School Daze
School has returned and I'm slapping the dust off that part of my brain that handles the tough questions (aka: fudging, skimming, and looking interested). Actually, I'm really excited about this semester because my schedule is great, I'm working with good people, helping with great projects, and generally having a good start. Brooklynne seems to be off to a great start as well. As soon as I have more specifics about what we are doing I'll post it here. In the meantime, if there are any history types reading this, give me a top ten list of your favorite scholarly works (I'm having trouble compiling a reading list). All others... how about a top ten fictional works for Brooklynne? Happy posting!
Top 10 Books by or about child-star-turned-teen-star-turned-balding-film-director, Ron Howard:
1. Ron Howard: Child Star & Hollywood Director
2. Ron Howard (Zannos)
3. A Search for Meaning
4. Ron Howard: From Mayberry to the Moon...and Beyond
5. Ron Howard (Marcovitz)
6. The Making of Far and Away
7. Ron Howard (Gray)
8. Cotton Candy
9. Juliet Hopkins: "Florence Nightingale of the South"
10. Learn to Play Country Piano
He's not balding. He's bald.
Miles - not sure this counts, but it is historical fiction for you -- Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. I am now reading another book of his, Tides of War. Gates of Fire was AWESOME, about the Battle of Thermopalye. Also, Dean Smith, A Coach's Life and Bob Knight, A Season on the Brink.
For Brooklyne:
Roots
Cold Mountain
Brother Karamazov, Dostoyevsky
My Losing Season, Pat Conroy
If I think of more, I will let you know.
Thought of a couple more -- there is a great science fiction series (I know, I know science fiction doesn't sound too great to some people) called the Ender Series. The first is called Ender's Game, and it is awesome, and then comes, I think, Speaker For the Dead, which made me cry with its insights into our longing for community and wholeness. The author is Orson Scott Card, and he is mormon, so there are some nice moral themes in the book, but not anything you can hang your hat on too much. Very good reading.
Then if you like non-fiction there's the unauthorized biography: "Scandalous: The Life and Times of Marshall Benbow."
That book has lots of hot and sexy scenes in it(especially the memoirs of old IV retreats) and is not suitable for readers under the age of 35.
Does that mean you're authorizing it?