Reading List

Lately I have bought and received many books and I have given myself permission to start reading them. A lot of them are NON FICTION gasp! What a change from the usual textbooks that I have been stuck reading for the past 5 months. (I still do have textbooks to read this semester but alas not as many as I did last semester so I think that the addition of some reads that aren't about any subject that I'm taking in school should be manageable? I'll see how that goes)

Although some of them I should mention pertain to the subject of Osteology which is also the subject of a course that I took last semester.These books were recommended reads from the Prof. So i promptly ran home and added them to my wishlist on Indigo.

You don't know how long its been that I have sat down with a good book. Since the summer when I read The Hunger Games. (Which I should mention has been added to my list as a reread.)

These are the books that are on my list:

Exciting right? 8 new smelling books to read (I love smelling books weird right? it really is a hobby within 

itself) 

One seems to not have its own picture and that is the one called Sweat Shop Paris. Its a book about a sewing cafe in Paris. In the cafe people are encouraged to recycle from their own closets and create treasures from things that they already have. It basically is making you sweat over making things which in turns lessens the need for people in sweatshops to do so. Awesome idea right!? If I ever get to Paris this place is going to be on my list of stops right underneath the Eiffel Tower.

Hoopla is an embroidery book that I have been eyeing up for months ever since the end of summer. I love the inspiration that can be found in its pages it is a showcase of things that can be embroidered that I have never seen done before. It's definitely one worth checking out!

So the Body Farm is a place where people can donate their bodies for science and the students there watch them decay and record how different things affect the rate of decay. Dr. Bill Bass was the one that started the Body Farm and is a well known Forensic Anthropologist. He is a very good writer. This is one of the ones that my Prof recommended reading.

This book was written before the one above and is also written by Dr. Bill Bass.

 How did this sneaky book get in there? Okay so this is a textbook for this semester however it is for the class that I like the most so far. And of all the textbooks I have read it has been the most interesting one thus far. Maybe its because its in the field that I am most interested in studying about or maybe the writing is just above par and I'm sure a winning point is that it has been written within the last 5 years because believe it or not most textbooks have not and it makes for very dry reading.

I love anything True Blood/ Sookie Stackhouse related enough said.

This is a needle craft book that has patterns that are a bit dark and I love them for it! It is different from the traditional patterns seen out there and that's what draws my eyes much the same as Hoopla did.

This is another book that was recommended by my Prof. Its about the Frankin Expedition and it details the discovery of the people who were lost in the expedition and their state of health and the conclusions that were made about it I won't give anything away as  I haven't read it yet but I've been told that there was some Lead poisoning involved that made them do crazy things. It's a combination of two fields of interest North American Archaeology and Osteology! 

Some of the pictures are blurry I think that the technology of my 6 year old camera is a little behind.

What are you reading theses days?

Happy Creating!

Jessica