favorites and current reads.

Currently my most treasured tome is Delirium by Lauren Oliver, because love between people persists even in a dystopian country where love is illegal and legally required to be “cured.”  I'm a big believer in love, so much so that I wonder if there is any effective treatment to put a stop to true love. Written in quite poetic prose Delirium reminds the reader through dramatic exaggeration of the price, consequences and sometimes necessary and seldom drastic sacrifices needed for true love to thrive.

 My favorite book of all time is Quick as a Cricket by Audrey and Ron Wood.  Not only is it beautifully illustrated, but I love the message of self discovery and self understanding.  I love how it accepts and celebrates the inner ironies and complexities of who we are as individuals, an essential lesson for all of us.

I am currently reading

1. Eve by Anna Carey, fascinating YA novel about a dystopian America recovering from a fatal plague/virus that kills more women then men. A king rules over this version of America and forces women to give birth to child after child to repopulate the nation. A girl named Eve and Arden, her former rival from school, and Caleb, a rough, rebellious boy living in the wild.

2. Virals by Kathy Reichs about a trio of scientist high schoolers as they become involved in a murder mystery and a mammalian virus off the coast of Charleston South Carolina. 

as well as my text books. 

pre term inspiration, semester starts tomorrow!!.

As i start this semester (Spring 2013) my 2nd in the SJSU SLIS program. I am full of excitement, doubt, stress, fear, and as well as my constantly renewed love for books and gratitude for everyone who  lets me read, makes me read new things in new ways, and helps me read. As well as the books and authors who open my mind and heart to new realities and provide stories full of keen insights into the mysteries of how other people view the world, and teach lessons that can't be conveyed or taught in any other way, through any other medium. The potential for new thriving individual imaginations and creative intelligences are what keeps me going. Even with this optimism from time to time I get disillusioned, then once again i turn the page, and open myself to the hobby no, the lifestyle of enhancing the power of reading which is often transformative and restorative, inspiring, and insightful.

 I hope I can avoid the page turning burnout.

I look forward to my two classes this term. Leadership in Information sciences and materials for young adults.

Read on!

Drew