Welcome to Miles of Books.

I'm your host Sarah Bowen-Shay, and I'm joined by Coach Liz Watershraught to talk about non-fiction books as we do.

Hello, Liz.

Your book picks for this episode are a bit different than usual.

So welcome.

Hi, Sarah.

Yes, a little bit of a departure. I needed to step away from the self-help positive psychology. I just heard enough of it for a while. So I said,

let's just go in a completely different direction, reverse it, back it up, turn it around.

And here we are, we will be discussing

nurturing your creativity. I know, I know. All right. So I like it. So the first book you bring

to us is The Book of Alchemy, a Creative Practice for an Inspired Life by Suleka Jouad. So tell us how you chose this recently published book and a few reason for why it defies

your usual guidelines for the books you read.

First, it has 336 pages.

Knock me over. Yes.

But before you judge me, judge me even further, because I actually chose this book based on the cover. It's a beautiful cover. I don't know if you know the book Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. Oh, yes. Yes. Uh-huh.

Like a swirly colors. Yes. Exactly. Yes. So, it's a swirly colors. Yes, exactly.

Yes, it's just a captivating cover.

And I did back that up with going on to good reads, which is we've talked about a few times.

It's kind of like the Yelp for books.

Mm-hmm.

And it got really good reviews on there.

And it makes me wonder how much purchasing is influenced by these reviews that I don't know about you, but I just throw like a star here and there around without giving it too much thought.

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