1: Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton, 1911;This is probably one of my all time favorite books. Surprisingly, we didn’t learn too much in high school nor did we do much work, but we did read this book. I think it was my JR year and I just loved the love story, how the characters came full circle in ways they couldn’t have imagined.
2: Divine Comedy, Dante, Before I was ever thought of;Okay, so I haven’t read the entire catalogue, but these stories are great. If I ever need to evoke an emotion, whether it be a laugh or a tear, I can rely on these stories.
3: Reviving Ophelia,Mary Elizabeth Pipher, the 90’s;Any mother of a daughter should read this interesting journey which travels into the lives and minds of adolescent girls, and their development, stopping to visit the sometimes transparent parents who made them the way they are.
4: Not for Sale, David Batstone, 2007;WOW! Did this book open my eyes about human trafficking all over the world. Extreme stories of sex slaves and those on the move to abolish this cyclical system we “privileged” know too little about.
5: Any book I read with my kiddo is one of my favorites, and although I do not specifically have a favorite we read together because there are many, just having the memories of that time together is something I see as not meant for words.
Name: Jesse Pena, Jr.
Age: 58
City of Origin OR Current Residence: San Antonio, Tx
Occupation: SAISD Custodian
1: The Godfather, Mario Puzo
2: The Brothers Karmazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
3: Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
4: The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
5: Entertaining an Elephant, William McBride
Name: Becca Darnold Age: 33
City of Origin OR Current Residence: Clearwater, Fl
Occupation: teacher
1: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
2: The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, Douglas Adams
3: The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein
4: The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
5: The Concubine of Caldrone, Unsure
Name: Amy Hathorn
Age: 33
City of Origin OR Current Residence: San Antonio
Occupation: Human Being
1: Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961
2: Holy the Firm, Annie Dillard, 1984 / 1988
3: Translations [It's a play, so "book" might be a stretch???], Brian Friel, 1981
4: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, 1813 5: The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy, 1994
Name:
Tom Keene
Age:
74
City
of Origin OR Current Residence: SA TX
Occupation:
Poet-Activist
1:
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of
the World and What You Can Do About It Before It's Too Late, Thom Hartmann, 2000
2:
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic
Struggle to Abolish the Slave Trade, Eric
Metaxas, 2006
3:
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate
Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights,
Thom Hartmann, 1998
4:
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
5:
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Name:Amy Bearce
Age: 34
City of Origin OR Current Residence:San Antonio
Occupation:Stay at home mother and free lance writer
1: Expecting Adam,
Martha Beck, 1999
2:To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
3:A Circle of Quiet, Madeleine L’Engle, 1972
4:Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936
5:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, Lamott, 1999
I honestly really love Twilight and the
whole Harry Potter series, but I ran out of space!
Name: Jackie De Hon, Ph.D.
Age: Ooooo...70
Origin: Born and raised in Texas, currently in Canyon Lake
Occupation: retired from college teaching; freelance writer
1: The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, 1986
2: One Thousand White Women: The Journal of May Dodd, Jim Fergus, 1998
