You’re not going to believe this. I have actually read a book that is on my original list of Year of Creative Reading books. Crazy, but true. One of my hopes for the list was to use it to find books that I might not find on my own. What with the shift of bookstores to an online environment, it’s a lot harder to find books using serendipity. Now we’ve got to use lists (normally…
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…
My Year of Creative Reading has remained steadfastly sidetracked as of late. I think perhaps that I’m building a new list, rather than just sticking with someone else’s idea of creative reading. One of the latest reads is Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities. I was attracted to this book because it’s a visual riot. I didn’t know the first thing about del Toro, other than he is a filmmaker, until I picked up this book.…