Unknown Island North: Fall Reading List 2009

Unknown Island North

"Unknown Island North" is culled from Annie Dillard's 1977 "Holy the Firm". A metaphor for a new thought on the horizon, it is "a new island, a new wrinkle, the deepening of wonder." Dillard finds various names for it as she sketches this new thing onto her drawing of the Puget Sound islands visible from her window. I suppose here, in my own way, I am seeking to name the things that most capture my attention as I look out at the world from my perspective. What follows is a record of what I see.

About Me

Name: Lira

Location: Siskiyou County, California

Reclusive twenty-something. Married for seven years now to an honest-to-God Prince Charming. Mischievous Christian. Vegan with raw vegan aspirations. Fond of black lace. Cabin-dweller, soon-to-be little-house-in-the-woods-dweller. Constantly online: might as well be physically plugged in to the power outlet and the local server. Holds a BA in Religion, and a Raw Vegan Associate Chef & Instructor certification. Has worked in child care, education, special education, youth ministry, and children's ministry over the past fourteen years. Reads books like Cookie Monster eats cookies. Writer, artist, and musician. Laboriously learning how to dance. Utter scatterbrain. Adores Lewis Carroll's Alice in all her various incarnations. World just gets curiouser and curiouser every day.

Sunday, January 03, 2010

Fall Reading List 2009

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling **

Vampire Hunter D: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea, Part One, Hideyuki Kikuchi ***

Bag of Bones, Stephen King ****

Archangel, Paul Watkins ****

It, Stephen King *****

Maximum Ride: School's Out--Forever, James Patterson ****

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling ****

The 10-Minute Total Body Breakthrough: Get in the Best Shape of Your Life with 4.3.2.1 Interval Training!, Sean Foy with Nellie Sabin and Mike Smolkinski ****

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel, Michio Kaku ****

Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, James Patterson ***

All Rivers Flow to the Sea, Alison McGhee ***

The Halloween Tree, Ray Bradbury ***

Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris ***

Small Wonder: Essays, Barbara Kingsolver *****

Dust, Elizabeth Bear ****

The Green Parent: A Kid-Friendly Guide to Earth-Friendly Living, Jenn Savedge ***

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, 6th ed., William Zinsser ****

The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, David A. Kessler ****

The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman *****

Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko *****

The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, Natalie Angier ***

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