Bad On Paper27 Jan 2021

Big Magic Book Club

We found it fitting that Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert was our first book club of 2021. Becca reads this book every January to jumpstart her year, and we wanted to include you on her tradition. Reading this book is the creativity pep talk we all need so badly right now. Elizabeth approaches creativity with lightness and joy. Even if you don't consider yourself a creative person, you will take so much away from this book. We touch on each chapter and our biggest takeaways and share our own journeys with creativity. We love this book (can you tell?) and we hope you did too! Tell us your thoughts in the FB group and join us tomorrow for a bonus episode with the author!

If you liked Big Magic:

Daring Greatly by Brenè Brown
Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit by Steven Pressfeld
Like Brothers by Mark and Jay Duplass
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

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Heavy by Kiese Laymon
On Writing by Stephen King
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
The Lynching by Laurence Leamer
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

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If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

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