current self-improvement books
Submitted by taryn on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:03
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- vein of gold: a journey to your creative heart by julia cameron
- something more: excavating your authentic self by sarah ban breathnach
- seven habits of highly effective people by stephen r. covey
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these are all process books that take a bit of time to sink in (and thus have been on my list for quite awhile).
my impression of something more (or how i'm using it) is largely as self-expression through collage.
the vein of gold is a method of seeking to find your creative self by sifting through your past.
and seven habits is a classic text of self-realization, but one that usually gets caricaturized as office propaganda rather than a mode of living with integrity.
How do you like Stardust so far? My only non-Sandman Gaiman is Good Omens, which was excellent (but was co-authored with Terry Pratchett, so is not necessarilty a reliable barometer of Gaiman's novelistic skills).
i enjoyed Stardust, although i have to say i enjoyed Neverwhere infinitely more. i tend to like his darker mystical stuff, so Stardust felt light in comparison. but i did enjoy it--and it was a superquick read...
I'm personally eagerly awaiting the new Sandman book in trade paperback edition. But I'll have to check those out too. Gaiman is getting ahead of me . . .
I actually wasn't overly impressed by it. I think the Sandman stuff works better as short pieces. This one wasn't terribly long, but longer than a short story.
As for other Gaiman, I've liked all of them. Good Omens, Star Dust and Neverwhere. All 3 had different feels and were all quite separate of the Sandman books. His books of short pieces (stories, poems, etc) are also worth checking out.
Ah, sorry to hear that about Dream Hunters. I'll probably still check it out, just to complete the set. But at least now you've made waiting tolerable. :)
I do intend to check out the rest of his stuff one of these days.
Don't get me wrong, it wasn't bad by any means. It just wasn't as good as a lot of his other work.
Taryn, can i ask why progress on The Secret History has slowed to a near halt?
it's not the reason you think, actually--which is probably that i'm uninterested. quite the opposite--it's my second time around and i want to make it last.
also, my friend is reading at a rather sporadic pace and i thought it best if we read it at the same time and had someone to talk about it with. so don't worry!
(and on side note, i just finished Stephen King's book On Writing and in the back he has a recommended reading list--and donna's book appears! i was quite pleased to be in the know about it.)
I'm glad to see you finished The Secret History! :-)
Or did you?
oh yes... twice! and i think there was a "and a half" in there somewhere... ;)
i really need to get my hands on her second novel, too. why are libraries so deadly slow at getting newish releases?