Why I suck -- so busy working on the other blog that I have been sorely remiss at writing about what I'm reading. Though in all truthiness, I am reading much less in book form than before. Part of it is because I was working so much last fall that it was hard to read more than a page or two at night. Once the PJs are on and I'm in bed, the zzzzz start coming fast.
Now I have much more time on my hands and have been reading to improve myself, as well as catching up on magazines that have started to multiply on their own. I swear to gods that for every one Oprah I read, three more appear in its place. I do like my Budget Travel very much, though it is a bit of a tease right now. All I want to do is travel but budget does not allow for the moment.
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Luckily they are all the kind that can be read in short bits. With my short attention span brain these days, it's for the best.
I love Denis Leary. LOVE HIM. He's angry and bitter and harsh and a recovering addict, a stoked husband and father, a good actor and, ahem, kinda hot. I've read about two or three chapters and he makes me laugh out loud. I sometimes find myself getting defensive about what he writes but then suddenly realize I might be making his point by reacting that way. Plus he has a very very very clear voice. I would like to have a very very very clear voice with what I write.
Seth Godin's Meatball Sundae is general marketing in the new millennium info. It's geared toward business 2.0 and 3.0 and since I am a writer and am also trying to establish stuff online, I find it helpful and inspiring. He writes concise things -- my current email signature is his: "Remarkable is a choice". Good thing to remember so I'll get off my ass and make things happen, not just sit around waiting for someone to see how remarkable I am in my own mind (and office).
Mom bought me Disquiet Please, a collection of New Yorker articles. Somehow I find it more interesting and easier to read this book, article by article, than I do to read the magazine. Hmmmm.
Outliers I started ages ago (okay 6 weeks) and I do need to get back to it. I like Malcolm Gladwell, having devoured The Tipping Point and Blink.
I did also get a new book called "Such A Pretty Fat" by Jen Lancaster. The subtitles are: "One narcissist's quest to discover if her life makes her ass look big; or why pie is not the answer." The front cover already makes me laugh so I have high hopes.
Reading is fundamental.