Cissa Fleming

Books

Thanks to Delicious Library, an application for  the Mac to organize and catalog books, I could include more than 4000 of our books and 300 DVDs in an website.

 
It took 9 months to catalog them, but I still have boxes of paperback books in the garage (1500 cataloged already, around 2000 still to do it). And, of course, new books every week… 

We are part of a book club called Devonshire;  here is the list of some of the books that they have reading these 10 years.

My favorite books?  Illusions, by Richard Bach, and A Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marques.

What books I have read lately?

one of our bookshelves

• Divine Matrix, by Gregg Braden
• World Without End, by Ken Follet
• the 11 books of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series
• all Donald Westlake’s Dortmunter Novels (the last one, Get Real, is hilarious!)
• Don’t Look Down, by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayers
• Agnes and the Hitman, by Bob Mayers and Jennifer Crusie
• Ensaios sobre a Cegueira (Blindness), by Jose Saramago
• A Profecia Celestina (The Celestine Prophesy), by James Redfied
• O Monge e o Executivo (The Servant), by James C Hunter
• The Power of  Now, by Eckhart Tolle
• Three Cups of Tea:  One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time  - by Greg Mortenson and Dvid Olivere Relin
• Tesla: Man out of Time, by Margaret Cheney
• The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, by Candice Millard
• How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, by Michael J Gelb

The Sparrow – Mary Doria Russel

Amazon.com Review
In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet which will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question the meaning of being “human.” When the lone survivor of the expedition, Emilio Sandoz, returns to Earth in 2059, he will try to explain what went wrong… Words like “provocative” and “compelling” will come to mind as you read this shocking novel about first contact with a race that creates music akin to both poetry and prayer. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.