Believe it or not I don’t actually sit on my computers *all day*… I spent a lot of today sitting outside in the back yard (that over looks the Haro Straight and some pretty mountains) reading. So I thought I’d do a nice little list of what I’ve read in the past 3 weeks… that didn’t *have* to be read for school.
Today I finished Watership Down by Richard Adams. Honestly, the only reason I read it is because I’d like to think that the bunnies all over my campus can talk. It’s actually really good. It has a fantastic interpetation of realism… that you wouldn’t think would get portrayed with talking bunnies.
I read Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond last week sometime. All I have to say about this one, is that if you don’t have to read it - don’t. Like, its no Da Vinci Code, but it’s also no 1984. I wish I would have spent that time studying for my classes.
Next up, Natural Capitalism. I dont know what it is with me, I *know* I hate everything about reading and making myself involved in economics, yet not only did I read Natural Capitalism, I also read Freakonomics. I will admit, for economics books, they’re pretty decent… this coming from the girl who bashed her head against her desk during every single grade 12 economics class swearing never again to deal with economics. Ever.
I *finally* got around to reading The Selfish Gene and feel no more enlightened about life. It was really great to read some of Dawkin’s work (I never had before, strangely)… and it had some really really interesting insights and information, but I think I set the bar too high for this one. I expected more. But… it was worth the time to read it.
Chasing Ghosts was probably one of the better one’s I read this month. Majikthise/Lindsay did a post about it, I’ll just repost my comment here, it really holds everything that I thought about the book…
It really was… the best book I read this month.
And finally, I read No Logo by Naomi Klein. I started it about 2 years ago. hahaha… yeah, and finally finished it a couple weeks ago while chilling in a feild with a bunny on campus. (They seriously just hop right up to you. It’s so cute.) It didn’t take me that long because it’s a bad book or anything, it just took me that long because…I forgot about it for about a year, and then again for another year! It’s actually a fairly decent read.
Up for October is War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, Beyond Good and Evil, Century Rain, Gender on Planet Earth, Art of War and How Much Is Enough? Usually I make a list like this (War and Peace is ALWAYS on the list) and 1/2 of them don’t get read, but are replaced by more books that I didn’t intend to read. The security gaurds at Chapters get annoyed with me. I pick up a book and end up standing in the same spot for about 3 hours while I read it… they always ask me to buy it, sit down or leave. hahaha.
**just as a note - the new header will not be staying, i promise.I know its sort of hard on the eyes, and sort of ugly, but… whatever. My brother is supposed to be working on a new one for me, hopefully he actually does that. If not, my usual image maker got into a motorcycle accident, so I’ll be waiting for quite some time. (he’s fine, a couple broken ribs and a few stitches on the head, nothing too serious, but he’s…in bed and doesn’t plan on moving for a while.)
