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Pauline's Reading List
Magazines I read monthly:
- National Geographic: I
have read this magazine since I was young. In fact, I collect them.
People who know me are on the lookout for old issues. I have all the
magazines from about 1965 to the present. I have most issues from 1920
or so until 1965. Quite a collection. I enjoy looking through
old issues at the advertising. How different it is from ads today, but
yet for the same products often enough. I also like the aboriginal
porn. Who doesn't?
- National Geographic Traveler:
NatGeo for the world traveler or world traveler wanna be. Wonderful
photos and excellent articles.
- AFAR: A cool travel magazine I
discovered recently that covers experiential travel. Very nicely done.
- Smithsonian: One of my
new favorites. The articles are amazing and get in-depth on several
cool topics. Well done!
- Vanity Fair: I used to think I
wasn't high brow enough to read it. I still think I have some work to
do, but I enjoy the magazine and the articles are fantastic.
- Newsweek: I must have
my weekly dose of news and Newsweek does a great job digesting the news for
me and giving me what I need.
- People Magazine: It can't all be
serious news.....Besides, weekly news about the Kardashians is like a
horoscope - can't proceed without it (please recognize the sarcasm here)
- Cooking Light:
The recipes are wonderful and the tips even better.
- Country Living: I live in the country
and should read about it. This magazine has great tips and information
about furnishing and renovating one's home.
- Coastal Living: A girl can dream of
living along the coast, can't she?
- Rachael Ray Magazine:
I don't care if you hate her, I love her and her mag!
- FoodTV Magazine:
I love the channel and the magazine.
- Better Homes and Gardens:
because I want a better home and some gardens.
- Hobby Home Farm: My husband and I
talk about being gentleman/gentlewoman farmers one day. This will help
us to do that. Information about gardening and animal rearing.
- Real Simple: because I
would like my life to be this way. Perhaps I should put that on my
Lifetime List.
- Yoga Journal: Each
month they dissect several yoga postures for more in-depth study of poses.
Great resource.
- Whole Living: One of
my favorites that I save until last to read most months. It offers
wonderful tips and articles about getting and staying zen. Now if only
I could get it to work for me.
- Health: Offers
wonderful tips to staying healthy.
- Self: Same as above but
this is my favorite of the health magazines.
- Fitness: Same as above.
- Shape: Same as above.
- Runner's World: Hell, I ran a
marathon, I guess that makes me a runner. May as well find out how to
do it better. This is an excellent resource.
Non-Academic Books I have enjoyed recently:
One of my goals each semester break is to
read non-academic stuff. I enjoy academic books, but prefer fiction or
non-fiction not disguised as academic. I like to devour books when time
permits and have recently
read:
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett. I loved
this and have already decided how it will end since it leaves you hanging
just a tad....
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig
Larsson. The movie is out and I cannot see it without having read the
book first. This was very well done.
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by
Jamie Ford. Damn. Damn. That's all I will say. Read this
book.
- Erik Larson - anything by this man. He writes
non-fiction as if it's fiction. And he chooses topics that I wouldn't
think I would be interested in. I read his recent book about the rise
of Nazi Germany titled
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's
Berlin.
Nothing says "beach read" like Nazis.
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Before I go to Sleep: A Novel by S.J. Watson.
Interesting idea, but I started to get bored of her waking up everyday not
knowing anything.
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Victoria Holt:
I discovered this writer fairly recently. Shame because she died in
the 1990s and wrote the gothic mysteries in the 1950s or so that's what I
have been reading . Where have I been?
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Reliquary: Douglas Preston and
Lincoln Child. I have read several of their books and am trying to
start at the beginning of the series. I like to go in order.
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Elizabeth Peters: I enjoy her
forays in to fictional Egyptology. Fun stuff and very well written.
It's all very British with tea and sandwiches and manners.
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The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz. This is a memoir written by the founder of the Acumen Fund.
Reading about her successes and failures in Africa has helped us with our
own successes and failures with Embrace It Africa.
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Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David
Oliver Relin.
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New York by Edward Rutherfurd. Very fun
epic-saga read. A bit disappointed that he didn't carry the
African-American character through.
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The Healing of America by T.R. Reid.
Amazing. It is wonderful to see how universal health coverage can be
accomplished in developed nations but not our own.
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Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristoff and
Sheryl W. Dunn. The liner notes said that you wouldn't be able to put
this book down and would read it in one sitting. This was not
bullshit. The most amazing book I've read in some time. Women's
rights need to be recognized worldwide and this is a start by showing us
exactly what is wrong in the world.
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William
Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer. I laughed and I cried. It reminded
me so much of our experiences in Uganda. Heartwarming. Also
shows you what a little moxie and ingenuity can do.
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Pauline
W. Hoffmann, Ph.D.
