I picked up two more books in the past two days, but here’s what’s on the nightstand now:<\/p>\n
Failure is not An Option:\u00a0 Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond<\/em> by Gene Kranz.\u00a0 I’ve met Mr. Kranz and was fortunate enough to get a personalized, autographed copy of this book.\u00a0 But, more importantly, reading about the rapid development process of meeting President Kennedy’s challenge to put a man on the moon is engaging.\u00a0 This is the America I’d like to think we still were (but I’ve only seen glimmers of it in recent years).<\/p>\n The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain:\u00a0 A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence<\/em>, by Betty Edwards<\/p>\n New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook:\u00a0 Guided Practice in the Five Basic Skills of Drawing<\/em>, by Betty Edwards<\/p>\n The Mansions of Philosophy:\u00a0 A Survey of Human Life and Destiny<\/em> by Will Durant.\u00a0 Although published in 1929, this volume is remarkably refreshing and contemporary.\u00a0 Simply fascinating reading.<\/p>\n Logic for Dummies<\/em> by Mark Zegarelli.<\/p>\n There are more, but those are the ones I’m actively reading.\u00a0 The two newbies?\u00a0 I picked up Category 7<\/em> by Bill Evans and Marianna Jameson and Agnes and the Hitman<\/em> by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer.<\/p>\n What are you reading?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I picked up two more books in the past two days, but here’s what’s on the nightstand now: Failure is not An Option:\u00a0 Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz.\u00a0 I’ve met Mr. Kranz and was fortunate enough to get a personalized, autographed copy of …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15208,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/15208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}