2014 Summer Reading List
Summer
Reading List
1.
Nature: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Walking: Henry David Thoreau
Essays by two of Transcendentalism's
greatest minds.
2.
Concord
A collection of essays, not just about
3.
Endymion: John Keats
4.
The Celtic Twilight and a Selection of Early poems: W.B. Yeats
A
volume of essays on the nature of the faerie realm within Irish culture, as well
as poetry.
5.
Madame Curie: A Biography: Eve Curie
6.
The Book About Blanche and Marie: A Novel: Per Olov Enquist
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a work of fiction. Blanche Wittman was a real person, and she really was Marie
Curie's lab assistant. Unfortunately, there is apparently no biography of
Blanche Wittman, though Enquest does write his novel from historical sources
(letters, notes, diaries, etc.).
7.
A Scented Palace
Looks fairly
self-explanatory.
8.
The El
Dorado
I first met Vesper Holly
when I was ten years old and she was seventeen. I loved the four books I read.
(I still own The Illyrian Adventure and The Drakenburg Adventure {1 and 3,
respectively}) I'm thirty-seven, she's still seventeen, but I'm looking forward
to hanging out with Vesper again just the same. Hopefully we won't get into too
much trouble.
9.
The Jedera Adventure: Lloyd Alexander
10.
The Philadelphia
11.
The Xanadu Adventure: Lloyd Alexander
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12.
Swimming With Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals: Anne
Collet
13.
Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food and Flavor: Laura
Esquivel
The author of the
incredible Like Water for Chocolate
gives us nonfiction autobiographical essays? Yes, please.
14.
A Darkness Forged in Fire (1): Chris Evans
A new-to-me fantasy epic.
Oh, we are off on adventures this summer. (My seventeen year old already has
his eye on this one.)
15.
The Light of Burning Shadows (2): Chris Evans
16.
Ashes of a Black Frost (3): Chris Evans
17.
Composing a Life: Mary Catherine Bateson
Cultural
Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson explores how five women have learned to
shape their lives around unforeseen and unplanned circumstances, many
of which most American women face today.
This book is about life as an
improvisatory art, about the ways we combine familiar and unfamiliar components
in response to new situations, following an underlying grammar and an evolving
aesthetic.
Bateson sees discontinuities and interruptions in life, such as raising children, career changes, and divorce, as creative material rather than disruption, and she seeks to create a unifying thread of all life experience.
Just as change stimulates us
to look for more abstract constancies, so the individual effort to compose a
life, framed by birth and death and carefully pieced together from disparate
elements, becomes a statement on the unity of living. These works of art, still
incomplete, are parables in process, the living metaphors with which we
describe the world. (Taken from The Blue Bookcase: http://thebluebookcase.blogspot.com)
18.
Laughter, Tears, Silence: Expressive Meditations to Calm Your Mind and Open
Your Heart: Pragito Dove
Again, fairly self-explanatory. Still working
my way into a meditation practice. This looks like it will complement the books
I already own.
19.
The Tempest: William Shakespeare
20.
Antony
Billy.
21.
Sophie's World: Jostein Gaarder
This is my daughter's book.
It is a Young Adult intro to philosophy. Philosophy is a HUGE subject. I'll be
smart and start small.
22. Thomas Jefferson's Garden book, 1766-1824, with
relevant extracts from his other writings: Thomas Jefferson, annotated by Edwin
Morris Betts
I don't know if I'll get to
this one before summer's over. I have never been to
I lost 4 of my images; I'll try to remedy this soon. All images found on Google.
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