Summer Reading List

                           
                               Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.


  In the last month I have given away over 50 books, yet I still have six bookshelves that are overflowing with books! I gave away many English textbooks that I got for free, along with about 25 books with religious themes.




Here is what  I am currently reading, or plan on reading in the next few months:


Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life and Everything in Between by Theresa Brown, R.N.


* The author has a Ph.D. in English, and taught writing at Tufts University
   for three years, before she went back to school for her BSN. Teaching, she 
   says, "held little personal meaning for her."


Some Assembly Required:A Journal of My Son's First Son by Anne Lamott


  * I've read many of Lamott's other  nonfiction books-Operating Instructions-
    about raising her newborn son Sam as a single mother.
    I also really like Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. I used
    this book with several of my writing classes when I taught English.


Priestblock 25487: A Memoir of Dachau by Father Jean Bernard


* This is a fascinating first person account of the experiences and conditions
   of this concentration camp in 1941-1942. 


As I Lay Dying: Meditiations Upon Returning-On Facing Death and Living Again
by Rev. Richard John Neuhaus


* This is the story of one person's encounter with death, and what he learned. 
   "Neuhaus draws on philosophy, psychology, scienc, poetry, literature and
    theology to examine his journey back to life."


The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson


* I am interested in this book because it is well written historical fiction, that 
   relates to a paternal relative who was an architect who worked on the 
   World's Congress Auxiliary Building for the World's Columbian Exposition
   in 1893 in Chicago.


The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen


* I found this book while at a used bookstore in Mendocino. It came highly
   recommended.


My Life in France by Julia Child


* I started reading this book while on a train from the small town of Beauvais
   (one hour north of Paris), to Paris. That was 2 years ago! 
   It is delightful, as you become charmed by Julia and the development
   and education she went through to become a top notch chef.


Appetite For Life by Noel Riley Fitch


* For the reader who wants a much more detailed autobiography of Julia Child 
   than My Life in France provides.


As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis Devoto edited by Joan Reardon


* A must read for Julia Child fans!