Summer: So Much to Enjoy

So, another year around the sun! I had a sip of frozen lemonade – a sign, for me, that it’s summer. Listening and reading always show up on my “Get It Done” list.  Here’s my start:

• 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart
• The Honor Code by Kwame Anthony Appiah
• Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah
• Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s Tradition of Religious Equality by Martha Nussbaum
• Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz
• Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser
• The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson
• Beginner’s Grace: Bringing Prayer to Life by Kate Braestrup
• Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How Your Friends’ Friends’ Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler
• The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
• Bumping into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business by Danny Goldberg
• Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespheare
• All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Ageby Hubert Dreyfus
• The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk

In the next few months, I’m also going to be ambitious and try to re-read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man; hoping to re-watch seasons 1, 4, and 5 of The Wire; and, to catch the completed version of Girl Walk//All Day.  And, I hope that during the sunny days, I’ll fill my ears with Booker T. Jones, Adele, Bach’s Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, Scala and Kolacny Brothers, Wendy & Lisa, Marcus Shelby, Carolina Chocolate Drops, and Jose James.

Many thanks to the good folk at Barnes & Nobles @ BU for helping me put together this list — and, of course, you can pick up any of these books there as part of the Dean’s Reading list.

Sunshine and peace.