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
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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
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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
Permission to Offend, Rachel Luna
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.