North Star Over My Shoulder: A Flying Life, by Bob Buck.
Actually I just started reading it. It's autobiographical and chronicals the introduction of aviation

I just finished reading Talent is Overrated. It was an interesting book about the necessity of hard work and deliberate dedication to training.

Drops Like Stars by Rob Bell. An excellent look at creativity.

Recently read Robert M. Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values" Published in 1974 when I was riding a motorbike in Nigeria

The World is Open by Curtis Bonk. For those who want to know where elearning and web is going. Great look at the opening of education

Just read Drive by Dan Pink. It's about how people are truly motivated and how corporations and educators need to rethink how they traditionally motivate

Monster in the Box is the 1st Ruth Rendell book I've read in a long time. It's one of her Inspector Wexford mysteries, not one of her psychological mysteries.

Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford

My son just read Touch Not the Cat, an old Mary Stewart book. He liked the setting and the mysteries running through the plot. The main character has telepathy.

This was a really fun book. Not for kids--close examination of the micro-economics involved in prostitution (in humans and other species).

Just finished "The Help," a very exciting story about the role of black domestic workers in Jackson Miss at the start of the Civil Rights movement.

Just finished 'Death in Holy Orders' (P.D. James) Police procedural/murder mystery set in a C of E theological college.

Just started 'D-Day' (Antony Beevor)

Wild Swans by Jung Chang because it's a readable way of getting the essence of China in the middle of the 20th Century

Growing up Bilingual and torn between two cultures. Ariel Dorfman pulls you into a world full of contradictions.