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A Telling Cliche: The Desert Aisle
So I'll start here: my books, the things that I covet most, to the extent that there are things that I covet. (Okay, so I do covet chocolate, and cherry lifesavers, and maybe sushi ... maybe a lot, but I'm not about to let that derail my train of thought, because that's another list, and this is not.)
The books. From the very earliest moments in our lives as explorers, they are our portals. They are our gateway to the world, and to the universe, and to the delicious nooks and crannies of our very own soul. They are a collective footprint for who we are, and what we believe, and how comitted we may be to expanding our horizons through sometimes disparate points of view. They allow us to change our world to something grand and worth having at times when it feels it is not. They challenge us to be daring, and brave, and hungry. They tickle long, sweet veins of curiousity and exquisite, 3-day-long thoughts that plant themselves like tendrils in the fertile soil of our conscience and soul.
So here's my window. It's a small place to start, but full of rich and daring adventures that I've completely loved. Perhaps they will move you too ...
Currently Reading:
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
- Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (have been trying to read if for a year)
On-Deck:
- Click here for a list of the books I'm about to dive into next, and the reason why:
Recently Read:
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- Good Grief by Lolly Winston
- A Rhinestone Button by Gail Anderson-Dargatz (not worth the painful read)
- Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (brilliant)
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (brilliant)
- Three Junes by Julia Glass (brilliant)
- Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan
- Hacker Cracker by Ejovi Nuwere (a gift from Andrew Rasiej, the next Mayor of New York ;^)
Next Read:
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (because apparently everybody's read it but me ...)
The Proverbial 'Stranded-on-a-Desert-Aisle' Reads:
- Unleashing the Idea Virus (Seth Godin)
- The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming Our Imagination (Mark Pesce)
- The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual (Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searles and David Weinberger)
- An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life (the Dalai Lama)
- 'Tis: A Memoir (Frank McCourt)
- Drinking the Rain (Alix Kates Schulman)
- A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
- The Stranger (Albert Camus)
- Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
- Dubliners (James Joyce}
- The Misfits: And Other Stories (Arthur Miller)
- Hocus Pocus (Kurt Vonnegut)
- Thriving on Chaos (Tom Peters)
- Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want (Barbara Sher)
- Principle Centered Leadership (Dr. Stephen Covey)
- The Mentor's Spirit: Life Lessons on Leadership and the Art of Encouragement (Marsha Sinetar)
- The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People (Carol Eikleberry)
- A Guide for Grown-ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Homesick: A Memoir (Sela Ward)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
- The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
- The Cure for Death by Lightning (Gail Anderson-Dargatz)
- Cider House Rules (John Irving)
- Shipping News (Annie Proulx)
- She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
- Where the Heart Is (Billie Letts)
- The Mermaids Singing (Lisa Carey)
- Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)
- Icy Sparks (Gwen Hyman Rubio)
- Euell Gibbons' Handbook of Edible Wild Plants
- Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living (Annie Berthold-Bond)
- What Kids Need to Succeed (Dr. Peter Benson)
- The Out-Of-Sync Child Has Fun: Activities for Kids With Sensory Integration Dysfunction (Carol Stock Kranowitz)
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Malcolm Gladwell)
- Emotional Intelligence (Daniel Goleman)
- The Essential Drucker: In One Volume the Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management
- The Jack Kerouac Collection
- Oh, the Places You'll Go! (Dr. Seuss)
- Simple Pleasures (Susannah Seton)
- The Search for the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie (Gwen Steege)
Page name: Sue's Book List
Last editor: Sue Braiden (CCAL30) (2046)
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:57:40 PDT
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