Jason's Bookshelf
The way I was raised, it's always good to be well Read...
Here's some suggestions from my favorites. If you have the time,
look 'em up. You might enjoy them.
Mostly True: Collected Stories and Drawings - Brian Andreas
Little poems, and anecdotes that remind you that magic is where you find it.
Griffin and Sabine trilogy - Nick Bantock
A little bit of mystery and a lot of beatiful art in the form of correspondence.
Bloom County Babylon - Berke Breathed
For those times that you want to lean back and laugh at the ridiculous world
we live in.
Beyond the Hero - Allan B. Chinen
Folk tales and commentaries about men who choose to go beyond the hero/patriarch archetype.
Travels - Michael Crichton
The travels begin geographically and slowly move inwards.
the Sandman: Brief lives - Gaiman, Thompson, and Locke
Questing, dialouges, and philosiphizing of the characters in Gaiman's new mythology
Long Quiet Highway - Natalie Goldberg
The author's own journey to learn to write and and care for her soul
Uncle Remus Tales - Joel Chandler Harris
Perhaps no longer PC, but still wonderful children's stories
Dictionary Schmictionary - Paul Hoffman and Matt Freedman
A guide to Yiddish for the Goyim ;-)
Manitous: the Spiritual World of the Ojibwe - Basil Johnston
Stories of the Northeastern Indians as told by a storyteller who believes his tales
The Way Things Work - David Macaulay and Neil Ardley
It's amazing what wooly mammoths understand, but we don't.
The Earth is Enough - Harry Middleton
A book of childhood memories in a rural mountain town.
Diaries of John Muir - John Muir
Growing up, learning lessons the hard way, and travels on foot by the first conservationist.
Little - David Truer
A winding plot merely there so you can get to know the characters inside
and out.
The Foxfire Series - Edited by Eliot Wigginton and His Students
Appalacian knowledge warehouse... blacksmithing, tanning, farming, ranching,
butter-churning, toy-making, log cabin building, storytelling, etc. How-to's
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein
Still "the" classic of Fantasy writing.
Calvin and Hobbes -Bill Waterson
Smile and remember what it was like to be a kid.