In the past six weeks, I packed, moved, and unpacked a house. I feel like I’m home now! This site has seen some strange breaks from blogging, so I’m not going to promise I’ll be back at any regularity.

I’m changing the focus of Rebecca’s Writing Practices. While I want to improve my writing and I’d like to write, my priority is my family. Any other time I have is mainly focusing on reading because that is my main interest right now.

On Rebecca’s Writing Practices, I will still seek out interesting blog articles about writing, I’ll still share quotes about writing and inspiration, and I may participate in some memes about or for my personal writing. I will probably chip in with my random thoughts about writing as well.

For now, since I’m interesting in reading about writing, here are some books on my “to read soon” radar.

Books to Read or Reread

• Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose. I’ve heard so much about this book from fellow readers.
• Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey. I loved diagramming while in middle school, but I haven’t done any since then. I’d love to revisit the idea, and this book sounds like fun!
• Bird by Bird by Anne Lammott. I’m only heard great things about this book.
• If You Want to Write by Barbara Ueland. I picked this book up at a library sale.
• Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage. It can’t hurt to revisit this every now and then, right?
• Strunk and White’s Elements of Style. This also deserves a reread.

What inspiring writing or grammar books have you read?

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