SFMom challenged me (and a whole bunch of other readers) to navel gaze by picking 3 books lying around the house and sharing the names.

yeah. tough thing to do when most of the last 15 years of book collecting is safely living at my parents in Mexico. i guess what these books reveal are a bit of what i've been able to recollect of that me ...

1. Caravan of Dreams, by Idries Shah - actually a book i found at Cody's bookstore in Berkeley last summer when HJ, NS and I were living in the dorms, and represents the way of life I learned at home. when i looked for the link to the bookstore, i discovered it closed this past June! sigh.

2. Mujeres de ojos grandes, by Angeles Mastretta ... an old favorite book of short stories about amazing women - and it offered a new way of looking at 'lo cotidiano' ...

3. A tour of the calculus, by David Berlinksi ... kinda speaks for itself, and a most entertaining read (does that reveal that i am a geek?)

Hard to stay within three ... wonder what would happen if I had to pick one? Eeeck.