Books

As someone who slept their way through high school and parts of college, reading the assigned books was always an issue for me. 

Matter-of-fact, when I first arrived at Shippensburg University, we were supposed to have read a book to discuss in groups during freshman orientation.  When the professor expectedly called on me to answer a question about the book, I politely told him that I hadn't done the reading. Much to my surprise, the world did NOT end, which is why I'm able to tell you about the books that I have personally selected for myself to read since then. 

Here are the books I've read since graduating:

 

If you've read any of these books and would like to discuss them, please contact me!  And if there are any books that I should be reading, I want to hear about them, too! 

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  • "I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is that we’re tool builders. I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. It was not too proud a showing for the crown of creation. So, that didn’t look so good. But, then somebody at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And, a man on a bicycle, a human on a bicycle, blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts.

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