https://thejaymo.net/2021/05/29/301-2121-the-self-help-section/ Jay Springett lives here on the Internet Sun, 13 Aug 2023 12:56:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://thejaymo.net/2021/05/29/301-2121-the-self-help-section/#comment-27195 Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:54:53 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=14338#comment-27195 […] podcast this week is on self help books and the people that read them. I wrote it in one sitting yesterday with a […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2021/05/29/301-2121-the-self-help-section/#comment-5640 Sat, 08 Oct 2022 19:28:21 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=14338#comment-5640 […] After university I worked WITH books. First as a Christmas temp then as supervisor. With a 90 min community each way, my life became books on buses. The employee lending library rules were very generous. I’d burn through 4 or 5 books a week. Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time. Robin Hobb and Brian Herbert’s Dune. It was an intense time. I read the Russians, Austin, Wood House, Greene, non fiction, history. Whatever.  […]

]]> https://thejaymo.net/2021/05/29/301-2121-the-self-help-section/#comment-337 Sat, 21 Aug 2021 14:15:01 +0000 https://thejaymo.net/?p=14338#comment-337 […] Since the pandemic began I’ve been working through a set of writing prompts. Exercise titles followed by a short paragraph giving direction. Some of these exercises have become episodes of 301. Like The Phones I’ve Known. Or the one about the kinds of people who visit the self help section in bookshops. […]

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