Reading List

For the South Dakota trip, I bought The Killing of Crazy Horse to read on my IPad because it was related to our travel destination, and because it won The National Book Award. (I have never been disappointed by a book on that list). Even though I didn't finish more than a 100 pages before my daughter, Sasha, and I returned, I did eventually finish the book, and it was worth reading.

After skimming through Mindset and The Penderwicks, I am now reading The Greater Journey mainly because it's a new book by David McCullough and because it has to do with France. When my daughter, Sam, leaves for France in July, I'll be picturing the country described in the book's pages, the memories I have from my own travels in Paris and all the new adventures Sam might have!

Today, I spent some time putting together my own Summer Reading List. Nooooo, I won't read them all, but Phil and I decided to have another Book Club this summer. We usually like the same books so I combed a number of blogs and reviews, and I'll let him pick the actual books we read.

Book List
.Guns, Germs and Steel
.The Master and the Margarita
.HMS Ulysses
.The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
.The History of Danish Dreams
.Norwegian Wood
.Cloud Atlas
.Wiseguy
.Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
.Klondike:The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899
.A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
.A Walk in the Woods
.The Song of the Dodo
.Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
.Georgiana: The Duchess of Devonshire
.The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
.Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science Faith and Love
.Surely, You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
.Harriet Lane: America's First Lady
.Brother to a Dragonfly
.I Married Adventure