Spencer Reads
A little history about this page: It started out as a thing where I put books I thought had greatly impacted my life. What I quickly found was that within a couple of months, new books were entering my life that were challenging the way I thought about the world. In order to better honor that tension–the fact that while I love Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, I haven’t read it since twelfth grade and no longer really think it has a profound day-to-day effect in my life–I have decided to borrow from a couple of other bloggers who keep a running list of what they’ve read and what they are reading.
Currently Reading
Saving the World by Julia Alvarez
May 2013
The Plague of Fantasies by Slavoj Zizek
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie
The History of Sexuality Volume 1: An Introduction by Michel Foucault
The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
The Beak and Claws of America by Vic Donahey
Honest Vic by Cecil Richmond Bartlett
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
April 2013
Faces at the Bottom of the Well by Derrick Bell
Drown by Junot Díaz
Every Good Endeavor by Timothy Keller
March 2013
The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
What We Talk About When We Talk About God by Rob Bell
Beloved by Toni Morrison
February 2013
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
