Reading List

Blogs

Nick Reeves ≈ fictionalpaper / piccoloscissors / creativeglue ≈
Stories, fragments of dreams, collage, found object subject.

John Wreford Photographer ~ Words and Pictures from the Middle East & Balkans
Words and images of haunting beauty and humanity from a largely misunderstood part of the world.

Parallax – Poetry by Paul Vincent Cannon

Books

2023

We Loved the World but Could Not Stay, Gary Lippman
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola

2022

Stone Junction, Jim Dodge
How to Be Invisible, Kate Bush
Intuitive Self-Healing, Marie Manuchehri
Once I Gazed at you in Wonder, Jan Heller Levi
Looking Within: Life Lessons from Lal Ded edited by Shonaleeka Kaul
The Princess and the Prick, Walburqa Appleseed
Langdimania, Lach
No One is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood
Smart Cuts, Shane Snow

2021

How to Write One Song, Jeff Tweedy
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez
The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene
Set the Controls for the Heart of Sharon Tate, Gary Lippman
Existential Kink, Carolyn Elliot

2020

Choice Centered Tarot, Gail Fairfield
The New Mythic Tarot, Juliet Sharman-Burke and Liz Greene
Future Home of the Living God, Louise Erdrich
Devotion, Patti Smith
The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron
M Train, Patti Smith
My Sister, My Love, Joyce Carol Oates
Personality Isn’t Permanent, Benjamin Hardy, PhD
How to Co-Create with the Secret Language of the Universe, Pam Gregory
Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in 3 Panels, Lisa Brown
Tarot as a Way of Life: A Jungian Approach to the Tarot, Karen Hamaker-Zondag
Dharma Punx, Noah Levine

2019

The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
Becoming Supernatural, Dr Joe Dispenza
The Intention Experiment, Lynne McTaggert
The One Inside, Sam Shepard
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
The Power of Eight, Lynn McTaggert

2018

The War of Art, Steven Pressfield
Wild, Cheryl Strayed
Shakti Mantras: Tapping into the Great Goddess Energy Within, Thomas Ashley-Farrand
May Cause Miracles, Gabrielle Berstein
Outrageous Openness: Letting the Divine Take the Lead, Tosha Silver
The Great Failure: A Bartender, A Monk, and my Unlikely Path to Truth, Natalie Goldberg
The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman
You are a Badass at Making Money, Jennifer Sincero
Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut
Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut
Nakiwulo and the Circle of Shiva, Gregory Cholmondeley
Spent Saints, Brian Jabbas Smith

2017

Ahab’s Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer, by Sena Jeter Naslund
The Beach, by Alex Garland
A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life, by Ayelet Waldman
Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Presence Process, Michael Brown

Currently Reading

The Golden Bough, Sir James George Frazer

Joy Road, Julie Evans

To Sell is Human, Daniel H. Pink

Creatives on Creativity: 44 Creatives in Conversation with Steve Brouwers, Steve Brouwers

Fair Use: notes from spam, Graham Parker

Mayflies, Andrew O’Hagan

The Artist’s Guide: How to make a living doing what you love, Jackie Battenfield

Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill

Understanding Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot: New Edition, Lon Milo DuQuette

The People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Super Attractor: Methods for Manifesting a Life Beyond Your Wildest Dreams, Gabrielle Bernstein

Finn, Jon Clinch

Miracles Now, Gabrielle Bernstein

You are a Badass at Making Money, Jennifer Sincero

Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home, Toko-pa

Book of Longing, Leonard Cohen

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Walking on Water, Derrick Jensen

Black Boy, Richard Wright

The Subtle Body Practice Manual, Cyndi Dale

The Complete Book of Chakra Healing, Cyndi Dale

The Ultimate Reiki Touch, by Paula Horan

Writing Down the Bones, by Natalie Goldberg

If the Buddha Got Stuck, by Charlotte Kasl

A Course in Miracles

The GoodLife Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands-on Living, by Wendy Jehanara Tremayne

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe

Wish List

The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, JT LeRoy

Sarah, JT LeRoy

Porn Carnival, Rachel Rabbit White

The Lyrics, Paul McCartney

The Green Witch Tarot, Kiri Leonard

Archery In The U.K. (New Lyrical Ballads & Other Poems) by Ingrid Wilson & Nick Reeves

Books I Didn’t Get Through

Life Force, Tony Robbins – Maybe I will look at this one again, but it bugged me that it was a big commercial for Tony’s health products and investments. There is fascinating and useful information if you can sift through the sales pitches. It felt like if Instagram was a fat book. If it wasn’t a library book I would have been pissed.