What does reading look like at your end of the world?
Are you by a Loch on a seemingly unending day?
Maybe it’s autum,
and you’re reading your book in your cozy socks with your little one sleeping under a knitted blanket?
Do you slip your book in your bike bag when you go for a ride?
Or pack it in your luggage as you set out to see the world?
Even if we’re all reading in our own unique ways.
We’re all here together.
And we remembered to do what really matters:
Pick up a great book.
Because each time you read you…
make your life a little better,
heal yourself, become kinder, more empathetic,
find the strength to get through even the worst of times,
make a little more sense of the world, forge meaning,
or maybe you escape for a little bit, so you can come back stronger,
you find hope,
and yes,
you become a better writer too.
One book at a time.
I’m always excited when we vote for books in our creative community.
Every time.
Because I know that our tiny community of multilingual writers and creatives from around the world is going to come up with books that will astound me.
So, if you want to dive into a book, understand the world (or escape it for a bit) find hope, meaning, develop your empathy, turn off your stress and turn on your creativity…And yes, become a better writer in the process.
Here’s what we’ll be reading for the next 6 months.
July: Long Way Down The Graphic Novel
by Jason Reynolds, Danica Novgorodoff (Illustrator)
August: What You Can See from Here
by Mariana Leky, Tess Lewis (translator)
September: The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
by Jane Goodall
October: Before the Coffee Gets Cold #1
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (Translator)
November: Stim: An Autistic Anthology
by Lizzie Huxley-Jones
December: The Paris Network
by Siobhan Curham
January: The Undomestic Goddess
by Sophie Kinsella
How can read alongside our Vagabond Community?
Are you inspired to read one of these? Or have you read one already? Tell me about it in the comments.
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