Read: February

What am I reading this month?

Moby Dick - Herman Melville
A College Book of Modern Verse - Robinson & Rideout
Narrative of Sojourner Truth - Truth
Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children - Jonathan Kellerman
Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel

Comments:
-Ah, the classics. I just started Moby and I'm really excited because I've been meaning to read this since...forever. It has a lot of meaty verbiage and I find myself being roped into the pictures of the deep blue sea.
- I'm a sucker for old textbooks and old books in general. So when I saw Modern Verse at an estate sale (for $1 no less AND it's a first edition!) I had to scoop it up. Edith Sitwell, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and the master himself - D.H. Lawrence are just a few of the names that grace these pages.
- Sojourner. Oh, man. One of the great luminaries of our time and her story is one that everyone should read regardless of color or sex. She is a testament to the human spirit and how it can never be broken despite repeated attempts of assassination. Although I don't face half as many trials and tribulations as she did in her time, her story still resinates. Ms. Truth was a lover and a fighter and she undoubtedly made the world a better place for you and I to live in.
- Savage Spawn attracts me for two reasons: 1) my degree in Psychology and 2) my childhood. No, I don't claim to have been a "savaged spawn" (how I do hate the title) or a psychopath, but unfortunately I can relate to its allure once upon a time.
- I saw a documentary once on physics that talked about Galileo and his contributions to the sciences. Since then I've wanted to know as much information about him as humanly possible. Daughter is just another peek into Galileo's world. Aside from being a physicist, philosopher, astronomer and prisoner of war, he was also just a dad that loved his daughter.