Howdy folks. So, I like to read. Spare nearly three years post-undergrad, reading has been a life-long love. (Attending college with an overloaded course schedule and just over two hours of sleep a night for the final two years was more than enough to destroy a 20-year love of reading. By the time I got out of school I contentedly walked away from books – of all kinds – for a long time. Ironically (but perhaps not so uncommon), school killed my love of reading. And it took me years to get it back. I started slowly – reading just fiction and children’s lit and staying away from anything too serious or academic. With great thanks, I moved on and rediscovered all the brilliance that is literature, reestablishing my love of language.)
After moving to the Chi and starting grad school I decided that I needed a way to catalog my reading, particularly as I was building a library of non-fiction I knew I would need to remember for my upcoming thesis. Enter GoodReads. (Since, I have also established a complex EndNotes database to organize my reading, but that’s another story...)
It seems only relevant that as the year rounds to close that I would look back on what I have read during the past twelve months. Now that I’m in grad school, there is (again) little time for independent reading. (Or perhaps I just use that time for other things – like sleeping, eating, or staring blankly at the wall, trying to clear some space in my brain for more grad schooling.)
So, without further ado, I present my Reading List for 2007. It’s everything I’ve read this year (I think). I’m a non-fiction nerd, for sure. Take note, too, that every book on this list, save one, was a grad school required reading. (And that one book was a required read for a class I didn’t take, but picked up from the bookstore anyway.) Typically I would typically toss in “for fun” books on breaks, but on the Christmas holidays I just needed a brain break and over the summer I was in Mexico (for school). So, my literary life is all school, all the time. And I’m more knowledgeable for it! (The list includes readings from Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall terms 2007.)
I have organized the books into fiction and non-fiction categories, and they are listed in date order such that books I read early in the year are listed first and books I read more recently are listed later.
Until next time, read on, my good fellows!
Fiction
Non-fiction
After moving to the Chi and starting grad school I decided that I needed a way to catalog my reading, particularly as I was building a library of non-fiction I knew I would need to remember for my upcoming thesis. Enter GoodReads. (Since, I have also established a complex EndNotes database to organize my reading, but that’s another story...)
It seems only relevant that as the year rounds to close that I would look back on what I have read during the past twelve months. Now that I’m in grad school, there is (again) little time for independent reading. (Or perhaps I just use that time for other things – like sleeping, eating, or staring blankly at the wall, trying to clear some space in my brain for more grad schooling.)
So, without further ado, I present my Reading List for 2007. It’s everything I’ve read this year (I think). I’m a non-fiction nerd, for sure. Take note, too, that every book on this list, save one, was a grad school required reading. (And that one book was a required read for a class I didn’t take, but picked up from the bookstore anyway.) Typically I would typically toss in “for fun” books on breaks, but on the Christmas holidays I just needed a brain break and over the summer I was in Mexico (for school). So, my literary life is all school, all the time. And I’m more knowledgeable for it! (The list includes readings from Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall terms 2007.)
I have organized the books into fiction and non-fiction categories, and they are listed in date order such that books I read early in the year are listed first and books I read more recently are listed later.
Until next time, read on, my good fellows!
Fiction
- 1. Passing by Nella Larsen
Non-fiction
- 1. The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies by Marcel Mauss
- 2. The Edison Schools: Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education by Kenneth J. Saltman
- 3. School Commercialism: From Democratic Ideal to Market Commodity by Alex Molnar
- 4. Concepts of the Self by Anthony Elliott
- 5. The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures by Jean Baudrillard
- 6. The Accursed Share 1: Consumption by Georges Bataille
- 7. Working Towards Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs by David R. Roediger
- 8. White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism edited by Ashley W. Doane and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- 9. To Be an American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation by Bill Ong Hing
- 10. Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington
- 11. Immigrants Out!: The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States edited by Juan F. Perea
- 12. Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism edited by Ruth Frankenberg
- 13. Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes by Lev S. Vygotsky
- 14. The Child's Conception of the World: A 20th-Century Classic of Child Psychology by Jean Piaget
- 15. An Invitation to Social Construction by Kenneth J. Gergen
- 16. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything by Joe Trippi
- 17. Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire
- 18. Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire
- 19. Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- 20. Rancheros in Chicagoacan: Language and Identity in the Transnational Community by Marcia Farr
- 21. Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood edited by Joe L. Kincheloe
- 22. Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives by Sonia Neito
- 23. Shop 'Til You Drop: Consumer Behavior and American Culture by Arthur Asa Berger
- 24. What If All the Kids Are White?: Anti-Bias Multicultural Education with Young Children and Families by Louise Derman Sparks and Patricia Ramsey
- 25. What If and Why?: Literacy Invitations for Multilingual Classrooms by Katie Van Sluys
- 26. The Consumer Society Reader edited Douglas Holt
- 27. Branded Nation: The Marketing of Megachurch, College Inc., and Museumworld by James B. Twitchell
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