Category: Book Thoughts
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In Which I Disagree With a Stephen King Narrator
I finished reading the first story in Stephen King’s newest collection, You Like It Darker. The story is about “Two Talented Bastids,” as the title so eloquently describes. These two bastid besties grow up in a small town in Maine. Around midlife, seemingly out of nowhere, their latent talents bloom, and they suddenly become wildly…
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The Place on the Shelf
For the last ten years, I worked for Barnes and Noble. Recently, I had the opportunity to finish school and go after my own writing career, which I’m happily pursuing at the moment–and that meant that I had to leave this wonderful place of business. A business that, I’m sure you won’t be surprised, works…
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Unpacking Books
It just goes to show that people do not care about your stuff as much as you do. I’ve been unpacking boxes upon boxes of books. Normally, this is not a burden for me because, in most cases, it’s like discovering the books I’ve meant to read for years all over again. Sometimes it’s like…
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Filling the Well, as it were
Julia Cameron, of Artist’s Way fame, recommends what she calls “artist dates” in order to “fill the well”–meaning you can’t create something if you are tired or empty, as it were. That state of “I have no ideas!” can be remedied by taking yourself out somewhere: to the movies, for a walk, working on something…