Category: Summer Reading 2019

I write this post with a chill in the air. I have no clue how many books I read, but it was fun. Thanks for being here! Join us during Open Arts, where we explore the arts generally until we meet again for our Winter Reading Session. Until soon, A

This book, which is available to read online, was recommended to our incoming new docent training class last year. Now, a year later, I have finished reading it at last. This book is directed to those who manage public institutions and programs. Which of them does not wish to be relevant to as many people

I finished this novel by the poet, Ocean Vuong, yesterday evening. It’s styled as a communication addressed to the narrator’s mother, and the reader can rely on the pronoun “you” as referring to her, a woman born in Vietnam during the war. This is not solely a mother/son story, however. Other personal relationships of the

Adam Frank is an astrophysicist who focuses on the cosmos.  His book is a fascinating story of how humankind has experienced time looking back over 40,000 years of history.  It is an ambitious project that sent my mind traveling in countless directions.  He relates our everyday experience of time over the ages to our continuous

RED MOON and NEW YORK 2140 Here is what I love about Kim Stanley Robinson – his books are smart, really smart. In both of these books he weaves science, politics, economics, culture, relationships, history, deeply into the stories. Some science fiction is based on imagination, some on research. The knowledge base he shares in

I have been listening to this book in my car. Yesterday’s trip to Fort Worth (to see the Kimbell Museum’s exhibition of Monet’s late work) brought me to the end of Circe. As a student of Latin in junior and senior high school, and someone who took “Greek and Roman Mythology” as an elective in

At the library we receive all sorts of interesting donations and in the process of summer cleaning, I picked up a set of TIME-LIFE books with the overarching title, Mysteries of the Unknown. I have one on my desk called “Spirit Summonings” and have perused others such as “Witchcraft” and “Phantom Encounters”. These books are a

I have just, really just, begun this book and am so knocked out that I am having a difficult time getting through the first chapter, which acts as a sort of introduction. This book is about landscape and language, how each shapes the other. And how this lexical specificity can in turn shape our understanding