Week 13: Monday 29th March, 2010

So this week's entry is a little late. A friend of mine is helping organize the Art for Aids fundraiser at Queen's, so I spent part of the weekend combing through my pictures for ones to donate to them. The final album is available here, and a link to the Art for Aids fundraiser is available here. For those in the Queen's/Kingston area, I highly recommend checking it out.

So a little background to this week's shot. One thing I used to do voraciously when I was a wee young whippersnapper was read. Reading for pleasure was replaced with "Sibley's Field Guide to Birds," "Ecology and Field Biology," "Animal Behaviour and Neuroethology," and my personal favourite, "Fundamentals of Biostatistics" which was a riveting and compelling story of the little p-value that could.

Anyhow. I've started to read more lately, but, like my taste in music, my taste in books is all over the place. So I laughed when I saw this on my bookshelf.



From left-right: Something Permanent (Walker Evans, Cynthia Rylant), Many Are Called (Walker Evans), The Defector (Daniel Silva), Lincoln Revisited (Harold Holzer), The Inferno of Dante (translation by Robert Pinsky), Stones into Schools (Greg Mortenson), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith), Moby Dick (Herman Melville). Between the 14th century Italian poety, 1930's photography, life lessons from the 16th U.S. President and the simple fact that "a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains," sometimes I wonder how I ended up with this eclectic collection of books.