Sigh…Summer Reading List
Yes, it’s that time again my fellow scholars of the past, present, and future. The dreaded summer reading list. Visions of certain spring-fed swimming holes hang in your thoughts as your English teacher’s voice intrudes in the background, demanding recognition of names such as Gary Paulsen, Anne Frank, and Richard Wright.
Well, we’ve come a long way. And to those who look forward to flipping through a few pages poolside, my recommendation is as follows…
Non-fiction: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, by Oliver Sacks. (Touchstone Publishing) Are you interested in phantom limbs? Have you ever wondered why people suddenly cannot recall large chunks of their past? In this harrowing record of extensive case studies, Oliver Sacks exposes only the most fascinating and sobering stories of various neurological disorders. Dr. Sacks can be found here discussing a recent hallucination he experienced due to a rare and lethal cancer known as ocular melanoma. Text via wired.com/ Photo via ‘nise on flickr.
I might just pick up The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat because it was written by a dude named Oliver Sacks!
if there are no cliffsnotes, i’m not reading it.
The Hatchet was my favorite book as a kid. For an embarrassingly long period of my life it stood as the only book I had ever read completely. But I made up for it by reading almost a dozen times.