summer reading

While many dreaded summer reading during gradeschool, middle school, and high school- i loved it. I love to learn about the world, all of the interesting people, and their lives similar or so different that they are unimaginable, to experience things I have yet or will never experience, to expand knowledge.

And now...in college...with no more required summer reading...I venture onto my list to read books from recommendation, classes, reviews I've read, those I picked up while scowering a bookstore (hopefully a much beloved old musty used bookstore), or those that have crossed my path in any given way and spurred curiosity.

And thus, my current reads from this summer...which I do hope I get the chance to expand upon as we still have a little over a month. I'm not sure why I'm writing this entry other than I'm thinking of starting a record of the books I read and love for my future library. And maybe despite the laziness of summer, I can challenge you all to love to learn...maybe?

This is an amazing book for you public health/polisci types- actually for everyone I know. As unnerving and action stimulating as Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. This is the story "one man's mission to promote peace...one school at a time". Greg Mortenson builds schools in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Picked this one up at a random bookstore that sells books at atrociously cheap prices. Mainly just about it because it was $1. Not extremely far into it, but it's about 2 girls that are conjoined twins. Quick read, curiously interesting, pretty well written, and a wonderful little story.

Doing this study with a group of "young women" from my parent's church. It's about the names of the Lord, their roots, and their meanings both literally and in our lives. It's great.

This is an old classic which I haven't picked up in years and never read fully, though what I read I always loved. And so here it is on my summer list to get read this summer. By far one of the most well known devotional books. It is great- period- no matter where you are in your walk. I post this version because I love the New King James Version.

I love reading books on personal experiences of historical events. This is about boys from a small town Bedford, VA, which is actually about 45 minutes from where I used to live in VA and several of my friends from my church lived in that town. Heartwrenching stories of a group of young men that went to storm the beaches of Normandy.

to read. science nerd.