Reading List

While I have been researching ways to redo this blog, I quit posting... but I've decided to keep going. I'll give it an overhaul this summer, when I have more time.

In the meantime, I think I will jump back in by posting my current reading list. There are a lot of books here, but it includes some (like the physics and math books!) that are taking me a very long time to read. I tend to read a chapter of those and let the concepts soak in for a month or so.

Art books are underrepresented here. The list would grow too long. I'm not including all of the ones I pull out as I work.

In no particular order, here goes!:

Wizards Aliens and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction, by Charles L. Adler; I love this book!!! It is taking me a very long time to read- there are a lot of equations. But the concepts are fascinating, and I think it will be an invaluable writing resource. My teens are enjoying the bits I am passing along to them, too.

Cover to Cover (20th Ann. Ed.) by Shereen LaPlantz; this is a new purchase. I can't wait to dive in.

The Art of Slow Writing by Louise DeSalvo; do I really need this encouragement???!!!  :)  I am so grateful to know that I am not alone in taking a very long time with writing projects. This is a nice counterbalance to the book by Isaac Asimov I recently read, in which he said you can write well, or prolifically, but probably not both.

Living Things by Anne Porter (again...)

Splitting An Order by Ted Kooser; this is another new favorite

As You Like It by William Shakespeare; because I have to have a Shakespeare play going at all times!

Rendevous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke; I am having a hard time getting into this one. I think it is the *tiny* paperback print and yellowing paper that is giving me problems.

Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World by Jane Hirshfield; library selection; there is a good chapter on Basho. Still reading through the rest.

National Geographic's Backyard Guide to the Night Sky; there is a nice brief section on each constellation's mythology.

Project Origami: Activities for Exploring Mathematics by Thomas Hull; thank heavens for interlibrary loan! This book is wonderful. I made the five intersecting tetrahedra model, and it is stunning. Math would have been my favorite subject in school if I had been introduced to this.