Posts Tagged ‘TV-Free August’
August is No-TV month
Monday, July 27th, 2009
My wife and two of our friends have managed to convince me to join them in a TV-free August.
There’s no anti-TV vent behind it – at least not for me. I love TV. Some of it’s great entertainment and some has superb writing. But turning it off for a month will be a good chance for me to regroup after leaving an extraordinarily busy job. I want to settle into a routine that lets me prioritise the things that matter most – writing and reading, and good conversation over dinner. Still deciding what I’ll focus my writing on but I spent some time tonight deciding my reading menu for the month. Here it is:
Fiction
- Wastelands – John Joseph Adams (ed)
- The City and The City – China Mieville
- The Writing Class – Jincy Willett
- Lavinia – Ursula Le Guin
- World Shaker – Richard Harland
Non fiction
- The Content Makers – Margaret Simons
- The Dumbest Generation – Mark Bauerlein
- Ghosts of Manilla: The Fateful Blood Feud between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier – Mark Kram
- Critical Mass – Philip Ball
- The Craftsman – Richard Sennett
- Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness – Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein
- The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging
- Why I Write – George Orwell
- The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear – Ralph Keyes
Not sure what I’m looking forward to reading most but I’ll report back during August about how I’m progressing and how much dust the TV has gathered.
