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Leaf's Bookshelf
What is it I read?
Some influential books
Books specifically about race and/or social justice
Some funny books!
The rest of the shelf...
- Illusions (in which is found Reminders for the Advanced Soul) and other books by Richard Bach.
- The Bruno books, by C. Baldwin.
Check out the latest Bruno strip or go visit the Bruno homepage or C. Baldwin's home page. Beautiful drawing and thinking.
- Zen and the Art of Making a Living by Laurence G. Boldt.
If you're not sure what you want to do with your life, grab this one.
- The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron.
Release your creativity! Or at least do some interesting excercises.
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey.
As much as I think the First Things First system is way, way too complicated (go read Elaine St. James already), I will keep this on the list. Hesitantly. I've heard that Covey supports some right-wing organizations (was it anti-gay?). Disappointing, if true.
- Sex for One by Betty Dodson.
- Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin.
Even if you don't follow their complete program, just reading about it can change how you relate to money.
- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, of course.
- SWAK by Randy Harelson - an early influence on my creativity.
- The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff.
- Be The Person You Want To Find, The Depression Book,
The Fear Book, The How You Do Anything is How You Do Everything Workbook
and (most importantly to me) There Is Nothing Wrong With You
all by Cheri Huber and/or
the Zen Monastery Practice Center in California.
There Is Nothing Wrong With You is the one book I'd hold onto
if I could choose only one. Also published by this same group is
Buddha Facing The Wall: Interviews with American Zen Monks
edited by Sara Jenkins.
- The Woman's Comfort Book by Jennifer Louden.
She has several other good books, but this remains my favorite of hers. An all-around lovely book.
- Mother Wit by Diane Mariechild.
- The World of Pooh
by AA Milne. I grew up reading the Pooh books and Milne's poetry over and over.
- Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint Exupery.
- Inner Simplicity and
Living the Simple Life by Elaine St. James.
I recommend her books for anyone whose life has gotten out of hand.
- Pretty much anything by SARK:
I have Succulent Wild Woman, The Bodacious Book of Succulence,
A Comfort Companion, and SARK's Journal and Play Book.
She's great to read when you need a little more fun and joy in your life.
- Our Common Ground/Portraits of Blacks Changing the Face of America by Bruce Caines. I think it's helpful for White folks to read about influential and important Black folks... it's a small step to reversing the racism and stereotypes most or all of us learned growing up.
- Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work For Racial Justice by Paul Kivel. I'm not done reading this yet, but I like it so far.
- I Dream A World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America by Brian Lanker.
- No Pity: People With Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement by Joseph Shapiro. I can tell you that I really needed to read this book.
- 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?' : And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum. I picked this one up because I had the same question when I was in college. She answers it, and much more.
- Race Matters by the eloquent Cornel West.
- Divided Sisters: Bridging the Gap Between Black Women and White Women by Madge Wilson and Kathy Russell.
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- Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim - like the Jay Leno headlines books only not stupid. I laugh out loud every time I read this, and I've read it many, many times.
- Science Made Stupid and Cvltvre Made Stvpid by Tom Weller.
- Maybe He's Dead - edited by Mary Ann Madden (I finally got a copy!)
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- A number of computer books including several by O'Reilly and the Cisco Press
- Several shelves full of reading pertinent to Social Work
- Language learning material for French (high school), German (college), and Spanish (someday)
- Miscellaneous fiction and poetry mostly from my time as an English major at Wesleyan University
- A stack of "kids'" books
- Travel guides for various US states, and for India (someday). A US atlas (VERY useful). A Bernice Chesler bed and breakfast guide (one of the few times I'd heartily recommend BOTH buying the book and looking at the web site!).
- Reference books, yearbooks, notebooks, directories, humor, music, bicycle manuals, dance, religion... and more
- Books I have for sale
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by leaf