Full name: Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

Author: J. K. Rowling Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780316369152 0316369152

In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life. How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others?Drawing from stories of her own post-graduate years, the world famous author addresses some of life's most important questions with acuity and emotional force. Similar books: Pranklopedia by Julie Winterbottom Hidden America by Jeanne Marie Laskas Notes From a Public Typewriter by Michael Gustafson Congratulations, by the way by George Saunders The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy by Sam Maggs Hella Nation by Evan Wright Parkland by Dave Cullen It Chooses You by Miranda July Girl Land by Caitlin Flanagan Once Upon a Quinceanera by Julia Alvarez Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow Say Goodbye to Survival Mode by Crystal Paine Rock Breaks Scissors by William Poundstone Quirkyalone by Sasha Cagen Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed by Meghan Daum