May saw me able to listen to more books, while also continuing to read some older ones, and starting to read some newer ones at the same time. A bit crazy, particularly for me. Here’s what it turned out like:
Read
Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways To Propel Your Creative Life – Matthew Dicks
The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor Lavalle
Started and stopped
Extremity – Nicholas Binge
A Short, Sharp Shock – Kim Stanley Robinson
Reading
Write Down The Bones: Freeing The Writer Within – Natalie Goldberg
Earthflown – Francis Wren
Stress Less, Accomplish More – Emily Fletcher
Storyworthy – Mathew Dicks
Seems I’m definitely trending the opposite way I usually handle books — one done and onto the next — compared to having a number on the go at once. To be fair, as I mentioned previously, Write Down The Bones is a piecemeal kind of affair, something to be sampled a bit and pondered on, then returned to, so that’s a slow one by its very nature. Earthflown I started and got into, but then got waylaid by other books of interest that were (for reasons of library borrows, etc.) a bit more pressing. I’m hoping to rein in this multiple-books-at-once habit at least a bit to better focus on fewer things at a time, as I do tend to lose track of what happened previously when one (like Earthflown *ahem*) sits untouched for a while.
I’m finally starting to take on the Matthew Dicks-recommended reading or being more productive in “downtime”, so hopefully June will see more creative work produced and/or more books read. Here’s hoping.