Reading List

Currently Reading

• Ethics for a New millennium - by the Dalai Lama who excels at talking to a non-religious and non-spiritual audience about ethics and happiness
  
• Leaving Home - by Garrison Keillor
  
• Leaning into the Wind - a collection of short stories by women of the West
  

By the Bed

• Moral Politics - the extended version of Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff
  
• Letters to a Young Contrarian - This requires a dictionary!

Just Finished

• The Bonesetter's Daughter - by Amy Tan. This was the first book of Amy's that I've read. It took a few chapters to get into it, after which I proceeded to devour it in the course of 48 hours. It's a heart-wrenching story of mothers and daughters, which is ultimately hopeful.
  
• Better Off - a book about a couple who go to live in a community without machines to see if "labor-saving devices" really save labor. This was an Excellent book. It reminded me of forgotten dreams of homesteading. More importantly, it showed me that living a simple life can happen in a city too. After leaving the farming community, they moved to a small town in Missouri and then to an artsy neighborhood in downtown St. Louis, while still living via a cottage industry.
  
• Time Off! The Upside to Downside - a great practical guide to taking and enjoying lots of time off! An inspiration, truly. ;-)
  
• La'Affair - about a young Palo Alton who made it mega-rich before the bubble burst and went to France to "better" herself. Exasperating.
  
• Dreaded Broccoli - awesome cookbook! make mostly vegetarian cooking sound easy and delicious.
  

On the Shelf

• This is Burning Man
  
• The Fabulous Sylvester
  
• The Soul of Money
  
• The Chalice and the Blade
  
• Home Buying for Dummies

Favorites

• Succulent Wild Women, by Sark
  
• The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
  
• The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, by Sue Monk Kidd
  
• A Country Year, by Sue Hubbell
  
• Time Enough for Love, by Robert Heinlein

Not on my Shelf Yet

• A Year by the Sea
  
• From Good to Great
  
• When God was a Woman
  
• The Alphabet vs. the Goddess
  
• Sex, Time and Power
  
• San Francisco: Musical History
  
• A Woman's Book of Life
  
• Salmon Without Rivers
  
• Homebuyer's Survival Guide
  
• How to Buy a House in California
  
• The 106 Common Mistakes Homebuyers Make (and how to avoid them)