100 books meme

[queenlua]

here's a list of 100 books that were formative to me in some way, changed me in some way, etc etc

some books have aged better than others but are still there out of, y'know, honesty

i am probably forgetting so much shit from my childhood lol. alas i am not in front of my childhood bedroom bookshelf so i cannot stare at it to try and remember!

ANYWAY. how many books overlap OR (because this is more interesting than a number): any overlaps we share that are particularly exciting? any books you want to hear me ramble about?

Comments

[queenlua]

hahaha, art and fear is not really about horror aesthetics! it's a pretty thin volume that's like. one of those How To Do Art/Creative-Stuff advice books, right. which is normally a genre i'm tetchy about (i hate feeling like i'm being barked at or condescended to; i hate advice that feels so generic as to be useless; i hate how 101-tier so much of them are)... but that one had enough insights that did sort of reframe how i think about, like. how to Set Up Your Life in a way such that The Art Keeps Flowing, in a way that was less hustle-culture-grindset and more woo-zen but like. actionable ones?

this passage is pretty representative of the better takeaways one might get from the book, so if you dig that it may be good! and if not it's SHORT at least lol

[blotthis]

oh, still interesting!! i'm definitely working on How To Work without Relying on Fear so consider this recommendation taken