Library Loot: Creativity, Flowers
The library is a great place to shop for a single book, then cruise around the shelves for whole bunch of books on a single subject. Let's say, for example, a reader sees a reference to a book on creativity and writing by one of her favorite authors. She trips over to the library website and discovers, quite to her dismay, that the library doesn't have said book. What's a girl to do but shop around the shelves to see what other tender morsels are available for the plucking? It started with Ray Bradbury, whose Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity wasn't available in print or electronically at my library. It was, however, available on Amazon. (I will have it by Tuesday.) However, for fun, I clicked on the library database button "what's nearby on the shelf." I found Natalie Goldberg and her two titles: Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft and Old Friend from Far Away . Then there was Will Write for Fo...