[Vision2020] summer reading!

Sue Hovey suehovey at moscow.com
Mon Jun 9 10:53:44 PDT 2008


A book by a MHS graduate now teaching history at the U of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tony Steinhoff:  The Gods of the City, Protestantism and Religious Culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914.   I've just barely gotten into it, but so far it's an interesting book which makes a point that despite the secular movement in Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries, religion played a significant role in the formulation of state policy even as church attendance dropped.  There's much more to it than that, but I've just begun.

Also, one I just finished, and would recommend to anyone interested in Hawaiian culture, jazz, or the WWII "comfort women" imprisoned by Japan, Kiana Davenport's Song of the Exile is, I will venture to claim, the best novel I will read all summer.  Alice Walker says, "You can't read Kiana Davenport without being transformed."

Sue H
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  first i'd like to thank warren hayman for his poetry selections . here, bullet is one of the finest works of literature coming out of the bush debacle.

  but i'd like to also recommend some of the home teams' poetry:ron mcfarland and bob wrigley both have many fine books of poetry. ui writing students tiffany midge's  outlaw renegades, jeff p. jones book of poems,   stratus opacus and stephanie lennox's the heart that lies outside the body.

  for warren i'd recommend the new translation of ovid's metamorphous.perhaps after warren reads the new translation we can get going on developing the ovid festival in italy.

  serious novels i'd recommend are lost city radio, read about the power of radio and what connection means to people.

  ministry of special cases packs a wallop. a father's love for his son

  mary clearman blew's jackalope dreams reveals the basis of romance and generations in the american west.

  also on the home team is brandon schrand's memoir of growing up in soda springs idaho.ender's hotel - the wonderment of being a boy and the joy of family

  for da vinci code lovers richard alpert's final theory does for einstein's theories what dan brown did for christianity

  lovers of noir and detective stories will like dashiell hammett's tale of butte -the red harvest-what happens to a town when the workers want the health and saftey laws enforced.

  the author of then we came to an end-will ferris the pen hemingway winner for 2008 will be  reading at ui in the fall.life for those losing their way in corporate america

  boise author anthony doerr has three wonderful books a season in rome-to get you ready for warren's italy tour, about grace an amazing book about science snow and doing the unexpected and a popular colelction of short stories the shell collector.

  jodi picoult's books including her new novel change of heart are good for those need a heart warming read.

  for those pondering a change in life kris radishes' dancing naked at the edge of the world will help you understand the decisions one has to make.

  charlie wilson's war-the basis for the finest movie tom hansen has seen
    


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