New Years Resolution Reading Challenge — Wednesday Link-up, January 15
Welcome to the Wednesday link-up for the New Year’s Resolution Reading Challenge. Do you have a review or progress report on your blog? If so, add it to the link list below. If not, report your progress in the comments.
The New Year’s Resolution Reading Challenge runs for all of January, so there’s plenty of time to join us!
Join us for another Twitter Chat tonight to talk about goals and books. We’ll be chatting at 9PM Eastern / 8 Central / 7 Mountain / 6 Pacific / 5 Alaskan / 4 Hawaiian. The hashtag is #WSchat.
As for my progress…
Be a Better Reader. I finished Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose late Monday night. Watch for a review later this week. I am reading differently. Unfortunately, I’m not reading the sort of work, at the moment, that benefits from close inspection of language.
Be Happier. I’m half-way through The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. See my earlier post for answers to discussion questions from chapters 4, 5, and 6.
Be a Better Writer and Be More Creative. I haven’t started The Memoir Project by Marion Roach Smith or The War of Art by Steven Pressfield – but I’m really looking forward to them. Which is part of the fun of this challenge!
I just finished the third chapter and since I’m not really reading it for myself I don’t know that I have anything to add to the discussion. I’ll look over last week’s post and the discussion points you make to see if any spark any inspiration. I did write a blog post that touched on my own feelings about a paragraph Rubin wrote regarding her experiences of failing. It resonated with me because I have been calling 2013 my year of false starts. Anyway, I’m feeling poorly today so you’ll forgive me if I don’t surprise myself (and you, I hope) if I don’t write anything that directly responds to last week’s post.
Oops. I forgot to mention, I finished one of the books I’ve had on my bookshelf for about 20 years (no joke) and I am about halfway through the book I marked for reading in January on self-compassion. One of my resolutions is to read the books I’ve had on my shelf for years that have gone unread. I’m focusing on both acceptance and compassion this year so the monthly book for this month is in keeping with that intention.
Just FYI, Joy, your link for Week 2 of the Happiness Project doesn’t work here.
Fixed! Thanks!