reading list

Here's a list of books I'm reading now, when I'm waiting in line at the bank, in a staff room before classes, before falling asleep, or waiting for a floor to dry.

1. The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing, A Contemporary Perspective on the Classical tradition, by Anthony Ryder
2. Underground to Canada, by Barbara Tucker
3. Awakening The Buddha Within, Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World, by Lama Surya Das
4. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Informal talks on Zen meditation and practice, by Shunryu Suzuki
5. Haiku in English, by Harold G. Henderson
6. Galatea 2.2, a novel, by Richard Powers
7. Sixty Songs of Milarepa, translated by C. C. Chang
8. Tales from the Arabian Nights, Reader's Digest version (sigh)
9. Gödel, Escher, Bach, a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll, by Douglas R. Hofstadter
10. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, by Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman

Both school boards are closed today, and there's no Mad Science. The Mansion House is shovelled, but I had to turn customers away because none of the other staff or owners showed up until 12:15. Lesson planning time!