― Stephen King
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” ― William Faulkner
Entering 2013 I set myself a personal challenge: read one book each week this year; 52 in total.
Why? Because if you read well you write well. And, I really want to be a great writer.
The essence of this series is about books I read + that you should read… thus, ‘Read It’.
:: the list ::
(note: if the text is pink it means it’s been read + directs to a post about it. yay!!)
1. Blue Like Jazz, by Donald Miller
2. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
3. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
4. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins
6. For This I Was Born, by Brian Houston
8. Bittersweet: thoughts on change, grace, + learning the hard way, by Shauna Niequist
9. Another Man’s War, by Sam Childers
10. Bread + Wine, by Shauna Niequist
11. Jesus Is, by Judah Smith
12. One in a Million, by Priscilla Shirer
13. The Last Camellia, by Sarah Jio
14. Love Does, by Bob Goff
15. Half The Sky, by Nichols Kristof
16. More of the Fit Woman’s Secrets, by Lorna Jane Clarkson
17. One Thousand Gifts, by Ann Voscamp
18. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
19. The War of Art: Break Through the Block and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, by Steven Pressfield
20. Every Shattered Thing (Come Alive), by Elora Ramirez
21. 30 Words: A Devotional for the Rest of Us, by Jarrid Wilson
22. My Name is Hope, by John Mark Comer
…on the list to read…
The Devil Wears Prada, by Lauren Weisberger
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
Persuasion, by Jane Austen
Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, by John C. Maxwell
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, by John C. Maxwell
Moving Forward, by Dave Pelzer
…to be added
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” - Stephen King