Books
📚💬 “… there’s no reason to believe you’ll ever feel ‘on top of things,’ or make time for everything that matters, simply by getting more done.” Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
📚💬 “… once you become convinced that something you’ve been attempting is impossible, it’s a lot harder to keep on berating yourself for failing.” Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Finished reading: Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell 📚
I really enjoyed this! Sad boys falling in love in space.
Finished reading: Whiteout by Adriana Anders 📚
Like if The Thing, that Antarctica episode of The X-Files, and a Michael Crichton book all had a baby with a romance novel. So, you know, pretty great.
Finished reading: The Earl Takes All by Lorraine Heath 📚
A wild premise deftly handled.
💬📚📝 “…a story’s as much house or garden as song.” Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
Finished reading: Falling Into Bed with a Duke by Lorraine Heath 📚
Lorraine Heath knows the job. Minerva Dodger is a delightful heroine.
Finished reading: Romancing the Beat by Gwen Hayes 📚
A very useful and straightforward book about romance novel structure.
Finished reading: The Heroine’s Journey: For Readers, Writers, and Fans of Pop Culture by Gail Carriger 📚
This is a great book about story structure that helped me understand, among other things, why Jean-Luc Picard is my favorite Star Trek captain.
📚💬📝 “…what are we writers but Machiavellian manipulators of a stranger’s emotions?” Gail Carriger, The Heroine’s Journey
Finished reading: A Duke Worth Falling For by Sarah MacLean 📚
I love Sarah MacLean so much.
Finished reading: The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa 📚
Cute rom-com with a heroine who has put walls around her heart and has to learn when to open the gate and let someone in.
Finished reading: To Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins 📚
Another awesome heroine.
Finished reading: Anything You Want by Derek Sivers 📚
Finished reading: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott 📚
A classic for a reason.
💬📚 “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
💬📚 “Don’t be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
💬📚 “You wouldn’t be a writer if reading hadn’t enriched your soul more than other pursuits.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
💬📚 “… everything we need in order to tell our stories in a reasonable and exciting way already exists in each of us.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
💬📚 “I don’t think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won’t be good enough at it, and I don’t think you have time to waste on someone who does not respond to you with kindness and respect.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
💬📚 “Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
💬📚 “Take the attitude that what you are thinking and feeling is valuable stuff, and then be naive enough to get it all down on paper.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Finished reading: Wild Rain by Beverly Jenkins 📚
I loved the heroine in this one. Spring is a tough rancher who has been cut off from her feelings for years, except for the feelings she has for horses.
Finished reading: Rebel by Beverly Jenkins 📚
Ms. Bev knows her business and does it well.
📚💬 “We can’t hide in romance. We have to find strength in it.” Adriana Herrera in today’s episode of Fated Mates