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Tag Archives: add

Book Reviews: Self Help

Of course, my goal for January was to read as many of the self help books I have sitting unread on my book shelf, as I could. I never intended to post book reviews as I finished each book, since these are nowhere to be found on the “Best Books” list. That worked out fine,…

February 3, 2014 in ADD/ADHD, Book Reviews, Books, New Years, Reading.

Can You Read This Whole Title?

Sitting in my most recent writers’ club meeting, my mind wandered to the issue of the modern reader and how a writer should and would respond. Most specifically, I was thinking about the attention span and the action requirements of the modern reader. Personally, I can relate. I have adult ADHD and even though I…

December 16, 2013 in Books, History, Literature, Publishing, Reading, The Artistic Personality, The Writing Life, Writing.

Artsy Phartsy

I have ADD. Or, more up-to-the-current terminology, I have ADHD, Inattentive Type, commonly known as Adult ADD. The reason I bring this up is this: I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about the generalization of being an artist, or the artistic temperament. I have suffered all my life from the same sort…

October 31, 2012 in ADD/ADHD, The Artistic Personality, The Writing Life, Writing.

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February reading: Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens; Knowing God, J. I. Packer; On Writing, Stephen King; Number the Stars, Lois Lowry; New Kid, Jerry Craft; Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Robert Sapolsky; The Well-Centered Home, William J. Hirsch Jr.; Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke; The Crimes of Grindewald, J. K. Rowling; and Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen;

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