A Love Poesie for Benjamin Franklin

*Benny-boy, how I love thee, for you created the public library!*

Recent Reads (All of which I have loved and checked out from the San Francisco Public Library!)

Autobiography, Biography, and/or Travel Memoir

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X (as told to Alex Haley)

• Kim Sunee's Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home—drool-worthy food descriptions (and recipes!) alongside a heart-touching autobiography.

• Susan Jane Gilman's Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven

• Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic--The first graphic novel that I've read and enjoyed.  Very literate, intellectual, and sad and hilarious all at once.

• Stacey O'Brien's Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love story of an Owl and His Girl—My gawd, I love owls!

• Asne Seierstad's The Bookseller of Kabul

• Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking—Knee-slappingly funny.

 

History/Politics

• Katherine Powell Cohen's Images of America: San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury—My beleoved neighborhood!  Fantastic, brief historical overview from the 1880's to 2008 with photograph's gracing each page.

 

About Public Libraries and the Love of Reading

• Don Borchert's Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library

• Emma Walton Hamilton's Raising Bookworms: Getting Kids Reading for Pleasure and Empowerment

• Vicki Myron's Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

Fiction

• Andrew Sean Greer's The Story of a Marriage

• Robert Charles Wilson's Darwinia: A Novel of a Very Different Twentieth Century

 

Currently Reading

• Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

• Donna Farhi's Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living

• Carol Off's Bitter Chocolate: The Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

 

Currently Browsing (i.e. not reading every single page)

• Mothisa Yamakage's The Essence of Shinto: Japan's Spiritual Heart

• Terence Conran's The Chef's Garden: Fresh Produce from Small Spaces

• Swami Vishnu-Devanda's The Complete Book of Illustrated Yoga

 

Future Reads

• Hooman Majd's The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran

• James Dalessandro's 1906: A Novel (about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake)

Comments

[Carrie K]

Three cheers for Ben Franklin!!

So are you participating in the Library Challenge? I came to it really late myself but it's so me.