What are you reading?

[Jassassino]

Just about finished a re-read of Roadside Picnic. I liked it a lot the first time I read it, but I appreciated it a bit more on this read through. It just has such a unique tone that is present for the entire book. Colorful, but bleak underneath. Decayed and falling apart, but new life is springing up to replace what has decayed.

Really enjoyed Roadside Picnic when I read it about 2 years ago, it was sort of the only thing I could think about for a few weeks after finishing it lmao. Think it was particularly good at making me really care for the characters in these depressing scenes and set pieces, moreso than a lot of other books.

I finally started reading A Wizard of Earthsea last night as a break from Sci-Fi/Sci-Fi-Fantasy after the Thrawn Trilogy... and I fell asleep before I finished page 1... LOL. In my defence here, I've been working a tonne of overtime lately to prepare my bank account for the Christmas period, and the burnout is very much catching up with me fast.

[Helikaon]

Just started these three. A friend of mine recommended the first two, she said they’d be right up my alley for some reason. War of Art I’m hoping will help me through my first period of writers block.

I'm also going through a period of writers block, like immediately upon getting back into something I'm working on. No pressure but if you can remember, I'd love to know how/if War of Art works for you because I'm starting to consider drastic measures (entire bottle of whisky).

I'm about halfway through it at the moment, but it's already helped me a lot. It basically boils down why we don't create into one simple word: Resistance, and then spends the rest of the book (so far) examining Resistance as a concept and an enemy to be conquered. It's helped me immensely so far, recognizing patterns in my creative life that are undermining me. I've also been writing nonstop, both my coursework and my personal writing, since I first started reading it, so something is working, haha.
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