Sue Monk Kidd

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And I gotta shout-out Sue Monk Kidd.

For those, uh, my book, Faithfully Dissident Daughters, is titled after Sue Monk Kidd's, um, kind of like a classic memoir.

Hers is called Dance of the Dissident Daughter, where she discovers divine feminine.

Um, and so I, I mean, she's just a huge inspiration to me, and so I titled my book after her.

I've been noticing my own Venus retrograde story getting a little louder this week, especially around work, money, and what I really want my business to become.

Venus is retrograde in my sixth house, and lately I've been reading Sue Monk Kidd's book about writing.

Something in me has been waking back up as I read her words.

I'm remembering just how much I want to earn a living from my books and my art.

Yes, exactly.

This is The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd.

Ah, okay.

This one is set in the 19th century American South, and the premise is immediately jarring.

You understand the systemic inequality because you see who gets to sleep on the bed and who has to sleep on the floor.

Oh, that makes so much sense.

And Sue Monk Kidd is doing the exact same thing in The Invention of Wings, just with parallel lives instead of an apartment.

Right.

It reconstructs the emotional truth of a lineage that the official records neglected.

And it pairs so perfectly with the structural themes in the number fourteen book on the list, The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, which has over three hundred and thirty-nine thousand reviews and a four point two six rating.

This takes us back to the nineteenth century South.

Yes.

Yes.

This comes from Sue Monk Kidd, from her memoir-

Sue Monk Kidd.

Yeah, The Dance-

Who's Sue Monk Kidd? Is this like a...

Who is she?

She-

Sue Monk Kidd is best known as the author of The Secret Life of Bees.

And it's just it's not serious, but it's incredibly it's really profound.

Recently I've read a book called, it's here so I can read it to you, Writing Creativity and Soul by Sue Monk Kidd and she wrote The Secret Life of Bees amongst lots of others and that's just a very, very beautiful book and it's really about her life as a writer and the things that she's found hard and sometimes it's sometimes i go back and reread things that she said um i i like uh on writing by stephen king but i probably it's not one that i would keep going back to and actually stephen king i'm sorry to say you know obviously stephen king stephen king he's not he's not my writer i don't think i might not ever have got through a whole stephen king novel can you believe i'm admitting it yeah i shouldn't be saying that but it's the truth

I think it's best to be honest and truthful about these things and kind of suck up and say that we all love him.

I know he's amazing, but it's not for me.

I read her work with a pen and make notes about her writing style.

I just, uh, am, got maybe a chapter more to read in an older book by Sue Monk Kidd that I've also read before, but it's been years ago.

It's called The Invention of Wings.

And it's a true story.