End of the Year Booklist

 

Books can take us out of ourselves into new and interesting

situations. This didn’t happen as much as I wanted it to this

year. The stress of the pandemic often made it hard to

concentrate. I managed to finish that masters degree too -

which kept me from some of the fiction I like to devour.

I also did one hand painted comic for each day of the year.

I’m enormously pleased with myself for that. For those of

you who make it to the end of the following annotated list

of the things I did read, you’ll find another list of some of

the podcasts that kept me company along the way.

Enjoy!

1. The Russian Five - Keith Gave. What better way to start the new year than a book on hockey and the cold war? Overall though the plotline was missing. The writing was fine, just disconnected.
2. Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life - Stephen Hayes. A stupid title. Some good exercises.
   
3. Justice Is Beauty - Michael Murphy & Alan Ricks. A look at architectural case studies that combine beautiful design and social justice.
4. Library of the Unwritten - A.J.Hackworth. The first in the Hell’s Library series. An AWESOME adventure.
5. Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women - Jane Hall. A book I bought for the library with pretty pictures and brief snippets about 50 (mostly still living and practicing) architects. Money well spent.

Life on Toast #317

 

Improve Yourself with This List

It is not an exaggeration to say that I turn to books to learn and push myself. When the architecture office where I work held a meeting to brainstorm ways to educate the non-black staff about the BLM movement and what we can do, I - of course - offered to create a list of books and other sources. What follows is that list, garnered from my library research, coworker suggestions, and quite a few social media posts I saved. Thank you to those other list-makers out there who share their knowledge so we can educate ourselves!