[stylist] What have you been reading?

[Ashley Bramlett]

Hi Lynda,
What a variety of book topics. I am also interested in health and fitness so 
I think I'll read Want fries with that and maybe another title you 
mentioned.
I also enjoy biographies, autobiographies and memoirs.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Lynda Lambert
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:59 AM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] What have you been reading?

My reading the past month or two has not been extensive because I was 
traveling out of the country in April and May, and in-between have been 
working in the studio. I don't listen to books when I am traveling because I 
want to keep my focus on where I am and to really see in depth the place, 
the people and the wonderful things that are there. I do not travel just to 
check it off on my bucket list, but I travel because I want to know the 
place well and really appreciate all of it.

When I am making art,  I listen to great music. Classical, or cultural music 
from the places I have visited. I like ethnic and cultural music very much. 
When I listen to it I am transported back to those moments when I was there 
in person.

Right now, I am reading a collection of essays on spiritual matters. 
Spirituality is right on my front burner, all the time.

This book is _The Best American Spiritual Writing 2006_ which is absolutely 
fantastic. Many of the writers in the book are some of my favorite authors 
of books I have taught at the college in my literature courses. One in 
particular that I like so much is Wendell Barry - not sure if I spelled that 
right.

I am still reading _Simple Abundance_ by Sarah Ban Breathnach_ and that one 
is a day by day reading so I will just be reading it for an entire year one 
little bit at a time.

I was reading an extensive book on a 19th century French writer - but I just 
quit it because after listening to quite a lot, I was no interested enough 
to endure the rest of it. It was on Flaubert, and since I am not very 
knowledgeable on Flaubert's work, I had a hard time connecting with this 
biography. Maybe another time, after I read "Madam Boviary" some day.

I just read _Want Fries with That? Obesity  and the Supersizing of America_ 
by Scott Ingrfam. This book was very informative, full of information of 
learning to eat a healthy and nutritional  way. I love books on fitness and 
health and this is a priority in my own life style. I am an enormous _Body 
for Life_ book by Bill Phillips and I live by his fitness and nutrition 
plan.

I have two other books on the back burner and intend to read them soon.
_Melville: His World and Work_ by Andrew Delbanco   and _What Happy Women 
Know_ by Dan Baker and Cathy Greenburg.

The other thing I am doing is the 12 day Energy Healing Conference. Today is 
Day FIVE for it.

Every day, I get a new post from a different author and I am reading them, 
or watching the videos, or checking out the links for more information.

So my reading comes in between the other things in my daily life - my daily 
workouts at the gym, long cardio walks with my dogs, making pottery, and 
jewelry, writing poetry, blog articles,  keeping a very active Face Book 
presence, working with animal rescue, and doing exhibitions of my work.


My reading, I think, is a kind of glue that holds me all together and gives 
me inspiration. I am often inspired by reading the posts by some writers 
here on the list who write from the gut, those who understand intuition and 
follow that path.

One thing I know for sure, to be able to write well, you have to be reading 
and learning new things and doing research all the time. The more we 
uncover, the deeper we have to dig for more and more. Eve just spoke about 
that in her emails here, and she is so right on.


Gehen Sie mit Gott und Schmetterlinge
Lynda  River Woman




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