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Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

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CBR10Bingo: Throwback Thursday I was all set to read Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon for my Throwback Thursday square, but I’d been struggling so much recently with my writing that I made a last-minute substitution, needing the pick-me-up that Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird never fails to deliver. When I decided to get back into writing 13 years ago, Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird was the first of many books on writing that I bought and read, but so far it’s the only one I’ve reread . . . and reread . . . and reread. This is at least […]

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9/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:49 |

Perhaps I should stop seeing myself as an individual and start identifying myself with the totality, but I just can’t do that.

The Faster I Walk The Smaller I Get; Some Trick: Generations; Fight No More; writing; The Ravishing of Lol Stein; The Killing Ground; Charley Bland by Kjersti Skomsvold; Helen DeWitt; Flavia Biondi;Lydia Millett; marguerite duras; mary lee settle

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The Faster I Walk….. 3/5 Stars I picked this one up because it was short and in the new books section of the library and I like little Scandinavian books, and this one was an odd and curious little gem of a book. The story here is about a woman living with a man and sort of trying to figure out who she is in the world. She’s closed off emotionally, she reads a lot, she thinks about death a lot, and she makes little plans and little days and focuses her energies on those. It’s one of those books […]

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7/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:234 |

Late Contender for Favorite Book of the Year

A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age by Emmy J. Favilla

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Best for: People who enjoy words. People interested in how language use has changed since the internet. In a nutshell: Buzzfeed Copy Chief shares her perspective on language use for online writing. Line that sticks with me: “Shakespeare used the singular they, as did a gaggle of other writers, including Jane Austen and Geoffrey Chaucer, as long ago as the 1300s. This is not a new trend, people!” (p 219) Why I chose it: I love words and writing. Review: A couple of years ago you might recall seeing stories about the “style guide for the internet.” Ms. Favilla was […]

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12/27/2017 's CBR9 Review No:100 |

Why do we write?

Devotion by Patti Smith

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  “Why do we write? A chorus erupts. Because we cannot simply live.”   I adore Patti Smith. I’ve never been a huge fan of her music or followed her career. To me she is an artist that lives on the edge of my perception. I know her, but she is just there. A few years ago I picked up “Just Kids”, I don’t remember why. I loved it. Patti Smith lives life straight from the heart. In devotion Smith takes the time to reflect and wonder about the creative process of writing. The book is split in three parts. […]

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10/28/2017 's CBR9 Review No:32 |

A Sea Change in My Creative Process

Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch

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Many of the stories I love the most descended from either Twin Peaks or Blade Runner. I love everything about the worlds in both. And, Twin Peaks was my gateway drug to David Lynch, the famous painter/filmmaker/transcendental meditation evangelist. If you’re familiar with David Lynch’s catalog (Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet), you’d think a trip into his mind would be terrifying. However, I found Lynch’s audiobook on creativity and meditation to be nothing but comforting and encouraging.  In Catching the Big Fish, which Lynch himself reads (he sounds so nice and middle American), the author provides a little bit of […]

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10/2/2017 's CBR9 Review No:49 |

Saying Goodbye to an Old Friend

A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction by Terry Pratchett

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I didn’t think this book would be so emotionally difficult to get through. As readers of someone else’s fiction, it’s difficult to remember that there’s a real, down-to-earth, eats-and-breathes human behind the characters and fake world we so fall in love with. Terry Pratchett is himself, and even though Discworld was born from his head like Athena from Zeus, he’s not Discworld or any of the characters in it. In fact, to read his nonfiction is to sit in a very earthly room beside him having a very earthly conversation over a hot cup of milky tea and you feel […]

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8/17/2017 's CBR9 Review No:18 |

A tale of plotters for pantsers.

The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler

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In writing there’s two types: the plotters and the pantsers. The plotters decide and document the entire plot before writing. The pantsers start writing and hope that a plot sorta happens along the way. Spoiler alert: Plots don’t usually happen that way. Also spoiler: I’m a totalt pantser. So in an effort to learn how to be a plotter I’ve been picking up some books. This is the first one I’ve finished. The writer’s journey is based on the idea that all stories are basically the same. They have certain elements and structures that are universal and the book tries […]

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7/28/2017 's CBR9 Review No:19 |


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