Something I Wish I Were Better at Doing

This week's Long & Short Reviews prompt asks reviewers what we wish we were better at doing.

I wish I were a better writer. I wish I'd written a brilliant nonfiction book in time for my mother to go to the beach with friends in Florida and wail happily about her daughter's book being too heavy, in every sense of the word, for beach reading.

Ten books I wish I'd been given the ability to write anything like:

Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle

Wendell Berry, What Are People For

Kathleen Desmaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac 

Suzette Haden Elgin, The Last Word: On the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense

Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline

Laura Ingraham, The Hillary Trap 

C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

Angela Nissel, The Broke Diaries

Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace

Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker