This is my complete February Reading List - sorry to post so late. Check out my March Reading List which I plan to post by March 8th.
· New Release : The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, by Reif Larsen; Penguin Press 2009. What better way to find my direction than by reading a book about a boy cartographer?
· Classic: Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift; The Easton Press, 1976. This was the only book that T.S.’s great-great-great grandfather read other than the bible.
· Nonfiction: You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, by Katherine Harmon, Princeton Architectural Press, October 1, 2003. T.S. mapped his personal geographies from how to climb a mountain to shake hands with God, to the flow of dinner conversation at home, to his top-nine favorite movies and their thematic relationships. A great way to discover my own personal geography.
· Juvenile: S is for Smithsonian: American’s Museum Alphabet, by Marie and Roland Smith, Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen; Sleeping Bear Press, 2010. T.S. is going to the Smithsonian to receive the Baird Award. I thought this alphabet book would be too easy for my seven- and nine-year olds, but I soon found that even I had a lot to learn from the informative text. Fascinating stuff.
· Self-improvement: Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, by Peter Turchi; Trinity University
