Not as bad as I used to be about buying books and letting them sit on the shelf forever, but still pretty bad at it.
Recently:
Khabaar
It’s What I Do
Fresh Banana Leaves
The Creative Act
Life in Five Senses
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Only one fiction book and it looks like I’ve been in a memoir-ish mood lately. Lynsey Addario’s stories of how she became one of the world’s most prolific war photojournalists was fascinating. I related to so many of the tensions of how to depict something horrific in a way that was still dignifying to the human in the photo while doing their situation justice.
Rick Rubin’s book is probably going to live on my nightstand for a good long while. It’s a book I can just pop open, read a couple pages from, and spend the rest of the day chewing on that particular insight. This is a must-read for creatives… which means everybody, according to both me and the book.