And, once again, I’ve fallen off my list of creative reading, this time with a book I had read once before: NutureShock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. I’ve read a number of Po Bronson’s books and enjoyed them. He tends to focus on sociological topics, which I find interesting. The study of people stirs creative thoughts in me, which is how this book relates to my Year of Creative Reading, even though it’s not…
I finished reading “Imagine: How Creativity Works” by Jonah Lehrer last night. This is one of the books on my Year of Creative Reading list and I really, really wanted to wholeheartedly love it, but I can’t. I was well on my way to loving it, having written a blog post quoting a portion of the book. If I’m compelled to quote a book, it’s made a serious impression on me. While wrapping up the…
I’ve done it. I’ve finally come back to my original Year of Creative Reading list. And with not one book, but two. I read “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles” by Steven Pressfield over the weekend. (Sometimes you’ve just gotta love short books that are a quick read.) Pressfield breaks his book into three main sections. The first is on Resistance, all of the inner conflicts that…
I don’t think I can go any farther afield in my Year of Creative Reading than “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan. I spotted it at the library (best place to serendipitously find books other than a book store), having wanted to read it for a while, and checked it out. And renewed it and renewed it again. It took me over a month to read, not because the reading is difficult, but because it’s…
See these tea boxes? They’re from my cupboard, which has many more boxes than this. I was having a cup of the Roasted Dandelion Spice DeTox (yellow box pictured) recently and it dawned on me that there is a lot to read on tea boxes. A lot. Not only do the boxes show the ingredients, there’s typically a story about the company or the tea bags or tips about doing yoga or fun facts. Even…