It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with […]
92 Books
I’m still using Goodreads to track, and as of this morning, I’ve completed 92 books this year, 42 of them over the last quarter (March-June).
Coming Home to Harry
There’s a large poster of Harry Potter opposite my bed. It’s the “Let the Magic Begin” poster from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone where Harry, in all his eleven-year-old intensity, stares me down.
Writing Update: Big Magic
I’m reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic and swimming in all the gems of her creative wisdom. It’s one of those books that reminds me writing […]
When you give me an Arthurian legend . . .
I spent three hours reading (and finishing) Once & Future this morning by my apartment pool. The new young adult novel is a futuristic re-imagination of Arthurian legend. It’s set in space and Arthur is reincarnated as a girl, Ari. It’s also fantastically queer.
My Library Spot
As I’ve spent more time writing at the Central Austin Library on weekends, I’ve also established “my spot”.
The Stockdale Paradox
I’m reading Good to Great by Jim Collins and in it, Collins recounts his talk with Admiral Jim Stockdale. Stockdale was a prisoner of war […]
The Tao of Pooh
This morning I plucked The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff from my bookshelf. I first read the book (that explains the principles of Taoism […]
The Magical Mumbo Jumbo
Do you remember when the book The Secret came out? I was in high school when I remember the craze. Every time I checked the book out of the library for a patron I really just wanted to know what the secret was. One of my friends read it and loved it and tried to explain. But I didn’t get it. It sounded like magical mumbo jumbo and this from the girl who would do nearly anything to believe in magic.
A Feminist Self-Care Book Recommendation
I finished reading Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily & Amelia Nagoski this week and I can’t seem to shut up […]