Read - seek mirth and beauty

with music light and gay

Music: Gretchen Peters. Hello Cruel World. Shawn Colvin. All Fall Down.

Books:

Mo Yan. Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads & Big Breasts & Wide Hips

Running a Marathon for Dummies

Joseph wambaugh. Harbor Nocturne

Music: Davy Graham. Folk Blues & Beyond

Books:

Crystal Zevon. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

Run To Win, Be A Better Runner

John Joseph Adams. Other Worlds Than These

Mary Murray. When Cane Was King

Music: Willie Nelson. Heroes; Buddy Holly. Listen To Me; All the country

Books:

Kathrine Switzer and Roger Robinson. 26.2 Marathon Stories

Scott Jurek. Eat & Run

Tristan Miller. Run Like Crazy

Music: Neil Young with Crazy Horse. Psychedelic Pill

Books:

Peter Ackroyd. The Canterbury Tales

Robert MacFarlane. Mountains of the Mind & The Wild

Fuminori Nakamura. The Thief

Ursula K Le Guin. The Unreal and the Real

Fiction not to bother with:

John Lescroart. David Baldacci. Nelson DeMille. Lee Child. Lawrence Block. Dan Brown.

Fiction that’s not a bother:

Khaled Hosseini. A Thousand Splendid Suns & The Kite Runner

Don DeLillo. Underworld

Books:

Richard Dawkins. An Appetite For Wonder

A.C. Grayling. The God Argument

Bill Bryson. A Walk in the Woods

Bernard-Henri Levy. American Vertigo

Don Watson. American Journeys

Philip Caputo. The Longest Road

Lonely Planet USA

Biographies by Graham Nash and on Robert Plant