Summer Reading

Summer vacation has come and gone. Rome, Thessaloniki, Alonissos, Samothrace, Alexandroupolis, Istanbul (and Ft. Niagara, NY and Lowell, Mass. as well) It was wonderful. I have uploaded photos, and over the next few weeks I will share some stories and some images.

In the meantime…

I have become a very bad reader. I don’t read much, I don’t start what I finish. But since June 28 I absolutely devoured books. The shelf in the picture above was probably a quarter of my luggage (by weight). And I read it all. (Except the McPhee, which I gave away to a guy who had worked on the North Slope during the period McPhee was writing. And the games book, which I continue to skim; I use it in my elective. And the dictionaries, of course).

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Salonica: City of Ghosts. Mark Mazower. (gave away in Istanbul. Might try to review it on Amazon.)
The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero. Robert Kaplan.
The Great Human Diasporas. Luigi Cavelli-Sforza. (gave to an American ex-pat in Greece).
The Fossil Trail. Ian Tattersall.
The Golden Ratio. Mario Livio.
Viruses, Plagues & History. Jay Oldstone.

Coming Into the Country. John McPhee. I only read one of the three essays.

The dictionaries, teach yourself books, and camera manuals – I used them, I didn’t read them.

After I got back I also read:
On Divided Ground. Alan Taylor.
A History and Guide to Old Fort Niagara. Brian Dunnigan.
Lowell: The Story of an Industrial City. Official National Park Handbook #140.
Lyddie. Katherine Paterson.

Cover images are not here yet. Check back. I will be adding them in the coming days.