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kindle reading list summer 2012

 

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During the season I don’t get as much reading done as I’d like. But during the summer, especially when away at festivals where the day-to-day demands of home life are largely absent, I can really get my reading on. Here’s what awaiting me on my Kindle this summer:

UPDATE: I’ll cross off the selections as I finish reading them.

FICTION

  • Evil Dark – Justin Gustainis
  • Evil Ways – Justin Gustainis
  • Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
  • Death and the Maiden – Gerald Elias
  • Death and Transfiguration – Gerald Elias
  • Room – Emma Donoghue
  • The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Faithful Place – Tana French
  • The Hypnotist – Lars Kepler and Ann Long
  • Big Machine – Victor Lavalle

NON-FICTION

  • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times – Pema Chödrön
  • To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 – Adam Hochschild
  • The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its Impact on Western Civilization – Jim Lacey
  • Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them – Clifford Pickover
  • From Stone to Living Word: Letting the Bible Live Again – Debbie Blue

I’d better get to work, I’ve got a hefty reading list to get through!

7 replies on “kindle reading list summer 2012”

Two “Evils”, two “Deaths”…and eleven more books! Are you seriously going to read them all this summer? If so, you must be a speed reader.

AND, when you finish your list, dip your toothpick propped open eyeballs into robert musil’s “the man without qualities” for some real fun & frivolity!

:)))

the pema chodron book is one that has helped me through some very difficult times. she is a beautiful soul – you can dip in & out of it over the summer &/or read it straight through. NO pie-in-the-sky poppycock from her.

Heather recommended this book to me. She likes to just open to a random page and see how it speaks to her in that moment. You should check out her interview with Bill Moyers – it should be available online.

thanx for this – i just watched the first segment.

i recently toyed with the idea of flying to halifax, renting a car & driving up to gampo abbey for a visit. maybe i will . . .

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