Spread light ~ Write!
August was surprisingly more fiction-heavy than usual. We’ve got two ancient history retellings, a story about life from the dog’s point of view, and then a performance-mindset/learning book masquerading as a book about tennis. To see how I did this last month with my To Be Read list, keep reading! (To learn more about the …
Ever wanted to learn a foreign language, but not sure where to start or how to go about the process in the most efficient way? That’s what this book list is for! Some of these books are written by accomplished polyglots (those crazy people who can speak in a dozen languages or more) who will …
July turned out to be more fiction-heavy than usual, but I still got in a few interesting nonfiction reads. Fiction, particularly fantasy fiction, rarely catches or hold my attention nowadays, but this month I discovered a trilogy that had me binging the entire 3-book set in one day. Interestingly, it wasn’t even the best story …
Let’s face it: No one these days has a 50-year career in just one job/position/company anymore. Technology is changing rapidly and work positions, industries, entire fields of work are appearing and disappearing faster than ever. Which means if you want to not just survive but THRIVE in the new economy(economies?), you want to turn yourself …
5 Best Books to Make You a Learning & Memory NINJA Read More »
June was a bit of a dark reading month. Books read included a fictional retelling of a kidnapped woman and her son born in captivity, real-life interviews with people who survived Soviet communism, and two psychology books that contradict most of the popular psychological assumptions about mental illness and its proper treatment. Yep. Real light-hearted …
June 2021 Book Reviews: Room, Live Not By Lies, Reality Therapy, Positive Addictions Read More »
The following books are real door stoppers. I mean that physically and metaphorically. For this month’s “5 Best” booklist, I chose books that not only plumb the profound depths of our human experience, but do it brilliantly — with page-turning storylines that make the thousand-or-so-page-long experience feel like a too-short stroll in the neighborhood park. Not to …
5 Best Classic Books You Can Use as Self-Defense Weapons Read More »
As part of my plan to study story-creation in the next few months and beyond, I’ve been researching Booktube, specifically: TBR games. (More on that in future articles). Which is what inspired me to start a To-Be-Read project of my own. For the first couple months of this Project, I’ve been using a simple “spin …
If you actually want to improve your life, it isn’t enough to think about it. All success depends on what you DO. And not just what you do, but what you do, repeatedly. As the famous philosopher Aristotle once said: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit. If …
So you want to be a smarter writer, eh? That’s why you make the time to read — articles, and books, on a variety of topics. You want to fill your mind with fascinating fodder so you can be a brilliant writer and ever-more-interesting person, day by day. But have you ever cogitated on HOW you learn …
5 Best Metacognitive Books to Make You Smarter: The April Brilliant Book List Read More »
Want to Find More Incredible Books? I’ve created The Brilliant Writer Reading List to help you avoid wasting time on terrible books and only enjoy reading the good stuff.