My July and August reads included six non-fiction and six fiction books. Three of them were re-reads, ten were hard copies and two were Kindle versions. If I had to choose just one to recommend, I would suggest Bad Blood. The topic […]
This is a picture of a fraction of my books on writing, but it really does represent a good cross-section of my collection. I think they’re a little something for everyone here. Some of them are older, but I linked them to […]
Unhinged by Omarosa Manigault Newman I wasn’t terribly familiar with Omarosa. I was aware she had been on The Apprentice, but I had never seen the show, so this was my introduction. She came off pretty well in the account, as is […]
The Five Second Rule by Mel Robbins I expected this book to be gimmicky or like a blog post that had gone on far too long. I was pleasantly surprised. I picked 5 Second Rule after seeing Amy Landino interview Mel Robbins. […]
The Trespasser by Tana French One of the things I enjoy most about about Tana French’s books are the unpredictable twists and turns. For fans of mystery or thrillers there is a delicate balance between figuring out the puzzle and being baffled […]
Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz Equal parts Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. I wanted to say this book is a fun read, and it is, in the sense of how you proceed […]
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain I binge read this the weekend after Anthony Bourdain died. I had never read it previously. I knew him to be churlish and talented. I was unaware that he had struggled with substance abuse.I saw him as […]
What would be your ideal place to write? I think about this a lot. It frequently involves me living in the 1920s, maybe in Paris as Hemingway and Fitzgerald did. I’d roll out of the rumpled bed in my flat, and head […]
I’ve been an avid reader for decades but lately I find that I get sidetracked all the time with a million other things. Most notably in recent years, the Internet. I read, I read all day. I read websites, I read blogs, […]
Here is a great article from Publishing Talk regarding NaNoWriMo and similar writing challenges. My favorite part of the article is what the author, Sarah Salway says about an excerpt from Art and Fear: It reminds me of a famous experiment […]