Currently reading - 1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York

Intelligent, inspiring, necessary
 

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"Sowing Seeds in the Desert by Masanobu Fukuoka - Chelsea Green

This revolutionary book presents Fukuoka’s plan to rehabilitate the deserts of the world using natural farming, including practical solutions for feeding a growing human population, rehabilitating damaged landscapes, reversing the spread of desertification, and providing a deep understanding of … read more."

MockingJay--the third book in the The Hunger Games trilogy

Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West 1800-1860 by Anne F. Hyde

This book documents the broad family associations that crossed national and ethnic lines and that, along with the river systems of the trans-Mississippi West, formed the basis for a global trade in furs that had operated for hundreds of years before the land became part of the United States. It shows how the world of river and maritime trade effectively shifted political power away from military and diplomatic circles into the hands of local people, and reveals how, in the 1850's immigrants to these newest regions of the United States violently wrested control from Native and other powers, and how conquest and competing demands for land and resources brought about a volatile frontier culture.

I haven't finished this, but it is fascinating and very well written.

The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context) by Ian Hacking.

Interesting and well written, but I don't love it.

13 1/2 by Nevada Barr, pretty good so far.

Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls.

reading "Witch and Wizard" by James Patterson right now. 65% in and I still don't give a damn about any of the characters. Not a good sign. I think I'm just reading it cause I'm 65% done and I may as well finish it... kinda like a Saturday night date...

Yesterdays reading selections included Edgar Allen Poe's a Tell Tale Heart, and Ralph Waldo Emerson's The American Scholar.

I just love the early American Authors, they have so much passion, so much drive and such eloquence. If today's activists, or even politicians had even an eighth of their skill and determination and grace, the world would be a far different place.

uhm... didn't Poe have a passionate relationship with Opium? lol

Or is that just an urban legend?

i agreeee...i love the selections you're reading......i think there are a good number of people who do have that passion...who want to see progressive change...and who may be helping to make it happen in their own lives or local communities...unfortunately its seldom heard of....especially with this media.....gods i love you....im looking forward to reading with you for years to come...

"There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of land." - Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

betenoire - your quote reminds me...

there's a feature in the Kindle (maybe the nook too?) where you can highlight a certain part of the text and other people can see (as they read on their kindles) what other people have highlighted (it tells you how many people highlighted that text).

It can be very interesting seeing what other people highlight... When reading Dresden Files and Hunger Games I found the highlights to be lines that were beautiful, exceptionally comedic, or impacted the plot of the book... but with witch and wizard - the highlights are nonsensical or I've lost my mind.. one of the two.

"Shes Come Undone" by Wally Lamb....Everyone should read this...Lamb writes from the perspective of a girl-woman...I am convinced he is NOT a bio male !!

Just *finished* the 4th book in the Game of Thrones series, and just started Jane Lynch's memoir, Happy Accidents... I've got a pile of books on my headboard screaming to be read next, but Jane Lynch is a library book, so she wins. :)

I am reading....