Straight from Andrea’s nightstand, bathtub, hammock stand, rollerbag and more….

As the saying goes, we’re supposed to become most like the 5 people we spend the most time with.

In a turn of the phrase, I think we also think most like the things we’ve last read.

What are the last 5 things of significance that you’ve read? Have you selected those items wisely and with care, or is your brain surviving on a dismal diet of metaphorical fast-food?

In this community, where we talk so much about thought, ideas and creativity, I sometimes wonder ‘who is reading all the writing we’re generating?’

It’s part of why I take SUCH a strong stance for ‘having something amazing to say.’ I mean, if YOU wouldn’t read your own newsletter, gol darn it, why would you expect a tribe of people to???!

Write something you would love to read. And so, a brief summer reading list. Because I find myself curious about what you’re reading, lately, why you chose it, and whether it was good for you, too.

Here’s a peek into my world, because though I am a happy published author and current writer of several new things…I am, after all is said and done, a reader.

Change Your Age:
Using Your Body and Brain to Feel Younger, Stronger, and More Fit
by Frank Wildman

The Art of Game Design:
A book of lenses
by Jesse Schell

The Cello Suites:
J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
by Eric Siblin

Discovering the Obvious
by Win Wenger

The UltraMind Solution:
The Simple Way to Defeat Depression, Overcome Anxiety, and Sharpen Your Mind
by Mark Hyman M.D.

Dirty Little Secrets:
Why buyers can’t buy and sellers can’t sell and what you can do about it
by Sharon Drew Morgen

The Joy of Not Working:
A Book for the Retired, Unemployed and Overworked- 21st Century Edition
by Ernie J. Zelinski

The Mobile Marketing Handbook:
A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Mobile Marketing Campaigns
by Kim Dushinski

Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
by Steve Salerno

Before you ask… I’m in analog on all of these. I own both a Sony Reader and a Kindle but use those really only for business and travel. It might be age, habit, stubbornness or all three, but I haven’t crossed the chasm into regular e-reading. The multisensory hedonist in me resists it mightily. And…some of these are rereads. Second or third time around. I like what happens when old and new books are group-read in new combinations.

So what can you imagine might arise from this mix? If my mind is most like what I’m feeding it right now, in what state of health or decay might it be? And why would that matter to anything? What difference does it make to you, dear reader, that I read the above, or something else, or don’t read at all?

Feel free so suggest books, comment, speculate, conflagrate below. “I showed you mine, now you show me yours.”

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