light at the end of the tunnel

As I approach the 5 month mark to my graduation date (thank goodness), several things are keeping me motivated, none of which are career or job related.  Today I was in class for 5+ hours and have about 8+ hours of other class related shit to do tonight.  Not fun.  The thought of doing fun things soon keeps me going:  knitting, spinning, reading, biking, gardening, watching movies, etc.

After some thinking and reading over blogs I love I decided to post my "to read" list that is becoming quite extensive.  

Factory Girls

From Village to City in a Changing China

Leslie T. Chang

Letter to My Daughter

Maya Angelou

The Superorganism

The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies

Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson

Paradise; Beloved; A Mercy; Jazz

Toni Morrison

Sea of Poppies

Amitav Ghosh

Ecotopia

Ernest Callenbach

Unaccustomed Earth

Jhumpa Lahiri

2666

Roberto Bolano, translated by Natasha Wimmer

The Jewel of Medina

Sherry Jones

Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert

Hope’s Edge

The Next Diet for a Small Planet

Anna Lappe and Frances Moore Lappe

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Barbara Kingsolver

Orlando

Virginia Wolf

Poetry of Seamus Heaney

Zodiac

Neal Stephenson

Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor

Leonard Boff

How much should a person consume?

Ramachandra Guha

Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival

Dan Jaffe

Unbowed

Wangari Maathi

Shakti: Realm of the Divine Mother

Vanamali

Girls In Trucks

Katie Crouch

What You Call Winter

Nalini Jones

Identity Work in Social Movements

Eds: Jo Reger, Daniel J. Myers, and Rachel L. Einwohner

The Politics of Identity

Solidary Building among America’s Working Poor

Erin E. O’Brien

Sciences from Below

Feminisms, Poscolonialities, and Modernities

Sandra Harding

Women in American Journalism

A New History

Jan Whitt

Digital Media and Democracy

Tactics in Hard Times

Ed. Megan Boler

Tactical Biopolitics

Art, Activism, and Technoscience

Ed. Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip

The Wisdom of Whores

Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS

Elizabeth Pisani

Make A Zine!

When Words and Graphics Collide

Bill Brent and Joe Biel

Outliers

The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

Bag Bazaar

25 Stylish Bags to Sew in an Afternoon

Megan Avery

The Aftermath of Feminism

Gender, Culture, and Social Change

Angela McRobbie

Taking Back God

American women rising up for religious equality

Leora Tanenbaum

Do you have any other recommendations?  Please tell me and I'll add them to my list!  You can also email me at liz.martin0518(at)gmail(dot)com.