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Welcome to my reading page.

In school I had a difficult time reading and I did not read for pleasure

until after graduating from college.  Once the world of literature was

open to me I read a great deal.  Below you will find a short list of some

of my favorite books and authors.

Novels

The Education of Little Tree - Forest Carter

Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway

Kite Runner

The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver

Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver

Desert Solitaire - Edward Abby

Inspirational

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

The Missing Link - Sydney Banks

Science Fiction

Ender's Game  and virtually everything written by - Orson Scott Card

Education

The Power of Their Ideas- Deborah Meiers

One Kid at a Time - Eliot Levine

A Different Kind of Teacher - John Taylor Gatto

Horace's Dream - Ted Sizer

Science

The Star Thrower and virtually everything written by - Loren Eisley

Hens' Teeth and Horses' Tails and virtually everything written by - Stephen Jay Gould

 

 

 

 

 

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