10 Recommended Books for your Self Improvement
⬅ Pin this! I’m always on the lookout for a good book. Self-help books can be hit-and-miss, but I love how there is always a good book for any topic. Dive into the books on...
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Review: How to write Fiction (A Guardian Masterclass) – Geoff Dyer
What worked: I liked how the book was split into different parts of the writing process and different critically-acclaimed authors each took a chapter and offered their advice and tips on how to tackle each...
Read MoreReview: Needing to Know for Sure – Martin N. Seif & Sally M. Winston
What worked: This book has been life changing for me. I picked it up to get rid of some recurring thoughts and habits that I’ve had for the longest time, and which had been rather...
Read MoreReview: Heartburn – Nora Ephron
What worked: Nothing. This was an awful read and I’m amazed by the good reviews of it through the years. What did not work: Racist. Boring. In serious need of an editor. Not funny at...
Read MoreReview: The Scholar and the Dragon – Stella Kon
What has worked: A page-turner! I could have read it all in one sitting. I always loved the way Kon writes dialogues – be it in her novels or plays. She has this ability to...
Read MoreReview: Weather – Jenny Offill
What worked: I’m usually not a fan of alot of contemporary authors who have a habit of writing a novel which just reads like a smattering of their diary entries. This one followed a similar...
Read MoreReview: Dark Tales – Shirley Jackson
What worked: A collection of 17 interesting, spooky tales. As with any short story collection, some are better and spookier than the others. But the thing I love about Jackson’s brand of horror is the...
Read MoreReview: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (#1 Hercule Poirot) – Agatha Christie
What worked: Christie writes great dialogues between her characters though and you can always form a picture of who the characters really are simply by imagining the way they converse. Fascinating. What did not work:...
Read MoreReview: More Horowitz Horror – Anthony Horowitz
What worked: The book still kept up with its themes of turning simple, day to day events and occurrences into creepy and near-death situations. This was the thing I loved most about the stories, it...
Read MoreReview: The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
Book started off interesting enough but it sort of cooled off for me starting around the middle. I thought the premise and the key ideas of discovering who you are and the purpose of life...
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