Corner View: A Good Read

The topic this week is "A Good Read."

I came home the last two days to packages waiting for me.

I had ordered three books in hard copy--two were only offered that way.

and the third I thought I might want to share with colleagues,

so I didn't go the Kindle route.

Two of them I read about in our newspaper.

It has a weekly column on the latest "good reads."

Last week Facing the Sunshine and Avoiding the Shadows

by Becky Johnen

was listed in the "Good Reads" ( not really its title) column.

Since education is undergoing immense change

and that change is causing all kinds of stress,

I thought this book might help.

The following book was recommended in a weekly column

by a naturalist.

{Several blogs have had an influence on me 

in motivating me to get more in touch with nature.

One of those is Susie's blog "Just a Moment"

I have been following it for several years now.}

Anyhow, Gone for the Day sounded like something I would enjoy

and something that might motivate me to have even more contact with nature.

The author Ned Smith is long gone, but his field notes and sketches,

as well as his newspaper columns, remain.

This was a book published by a nature organization back in the 70's.

It is still popular today.

However, the book actually being critiqued and recommended

was the book another naturalist put together

of hundreds of more notes, sketches, and articles by Ned Smith.

I decided to order the first one and then possibly get the second.

This is the catalog from which I order books for my grandkids.

The selection and details of each book are awesome.

The books have become part of a special collection

my daughter keeps for her two children.

The Amazing Machines is a set I got my grandson Aaron and it has been a huge hit.

For more views on "good reads," hop
on over to Francesca's Fuoriborgo.