes, Guitar: An American Life

tags: guitar, humor, music

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“a guitar store is the only place in the known universe where a guy will allow himself to shop like a woman”
― Tim Brookes, Guitar: An American Life

tags: homor, music

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“Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists”
― Tim Brookes, Guitar: An American Life