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Laurie Kehler's avatar

Such a great list! I have most of them (except for fiction how-to). . .and I've discovered some new ones here. Thank you so much! (Or as my grandparents would say: Tusen takk!)

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Vera Golosova's avatar

This link was open on my computer since you published it. I wanted to be fully on while reading bout books.

On writing by Stephen King was actually the book that made me wanna read his books which I did after. Before reading his memoir, I only read the Dark Tower (fan!), but neer his scary stuff. Now I did read Carrie and want to continue at some point.

Back home in Moscow I have a copy of the Artist Way from 2008, and I NEVER managed to finish the whole thing. I started so many times, but it became such a bore very quickly. I love the idea of morning pages and try to journal as often as I find possible.

I need to read more Cal Newport for sure, and also this depressing business book too. Some truths are painful, but it is better to know them.

Austin Kleon is my absolute fav, I love the third book in his series - Keep Going - as well, while Show your work is my top one of those 3.

Recently I have read the Culture map by Erin Meyer - a book about working on the international scene. It is focused mostly on bosses-employees, transformations, merges and negotiations. But it is crazy useful to a solopreneur in arts as it shows how differently people from different countries think, work, communicate and feel. I find it a great support when I decipher comments from people from different countries, or analyze art makers that I love, or understand how I operate as a person with a certain cultural background.

I also just finished a book from a Finnish author Mia Kankimäki which is called Women I think about at night. It is also not precisely creative manual, but I loved her way of percieving women, solopreneurship, creative doubts, her exploration of art-life curves of women of the past and also very fresh perspective of such book from a woman from Finland, rather then from the US or UK - I felt very different way of writing, approaching and reflecting (gonna write about this book in my next dispatch most probably).

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