Reading 2010: Maureen Moore
This is the first installment of what I hope will become a series of posts on the books people read in 2010. We start with Maureen Moore, a professor of Humanities at Cosumnes River College. I know her as an avid reader who loves all books and, even with her busy academic schedule, manages to fit in some reading for pleasure. Her 2010 reading list, which she shared with her students and colleagues, shows a diverse approach to books, covering both academic and non-academic readings, national and international authors. I am familiar with some of the titles on her list, some of which I enjoyed too: African Roar , which I co-edited with Ivor W. Hartmann, Cutting for Stone , I do Not Come to You by Chance , which is going to be the CRC campus book next year; this means a lot of people at the college will be reading it at the same time (more on this later), An Elegy for Easterly, Half of a Yellow Sun, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian , and I see that she also read Through the ...