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.
The voices of birds
5 years ago
2 comments:
Tea anyone?
oh yeah, have you ever had nettle tea? its amazing. so is tea with strawberry leaves and mint fresh from the garden.
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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