Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath
I'm about two-three weeks behind on my subscription of the Economist.
Then, off to hit the library for a cache of books.
BTW, I finished reading LONESOME DOVE ~1 month ago. It is indeed a modern classic. Good stuff!
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The true harvest of my life is intangible...a little stardust caught,a portion of the rainbow I have clutched -Thoreau
'Joseph Banks, A Life' by Patrick O'Brian
The English language has had no better craftsman than O'Brian.
Teej
"[ATers] represent three percent of our use and about twenty percent of our effort," retired Baxter Park Director Jensen Bissell.
The Ordinary Adventurer
I'm actually re-reading The Ordinary Adventurer by Jan (LiteShoe) Leitschuh. A wonderfully written account of her Long Trail end-to-end which preceeded her AT thru hike.
Crime and Punishment
on my reading queue: "Anansi Boys" by Neil Gaiman, and "Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac. i was supposed to read the Kerouac on the trail this season but it never made it into a maildrop. not that i had time for much reading ... too busy pickin' banjo.
"when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." --HST
Uncle Silly VA->VT '05, VT->ME '07, VA->GA ??
I just finished "How to talk to a Liberal (if you must)" by Ann Coulter.
With my newly gained knowledge, I will be posting much more on WhiteBlaze.
nice....Originally Posted by FatMan
With my newly gained knowledge, I will be posting much more on WhiteBlaze.
Tuesdays with Morrie, John Muir Trail - the essential guide to hiking America's most famous trail, and Killer Dreams by Iris Johansen
Confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole, one of the funniest books ever, also a biography of Bob Marley, very good too.
Roberts rules of order and PCT guidebook in S. California. Gotta have balance don't you know!
Jojo Smiley :)
Savor the Moments!
Grudam's Systematic Theology!
How's that for light entertainment reading?
Worldwalk; surprisingly well written for a travel/adventure book.
That's the Stephen Newman book? I loved Worldwalk. I'm currently reading another one in the same vein: Karl Bushby's first book, "Giant Steps", telling his adventures walking from the tip of South America to Alaska. I imagine the second book, still to come, will account for his trip across the Bering Sea on an ice floe and across Siberia. I've followed him on his website for several years now. I am enjoying this book, but I liked the Newman books better. Steve was a nicer man, with a deeper love for people. He made me laugh and made me cry. Bushby is funny in his own way and has some amazing adventures, but I just don't like him as a person as much as I liked Newman. I've met both of them and would love to do what they did, but know I probably never will. (Getting robbed and arrested is bad enough when you're a young male - as a middle aged female, I don't think I would handle either very well.)
Yeah, Worldwalk by Stephan Newman. He does seem like quite a nice guy now that I think about it.
I read a similar book about two brothers who started to walk around the world with a donkey and dog in the 70's, one made it, but like the one by Stephan Newman much more.
The one person who I'd love to see write write a book would be Heinz Stucke; as long as he has been on the road he has some tales to tell.
I found a website once upon a time from someone similar to Stucke, only he walked in every country, rather than bicycled. I wish I could do something like that. Our American long distance trails are so tame compared to the world wanderers.
Go for it. Even if it only last a year or two, it'll be amazing.
A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill. Pretty decent memoir, so far.
Next is either What is What by Dave Eggers or that Mayflower book.
Anything's within walking distance if you've got the time.
GA-ME 03, LT 04/06, PCT 07'
march to the sea- david weber and john ringo.
future sci-fi, a large group of marines(bodyguards for a bratty prince) being stranded on a planet with intelligent life forms but with a much lower technology level than our own at that time. and having to adjust to the circumstances, to make it off.
He who dies with the most toys, still dies.
Just finished THE PERFECT STORM
in the middle of TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD...for like the 3rd read through...Atticus is my hero
and just yesterday bought THE LIFE OF PI, heard so much about it, thought I would give it a read through.
Thats one great thing about hiking, you can read so much!
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