book reports

Yeah, I am still a nerd for book reports.  These are my signature "cliff notes".  Read my spin on titles and excerpts I've chosen to quote.  Check back often.  I am always adding to the list!

The creative process and Van Gogh

A creative inspiration, Brenda Ueland, writes on well being and her philosophies on life/living.

To find the best work/play environment for you, this book had a quiz

The Accidental Creative and purposeful experience

The Wishcraft of creative consciousness

Making the Leap (of consciousness)

Steal Like An Artist  by Austin Kleon

Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier 

Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod

Rules and Hints for Students and Teachers and the creative process

One book mentioned here but mostly a review on 3 inspirational blogs

How I find my books for my book reports

Breaking through creative blocks

The perseverance of Booker T Washington or John Muir

Get your grace on with Seth Godin's personal manifesto.

Need more grace?  Anne Lamott's Grace (Eventually)

Read a few interesting snippets and quotes from artists and the book, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

On The War of Art

Philosophical and full of good story telling.  An inspiring read for the creative mind.  Education of a Wandering Man.

Dear Ijeawele, or, A feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As of September 2017, my latest favorite, Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

on being an introvert: May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

The Misfit's Manifesto

Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn and Thrive Outside the Lines (quotes)

Quotes (notes) from Manifesto On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo

Make Good Art (excerpts from one chapter in Neil Gaiman's book, A View from the Cheap Seats).

On Writing, a memoir of the Craft by Stephen King