Real Academics Book Club

Summer 2025 Book:

• Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones

  • Can be purchased through Amazon here (Kindle, paperback, or hardcover): https://a.co/d/613KAjM

• The discussion schedule is as follows (read the chapters BEFORE the date listed):

  • June 21 -  Intro -- Power of Detail

  • July 5 -  Baking a Cake -- One Plus One Equals a Mercedes Benz

  • July 19 - Be an Animal -- Spontaneous Writing Booths

  • August 2 - A Sensation of Space -- I Don't Want to Die

Fall 2025 Book:

• Goodson and Huerta's Keep Writing: 101 Strategies for Academic Writers

  • Can be purchased through Amazon here (Kindle or paperback): https://a.co/d/5PidAxu

• The discussion schedule is as follows (read the chapters BEFORE the date listed). For this book, read, try a strategy and share!

  • Aug 16 -  Sections 1 and 2

  • Sept 6 -  Sections 3 and 4

  • Sept 20 - Sections 5 and 6

  • Oct 4 - Sections 7 and 8

  • Oct 18 - Sections 9 and 10

  • Nov 1 - Sections 11 and 12

  • Nov 15 - Sections 13 and 14