I scratched my head in a sort of anthropological confusion. Who are these mostly middle-aged women flocking to this island in pilgrimage to their favorite author? Where is Nantucket, again? Isn’t that one of those places fancy East Coast people “summer” as a verb? Who is this bronzed blonde bestselling author, “Queen of the Beach Read,” that, for some reason, I have never heard of?
Yay, I love that our new book bestie (from afar, lol) EH can give you a permission slip or two, too :D Book Lovers was so fun! I love geeking out about the industry, especially since so many of us reading are also book lovers (Beach Read was great too, and such perfect meta titles)
I love this so much, Jenny! I've found that I need to get at least ~2 hours of physical activity in per day or my energy starts to wane. So I'm using this permission slip too. It's not self-indulgent if it lets us get the job(s) done. There's only so much our brains can do if we don't tend to our bodies well, right?
I love reading fiction. It's my favorite activity before bed, and it helps me extend my imagination to not just what's true, but also what's possible. Thanks for the reference to Books, Beach, & Beyond. Looks like good "food" for my morning walks.❣️
Thank you Cristy!! And I love knowing that you try to dedicate at least two hours too physical activity per day too! It really makes such an enormous difference, and I find it gives me twice as much "juice" in the day with the extra energy, focus, and mood it creates.
Fiction before bed is the best, and I even sometimes fall asleep to fiction audiobooks — like being read a bedtime story as an adult 😆😴
To that end, Spotify Premium is changing my life since you get 15 free hours of audiobook listening every month, without having to buy the book on Audible! Total game-changer for exploring new releases . . .
I’ve always been a heavy reader, bar the year after I had my first daughter. But there was a long stretch, maybe 10 years or so, where, like you, I read more non-fiction than fiction. And, like you again, I’ve swung back into fiction and craft reads, and that feels much more aligned. I’m still reading non-fiction, but very little business ones. It wasn’t good for my soul, and some gave me the McDs feeling where you feel hungry very quickly afterward or wonder what the hell you just consumed.
I loved this, Jenny. And reading it reminded me of a point and reference my podcast guest, Emily Shaw, made on my show around the importance of strength to sustain our pursuits, creative and otherwise. She mentioned the book "Novelist as a Vocation," by Haruki Murakami, in which he wrote about the importance of being physically strong to have a sustainable creative career. At the same time of our conversation, Ryan Holiday wrote an article (https://ryanholiday.net/you-need-this-practice-in-your-life/) espousing a similar point, "Having a physical practice is essential to the creative life." And further, "If greatness is our aim, if we want to be productive, if we want to be capable of enduring the affairs of life, we need to take care of our bodies. We need to be strong and sturdy. We need to keep a physical practice so that it keeps us."
I have been resisting this because I was "too busy and needed to get to the chair ASAP." Using this as permission too. I also LOVED Book Lovers.
Yay, I love that our new book bestie (from afar, lol) EH can give you a permission slip or two, too :D Book Lovers was so fun! I love geeking out about the industry, especially since so many of us reading are also book lovers (Beach Read was great too, and such perfect meta titles)
I love this so much, Jenny! I've found that I need to get at least ~2 hours of physical activity in per day or my energy starts to wane. So I'm using this permission slip too. It's not self-indulgent if it lets us get the job(s) done. There's only so much our brains can do if we don't tend to our bodies well, right?
I love reading fiction. It's my favorite activity before bed, and it helps me extend my imagination to not just what's true, but also what's possible. Thanks for the reference to Books, Beach, & Beyond. Looks like good "food" for my morning walks.❣️
Thank you Cristy!! And I love knowing that you try to dedicate at least two hours too physical activity per day too! It really makes such an enormous difference, and I find it gives me twice as much "juice" in the day with the extra energy, focus, and mood it creates.
Fiction before bed is the best, and I even sometimes fall asleep to fiction audiobooks — like being read a bedtime story as an adult 😆😴
To that end, Spotify Premium is changing my life since you get 15 free hours of audiobook listening every month, without having to buy the book on Audible! Total game-changer for exploring new releases . . .
I’ve always been a heavy reader, bar the year after I had my first daughter. But there was a long stretch, maybe 10 years or so, where, like you, I read more non-fiction than fiction. And, like you again, I’ve swung back into fiction and craft reads, and that feels much more aligned. I’m still reading non-fiction, but very little business ones. It wasn’t good for my soul, and some gave me the McDs feeling where you feel hungry very quickly afterward or wonder what the hell you just consumed.
I loved this, Jenny. And reading it reminded me of a point and reference my podcast guest, Emily Shaw, made on my show around the importance of strength to sustain our pursuits, creative and otherwise. She mentioned the book "Novelist as a Vocation," by Haruki Murakami, in which he wrote about the importance of being physically strong to have a sustainable creative career. At the same time of our conversation, Ryan Holiday wrote an article (https://ryanholiday.net/you-need-this-practice-in-your-life/) espousing a similar point, "Having a physical practice is essential to the creative life." And further, "If greatness is our aim, if we want to be productive, if we want to be capable of enduring the affairs of life, we need to take care of our bodies. We need to be strong and sturdy. We need to keep a physical practice so that it keeps us."
This is what Cristy also notes below. : )