Nothing Stays Buried by P.J. Tracy
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is the latest in a series of solid mystery/thriller novels. The craftsmanship is solid. The story is maybe a tad formulaic but I do not care. I will go on reading the entries in this series as long as they are produced.
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The premise of the book is that we sabotage ourselves every time we seek to be creative. Writers call this writer’s block. Every creative profession has its analog. Pressfield calls this “resistance”. He goes through a lot of detail about what resistance looks like, and what creatives can do to resist resistance. There is good advice here. My difficulty with the book is that it is couched in a lot of mystical language. As a lifelong skeptic, I have resistance to this language. Sorry, I just could not resist.
I’m glad that I read the book, but I doubt if I’ll read it again. It was valuable, but not that valuable.
Jon Stonecash, Writer 