May 9, 2012

A Stolen Life: A Memoir - by Jaycee Dugard (2011)

The story of an eleven year old girl who is kidnapped and held as a sex slave for eighteen years. I got this book for research into the character, Philip Garrido, who kidnapped Jaycee. I thought he'd be the right "psycho" for a story I'd like to write someday, not about a psycho, but about a "John-Walsh" character who incounters a psycho like Garrido and learns from him that they aren't so different.

Magic and Mystery in Tibet - by: Alexandra David-Neel (1932, 2014)

This is one of those rare books that exposes another culture in a way that really opens it up an lets the reader glimpse for themselves what...