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Have you ever read a book you really hated? One that made you wish you’d never come across, or one that makes you wonder what others see in this book that you don’t? Disliking a book is one thing, but even more valuable is to take some time to pin down exactly what you dislike …
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Jan 2022 Curated reading recommendations for Brilliant Writers “Forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not.” — Octavia Butler Habits! Love ’em or hate ’em, they rule your life. And they have to, otherwise you’d never get anything done. You’d have to make fresh decisions for each of the thousand …
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In this article, I’m going to talk about: Why I read so much How the last reading year went The books I’ve chosen as my top 3 newly-read books of the year and why What my reading goals are for the near future And finally: the entire booklist for the year…more on that later 😉 …
The Complete 2021 Book List “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” — Oscar Wilde Looking for good books to read? While I can’t promise that the following books will necessarily be exactly to your taste, the fact that you have over 100 …
It’s The Final TBR Wrap Up for 2021! A bionic dog, seven remarkable women, a primer for becoming a brilliant student of life, and a graduation speech that…doesn’t quite hit the mark? Those are just some of the books I read this month. Read on to see what I read and why, and what I …
“Every day I fall in love with you more and more. Except for yesterday… yesterday you were pretty annoying.” — Anonymous Sometimes, love is butterflies and rainbows. Sometimes, love is gaping wounds and torture. And sometimes, love is just…funny. 😀 …Or so say the books that are featured in this installment of the “5 best books” …
5 Best Laugh-Aloud Love Stories (Books) to Tickle Your Funny Bone Read More »
“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world.” — Robert McKee If you’re reading this, you already know the power of storytelling, and you want to harness that power for yourself, to become the greatest storyteller you can be and get your ideas out into your world. But WANTING and DOING are two …
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The true story of a former abortionist, two based-on-true-stories books about a cross-cultural secret relationship and a trio of siblings who share the same identifying information as another strange trio of kidnapped siblings. In spite of the busy-ness of NaNoWriMo (attempting to write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days) and some recurring health …
America’s favorite TV uncle Mr. Rogers once said: “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” “Look for the helpers.” It’s good advice, especially in trying times. That’s why for this …
October began with books encouraging mind-workers to “keep going” and “work clean” (three guesses which titles that might be referring to, and the first two don’t count ;D) And then, as befits the month of ghosts, October’s reading ended on a rather somber note, with two Holocaust/WWII books (one fiction, one nonfiction), about heroic women who …