[Book] Reports

Through reflections on Resistance and the Muse, Steven Pressfield reminds us all that when it comes to creative endeavors, we just need to do the work with consistency. Because the doing is the point.

Poet Maggie Smith writes about her divorce as she is going through it, full of self reflection, grief, anger, and gratitude.

It’s creepy in a way I’m sure I wouldn’t like if it were a movie, but in book form it’s intriguing.

A man lives in a labyrinth of “rooms” where the tide brings in the sea and the walls are filled with statues.

Each essay tells the story of a federal employee; someone who, without fanfare or acclaim, has solved an important problem or streamlined their department or just been exceptional at their job for years.

Written in 1899, The Awakening is “one of the greatest feminist novels ever written”.

“Whether government is bigger or smaller is the wrong question. What it needs to be is better.”

Across the long arc of history, and in all realms, men are the default human and women are a variation from that norm.

Bud Stanley is floundering. He’s forty something, recently(ish) divorced, a formerly aspiring journalist, who has been working the obituary beat for years and not even doing a very good job of it.

“The Ministry of Time” is a novel about a group of people who have been brought from the past…

Gamache finds himself having to solve a murder surrounding the arrival of a very controversial scientist who has just arrived in town.

a work of investigative journalism that digs into the problem of domestic violence in America

This story is a work of historical fiction that centers around the life of a young woman, “Frankie”, who served as a combat nurse in Vietnam.

In beginning the practice of writing alongside or at the end of a book, I hope to accumulate a catalog of thoughts and ideas that I can return to.