Thanks for the recommendation! Yea I agree a fantasy book could be potentially much better and internally fulfilling than a self help book and yea good points on the analysis as well. I still haven’t bought a book yet so I’ll research the ones you mentioned
yea true, it is a tough choice which book to pick. I also haven’t been reading much anymore since I began working full time about 8 years ago, so it would be a change to read a book again, it has been a while
I almost exclusively listen to books now. Most public libraries give you access to audiobooks through apps like overdrive or Libby. It has upped my consumption of books tenfold. I highly recommend.
Or like Atomic Habits if you were looking for something self development related it gives a pretty good overview of how to build habits well being an easy read and you can apply it pretty generally in life
If by wild chance you happen to be a fan of her music, Brandi Carlile's autobiography is one in a million, def worth the read if you like her stuff- or have found yourself with a mixed identity of dirt-road country and modern urbanity- she'll speak to ya.
Well I've heard good things about The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. Haven't read it yet, I'm looking to finish a bunch of other books I have in my backlog. However if you do decide to read it then I recommend reading his other books first since TBK is his magnum opus so to speak.
Okay, I just bought my first book with the amazon gift card. $10.24 including shipping and handling - so I still have $14.76 left on the gift card. The first book I got: Diseases Caused by Masturbation by Dr. Samuel-Auguste Tissot
"The Way of the Superior Man" by David Deida. I have heard a lot of good things about this book, and I want to buy it. Maybe I will order it now. A few days ago, a friend recommended https://uktopwriters.com/best-essay-writing-services/ . I will probably use this too, and have more time to read the book. It's cool that I already have plans for the weekend!
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. It's a story about a guy named Christian who goes through obstacles in his spiritual life. It's got a brilliant, uplifting spiritual message. There is a sequel, but I didn't like it very much.
If you're interested in writing your own book as I am, there are plenty of great resources out there to help guide you through the process. One book I really like is "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" by Stephen King. It's part memoir, part guide to writing, and provides useful info about the craft of storytelling. By the way, any Xlibris reviews? Additionally, "Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life" by Anne Lamott is another fantastic read that's both informative and inspiring.
You remind me, I have a gift card at B&N I need to redeem. What was I going to buy… Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac, by Stephen D. Smith. That’s what it was. Thanks for reminding me, dude. I have to finish Dominion: how the Christian Revolution Remade the World, by Tom Holland, then I have Feminism Against Progress by Mary Harrington, and The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. Maybe by the time I finish all of that, I’ll have my personal library back with an exponentially deeper TBR list, with some fiction in it. Because all of this nonfic is informative but a bit of a struggle if I’m honest, which I always try to be.
I’ve got to be very careful with this. Yes. A woman can imitate masculine thought and prose, but it’s a skill. In the same way, though, I could write something that could pass as Hemingway. It wouldn’t be entirely me, though. He experienced things I didn’t, so me writing like Hemingway would probably produce something worse than Hemingway, and also worse than what I could do by embracing my own experience and literary style. A writer should lean into their own strengths and identity, gender being one of those features intrinsic to self and the way it shapes our perspective. However, we need female perspective. We need to read women writing as women to help us become better men.
