Reading
This week has been a week of flicking through books for inspiration for my next painting. I had decided to do another miniature world to create a second card to go along with my mouse card:
I have a goal to try to create packs of six greetings cards. I want a safari pack, an ocean pack, a pond pack and a cutesy pack of animal characters. Researching things is my very favourite thing so I have so enjoyed this week slowly flicking through some gorgeous books. I will link them if I can but they may be out of print…
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden
Wild Flowers by Margaret Wilson
The Little Book of Mushrooms by Alex Dorr
The Bad Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle
My next painting is a mushroom cottage for two little ladybirds. š
Listening
This week I have been listening to The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods. This book is number five in the Amazon charts and has over 5000 five star reviews. I’m only seventeen chapters in but I’m still waiting to be grabbed by it. I’m personally finding it a bit disjointed and confusing. There seem to be three protagonists: Henry, Martha and Opaline. Each chapter focuses on one of these characters. It is realism mixed with fantasy and it may be this which for me it the problem. I am trying to branch out in my genres of books I read and I bought this knowing there was an element of fantasy to it. Unfortunately, I just don’t enjoy fantasy so this may be the reason I am struggling a bit with this particular book. I shall continue with it, because there has to be something in those five thousand five star reviews that so far has alluded me.
Another book I am listening to is The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod. I chose this one on purpose. I didn’t necessarily think Hal would be able to tell me anything I didn’t know, but I did want the motivation I thought it might contain. I’d read the reviews and I think the general message was pretty much what most people know to be good for you…get up early and get a positive start on your day. I finished it in a day and it did its job!
Watching
One of my favourite YouTubers is Ali Abdaal. I’m not sure, but I may have mentioned him before. He is a productivity guru. A Cambridge Uni educated doctor, he gave up medicine to become a YouTuber. He’s really likeable and relatable so imagine my delight when I found his new (to me) YouTube channel Deep Dive by Ali Abdaal. This is more of a podcast format as he interviews other entrepreneurs and creators. The latest podcast/interview is with Steven Bartlett. I particularly enjoyed the intelligence of Steven Bartlett, although I’m not sure about life being made small enough to fit into a few laws…I love the way he thinks through everything to its conclusion. In fact, I think it is the fact that he does just that which enables him to create these laws based around his thoughts. I also love that it is so obvious he wants to understand and learn from those around him. In this interview, Ali is meant to be the one who is interviewing Steven but mid-way through it switches a bit and becomes more of a conversation. A really great episode!
What have you been reading, watching and listening to this weekend?
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