Unknown Island North: Spring Reading List 2010

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.

Monday, June 28, 2010

Spring Reading List 2010

The City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau ***

The Weight of Glory, C.S. Lewis ****

The Wayfarer Redemption, Sara Douglass ***

Enchanter, Sara Douglas ****

Down the Rabbit Hole, Peter Abrahams ***

Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris ***

Hungry Moon, Ramsey Campbell ***

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, Paul Krugman ***

Black House, Stephen King and Peter Straub ***

Julia, Peter Straub ****

Feasting on Raw Foods, Charles Gerras, ed. ****

Starman, Sara Douglass ****

Freaks: Alive on the Inside!, Annette Curtis Klause ***

Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, Joseph E. Stiglitz ****

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, Maya Angelou ****

Museum Pieces, Elizabeth Tallent *****

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald ****

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, Barbara Ehrenreich ****

The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler ****

Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir, Daniel Tammet ***

Bamboo & Butterflies, Joan D. Criddle ***

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. *****

Club Dead, Charlaine Harris ***

If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit, Brenda Ueland ****

Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting, 3rd edition, Syd Field ***

Dead to the World, Charlaine Harris ***

Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell ***

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell ***

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