"The Listening Path: The Creative Art of Attention" by Julia Cameron is a powerful and thought-provoking book that delves into the importance of listening in the creative process. Cameron, best known for her bestselling book "The Artist's Way," skillfully guides readers through exercises and meditations designed to help them tap into their inner creativity and develop their ability to listen deeply.

One of the strengths of this book is Cameron's ability to make complex concepts accessible to readers of all levels. She uses personal anecdotes and relatable examples to illustrate her points, making the book easy to understand and follow. The exercises and meditations included in the book are practical and easy to incorporate into daily life.

The book also addresses the connection between listening and the creative process, making a strong case for why listening is essential to any artistic endeavor. Cameron argues that we can access our inner wisdom by listening deeply and tapping into creative inspiration.

Overall, "The Listening Path" is valuable to any writer or artist's library. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to tap into their inner creativity and take their artistic endeavors to the next level.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is currently on a journey of growing present moment awareness to your environment, to the relationships present in your life, and finally to that quieter, inner voice.

This book seemed pretty redundant if you have read her previous works. I did not particularly find much new information here and was pretty bored of the book fairly quickly.

The Listening Path by Julia Cameron is a non-fiction to explore how to deepen your listening in your own life and with others. This book touches on many of the same topics from The Artist's Way such as the importance of writing daily, taking silent walks, and enjoying nature or new experiences. I appreciate that this book focuses on practical actions for the reader to take so tangible things can be done, rather than just reading and forgetting about it. Compared to the previous book, this book has exercises that are more heavily focused on listening activities such as keeping a soundtrack log for your life and writing out what you "hear" from your heart. I found these exercises and the reflection questions to be thoughtful and unique that I have not heard elsewhere. If you are focused on increasing your awareness and want to practice listening more to yourself than external things, I would recommend this book for you.

Many thanks to the publisher St. Martin's Press Essentials and Netgalley for the ARC in return for an honest review.

Author Julia Cameron's books on nurturing creativity have been a staple for decades and have indeed become a cottage industry. Rather than a "how to" on the arts, the books and other media in this series are more meditations on living life in a way that promotes artistic expression. Cameron's advice is mostly practical (writing in the morning at the same time everyday, taking daily walks, treating yourself to a new experience each week, etc.) While this newest book emphasizes listening and includes some new anecdotes from Cameron's life, I don't know that fans need to purchase this new entry into the Artist's Way series. If you have read Cameron's other works, especially the seminal The Artist's Way, you are aware of much of the advice this book offers.

Verdict: A potentially helpful read for those just discovering author Julia Cameron, but for others, pick this one up from your local public library.

Full Disclosure--NetGalley and the publisher provided me with a digital ARC of this book. This is my honest review.