Sunday, June 15, 2008

Summer reading

I've finally made a summer reading list.

For Fun:

Traversa: A solo walk across Africa,
from the Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean
by Fran Sandham

One Hundred Years of Solitude.
I read this one while backpacking in the Gila Wilderness.

This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Daniel J. Levitin

Cotton Patch Parables of Liberation
Clarence Jordan and Bill Lane Doulos

Community related reading and rereading:

From Brokenness to Community
essays by Jean Vanier of the L'Arche community

Walden Two
by B.F. Skinner
A novel describing an almost utopic intentional community.
This was required reading for a psychology class I took in high school.

Simple Living
by Jose Hobday
Sister Jose Hobday is a Franciscan sister who I knew growing up.
This is a wonderful book.

For research for a writing project:

The Book of Tea
by Kakuzo Okakura

Tea: The Drink That Changed the World
by Laura C. Martin

Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire
by Roy Moxham

Tea
by Lydia Gautier

And a couple books by my namesake, Elspeth Huxley.

2 comments:

Kate said...

Tea anyone?
oh yeah, have you ever had nettle tea? its amazing. so is tea with strawberry leaves and mint fresh from the garden.

Laura said...

mmm. I've been drinking a lot of mint tea here, just hot water and mint leaves.

what is your research project about, elspeth?

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