Well I'm getting my reading list together, and I was wondering if you all read on stand, and what you read? I know for scent reasons it's not the best choice so I don't do it for archery, but for rifle I do. Are there any genres that you guys love/prefer? I myself am a big fan of history and science... They get me thinking about life, and IMHO, the woods is one of the best places to think about the wonders of life! My BIL likes Louis L'Amour
Here are the books I've completed or reread on stand. Some are pretty nerdy, so don't judge me too harshly!
How to Build a Dinosaur -Jack Horner
Demon Haunted World- Carl Sagan
Climbing Mount Improbable- Richard Dawkins
MeatEater- Steve Rinella (GREAT book)
Cadillac Desert- Marc Reisner
Your Inner Fish- Neil Shubin (One of my favorite books of all time. He is the scientist that found the "missing link". He does a great job explaining heavy concepts while giving the reader a few breaks by inserting his personal anecdotes.)
Sand County Almanac- Aldo
El Beso de la Mujer Araña - Manuel Puig (I think that this one would be way to weird for lots of us here. I had to read it for my spanish lit class, and happened to do it on stand. I liked it, but it is not at all like any of the books I listed above in either form or subject matter. Regardless, it is a literary gem)
Field Notes from a Catastrophe - Elizabeth Kolbert
Silent Spring- Rachel Carson
Living Downstream - Sandra Steingraber (She came and spoke to one of my bio classes. She's a bit eccentric, and has been to jail for protesting, but she presents a lot of good info that gets you thinking about large scale systems and our role in them)
My list for this year includes a lot of geology stuff, but still some bio and history. It'll take me a good year to get through all of these, and most likely even longer.
This years list:
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution- Greg Cochran
The Control of Nature- John McPhee
Annals of the Former World- John McPhee
American Buffalo- Steve Rinella
Governing The Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action- Elinor Ostrom
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed American- John M. Barry.
Anything I should add to my list?!?
Here are the books I've completed or reread on stand. Some are pretty nerdy, so don't judge me too harshly!
How to Build a Dinosaur -Jack Horner
Demon Haunted World- Carl Sagan
Climbing Mount Improbable- Richard Dawkins
MeatEater- Steve Rinella (GREAT book)
Cadillac Desert- Marc Reisner
Your Inner Fish- Neil Shubin (One of my favorite books of all time. He is the scientist that found the "missing link". He does a great job explaining heavy concepts while giving the reader a few breaks by inserting his personal anecdotes.)
Sand County Almanac- Aldo
El Beso de la Mujer Araña - Manuel Puig (I think that this one would be way to weird for lots of us here. I had to read it for my spanish lit class, and happened to do it on stand. I liked it, but it is not at all like any of the books I listed above in either form or subject matter. Regardless, it is a literary gem)
Field Notes from a Catastrophe - Elizabeth Kolbert
Silent Spring- Rachel Carson
Living Downstream - Sandra Steingraber (She came and spoke to one of my bio classes. She's a bit eccentric, and has been to jail for protesting, but she presents a lot of good info that gets you thinking about large scale systems and our role in them)
My list for this year includes a lot of geology stuff, but still some bio and history. It'll take me a good year to get through all of these, and most likely even longer.
This years list:
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution- Greg Cochran
The Control of Nature- John McPhee
Annals of the Former World- John McPhee
American Buffalo- Steve Rinella
Governing The Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action- Elinor Ostrom
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed American- John M. Barry.
Anything I should add to my list?!?