Finished reading: A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver 📚
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Finished reading: Stasiland by Anna Funder 📚
Finished reading: A Life on Our Planet by Sir David Attenborough 📚
Finished reading: A Path Through the Jungle by Prof Steve Peters 📚
What a fantastic book. Strongly recommend it to anybody looking for some practical, step-by-step advice for taking more control of your mind.
A quote that hit home:
“Every day that we get up, we change. We are a different person from the one who went to bed the night before. By making small changes to your thinking and behaviours, over time, you will move yourself in the direction that you want to go.”
This seems like solid advice too:
“Sometimes, life seems more like a circus than a jungle. If you see life as a circus then stay in your seat and laugh at the clowns; don’t enter the ring and risk becoming one.”
Finished reading: Invisible Doctrine by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison 📚
Finished reading: How to Read a Poem by Terry Eagleton 📚
Finished reading: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 📚
Finished reading: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚
Finished reading: Cosmos by Carl Sagan 📚
Finished reading: Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks 📚
Finished reading: The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray 📚
Finished reading: A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle 📚
Finished reading: Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken 📚
Finished reading: Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley 📚
Finished reading: The Cold War by Odd Arne Westad 📚
Finished reading: The Collected Poems by Robert Frost 📚
Finished reading: Poetry in the Making by Ted Hughes 📚
This is a great short book about poetry and the craft of writing it.
Finished reading: The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe 📚
Finished reading: The Inferno by Dante 📚
Finished reading: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 📚
Finished reading: Bright Wings by Billy Collins 📚
Drawings of birds and poems about birds. What’s not to love?
Finished reading: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 📚
Finished reading: Regenesis by George Monbiot 📚
Finished reading: Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon 📚
Finished reading: Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller 📚
Finished reading: The Creative Act by Rick Rubin 📚
Finished reading: Naples ‘44 by Norman Lewis 📚
Finished reading: Wild Mind by Natalie Goldberg. This book was recommended at a poetry event I attended a few months back. Thought-provoking advice on the craft of writing, scattered with a dash of memoir and lots of good prompts to fight the blank page. 📚
Finished reading: Dickens and Prince by Nick Hornby. It’s a niche one for sure, but right up my alley. These two geniuses had more in common than first meets the eye. 📚