Seeing a Large Cat, The Ape Who Guards the Balance, The Falcon at the Portal, and He Shall Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters (novels from the Amelia Peabody series that everyone in the whole universe should read immediately)
4 Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Speckled Band," "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches," "The Stock-Broker's Clerk," and "The Red-Headed League" (I like "The Speckled Band" best cause it's so exotic and morbid.)
Prologue to Confessio Amantis by John Gower (Absolutely loved it. Must get to the whole thing one day.)
Piers Plowman by William Langland (Meh. Enjoyed seeing the portraits of the 7 deadly sins. Portrait of gluttony made me quit smoking.)
The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African-American Students by Gloria Ladson-Billings (Didn't agree with everything, but found her insight and the insight of the master teachers into the needs of African-American students helpful. Made me want to learn more about African-American English, so I may take a class.)
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein (Nothing need be said about this marvel of the modern world. Even the elves didn't have anything this good.)
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (How the Ingalls family gets settled on their final homestead. Adult Almanzo enters story. Yay!)
about a million articles about composition theory and pedagogy that I don't think any of you care about but were very edifying
Things I am Reading Right Now
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Rebecca by Daphne DuMarier (Wow, this is depressing, but her psychological state is really well written.)
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkein (More perfection surpassing even the works of the men of Westerness.)
Writing About Your Life: A Journey Into the Past by William Zinsser (Half Auto-Biography, half how to write aut0-biography.)
Talking to Tweens: Getting it Right Before It Gets Rocky with Your 8- to 12- Year Old by Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer
The Story of the World:History for the Classical Child: Volume 1: Ancient Times by Susan Wise Bauer
about a million articles about composition theory and pedagogy that I don't think any of you care about but will be very edifying
What I Have on the Shelf to be Read
Between Parent and Child by Haim Ginott
A Yank Back to England: The Prodigal Tourist Returns by Denis Lipman (won this at Dragon Con for answering a Shakespeare question correctly)
A River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters (a NEW Amelia Peabody, and this time she's in Palestine!)
Archaeology by David Hurst Thomas and Robert L. Kelly (My mom took a course in archaeology, and this was her text. Livy and I are both very interested, so I thought this might be a good starting place.)
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
James and the Giant Peach by Roald DahlThe Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan (a new series about the Egyptian gods from the author who gave us Percy Jackson)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (recommended by nerdy librarians at Dragon Con in the Young Adult Track)
More Sherlock Holmes stories (probably chosen at random)
First Test by Tamora Pierce (another YA Dragon Con recommendation)
The Original Mother Goose (with all those old and beautiful illustrations)
about a million articles about composition theory and pedagogy that I don't think any of you care about but will be very edifying
What have you read lately? What's on your shelf?
