Summer reading recs wanted!

[green_fae]

Please pimp some reading in one or more of the following categories! I am burnt out as all hell and plan to
try to catch up on my reading during my well-earned and selfishly protected vacation time coming up.

I'll rifle around here and post some recs of my own after I flip the laundry.

The categories•Spirituality/Meditation (all faiths or

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[grace_poppy]

Ooooh, books! You know, asking for recommendations strokes your flist's ego. Good job. :D

Historical Fiction - DOROTHY DUNNETT!!!!! The Game of Kings which I've been pimping all over my journal. Hers are the best books EVER.

Nautical non-fiction - In the Heart of the Sea about a wrecked whaling ship and the survivors in little row boats trying to get rescued or reach land and resorting to cannibalism... gruesome and desperate but fascinating. It even made me cry, a tiny bit, and I read it so obsessively that I had to finish it in an airport when I went to visit my friend, reading as I walked to baggage claim (I never read while walking!) hoping she wouldn't be there yet to meet me.

Spirituality/Meditation - Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis. He's so wise and brilliantly intelligent, but also so down-to-earth and friendly. He can make deep philosophical things easy to understand without sounding condescending, more like he's just another fellow traveler giving you tips. I love him.

[grace_poppy]

Oh oh oh - or for other nautical and exploratory and desperation (which is the kind of nautical non-fiction that I like) - The Lost Men about a disastrous but heroic Antarctic expedition. It's more land-based than ship-based. Maybe that counts more for the quality non-fiction category. It's totally gripping.

[grace_poppy]

http://www.thelostmen.com/

[bookoflies777]

"Daisy Cooks!" by Daisy Martinez - recipes with Latin flair(she has a TV show on public television)

"Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science" by Robert Lomas - details the founding of The Royal Society and it's ties to Freeemasonry.

"Holy Blood Holy Grail" - you may have already read this, but if not, it is very good. See where Dan Brown got most of his ideas for 'the Da Vinci Code'.

"The Road to Madness" - a collection of HP Lovecraft tales