Okay, if 52 books in 52 weeks is not enough... here is Spring Reading Thing! This contest asks you to offer a list of books to read/finish between March 20th and June 2oth so I guess I had better getting snapping! My list (with links to Amazon in case you want a more complete description):
On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children by Tracy L. Cross, Ph.D.
Advice on Dying and Living a Better Life by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama
Trojan Horses: Saving the Classics from the Conservatives by Page Dubois
Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life by Adam Gopnik
A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart
The Way of Herodotus: Travels with the Man who invented History by Justin Marozzi
Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life by Abbott Christopher Jamison
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
Educating your gifted child by Vicki Caruana
Magic: The Untold Story of U.S. Intelligence and the Evacuation of Japanese Residents from the West Coast during WWII by David Lowman
The Last Knight by Norman F. Cantor
The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler
Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History by Peter D. Ward
Nothing to do, nowhere to go: Waking up to who you are by Thit Nhat Hanh
From First Draft to Finished Novel by Karen S. Weisner
The Great Tradition Edited by Richard M. Gamble
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