Reading: Myra Goldberg's Bee Season

Moving: ...

Listening: NPR

Watching: CNN and ER

Learning: Up to one third of adults in Botswana have HIV. Last I knew, it was under 25% (but over 20%).

9 November 2000: Books

Wheeee! A reader who loves the His Dark Materials books wrote and talked about the books and paint colors. I looked at her books page and have about 90 more books to read. Okay, 25. I'd be dead without hyperbole.

I haven't been maintaining my booklist as well as I'd like, and I know I suck at writing worthwhile comments about what I've read or even keeping track of what I've read, but this woman's put a few more on my list, to be updated Real Soon Now:

• Jill Ker Conway, When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography
• Lillian Gilbreth, As I Remember: An Autobiography
  
• Managing on Her Own: Dr. Lillian Gilbreth and Women's Work in the Somehing something something that my copy & paste cut off,
  Anything about Cheaper by the Dozen is something I want to read
• Stuart Flexner and Anne Soukhanov, Speaking Freely: A guided Tour of American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valley
• Shirley Jackson, Life Among the Savages
• Jessamyn West, To See The Dream
• Valerie Grove Chatto & Windus, Jan, Dear Dodie: the Life of Dodie Smith
  Goodness me how I do love I Capture the Castle
• Mollie Panter-Downs, A Letter from England
• Christina Bjork, The Other Alice
• Leah Hager Cohen, Glass, Paper, Beans
• Galen Cranz, The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design
• Susan Strasser, Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
  Of the previous three I can only say I need to read more nonfiction and these are the fiddly, take a topic and run with it, Smithsonian, social history kind of thing I like.
• Antonia Frasier, The Pleasure of Reading
  I love Antonia Frasier. This ought to be good.
• Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading
• Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris
  These two might already be on my list and if they aren't they should be.
• Leona Rostenberg & Madeleine Stern, Old Books, Rare Friends
• Henry Petroski, The Book on the Book Shelf
  RDC says this could have been an essay but Jessie likes it and I know I'm curious about it. Which reminds me, RDC is now reading The Code Book, which I hereby also add to some list or other.
• Nicholas A. Basbanes, A Gentle Madness
• Alan Powers, Living with Books
• At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
• M. F. K. Fisher, A Life in Letters
  The only books I know I lost when we moved in May were my M.F.K. Fisher. I had had three and now I have one. It befuddles me.
• Benjamin Hoff, The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow
  I own this but I've never got through it. I didn't associate the author with The Tao of Pooh. And I'm still not sure if it's meant to be fiction or autobiography.
• Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
• Gustav Stickley, The Best of Craftsman Homes
  I think this is on my wishlist
• Henry Roth, Call it Sleep