I'm becoming more and more of a book nerd, as evidenced by my previous posts, in which I got way too excited about seeing a favorite author on a poster and a favorite book in a show. The nerdiness I repressed for years is coming back in full force. Tonight I made a list of books I want to read (not like "Want to read because I should, so as to make me a more well-rounded individual" but "Ooh! That book sounds great! I want to read that!") and good lord it's a long list. Lately I've only been reading non-fiction, which just adds to my nerdy stigma. As I stock up my list, does anyone have any book suggestions? I'm open for ideas.
Books on Lust List:
Queen of Bohemia: The Life of Louise Bryant, by Mary Dearburn
The Virgin of Bennington by Kathleen Norris
Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World, by Sarah Vowell
Barrel Fever by Dave Sedaris
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas
Gathering Moss by Robin Kimmerer (yeah, that's the ESF prof on NYT list!)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Searching for God Knows What by Don Miller
A Song to Sing, a Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice by Don and Emily Sailers
(this book is also interesting b/c it is written by the father/daughter duo of Prof. Sailers, a Methodist Minister and prominant professor at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, and Emily Sailers, half of the Indigo Girls. They are doing a week-long seminar at the National Cathedral College in May but it costs too much for me to go. It's an amazing topic regardless of who teaches it)
And there's a bunch more but I'm just embarassing myself now.
Also, February 22 is Edna St.Vincent Millay's birthday. Happy 113th Edna, if you hadn't died in 1950, this would have been quite an event. Go you.
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