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There’s a lot to be excited about at NAU-Yavapai this week- We just launched our totally revamped and totally awesome Website, our students and faculty are wrapping up the Spring II Session with enthusiasm to spare, and we have a whole new cohort of incoming students prepping to join our Summer Session in two weeks… Plus (and here’s the really fun part) we’re on the cusp of a two-week break that I am lovingly dubbing “Sprummer Break” (until someone comes up with a better name than that – please, someone?) And, since many of our students, faculty, and (hopefully) staff too, will be taking advantage of the beautiful Prescott Valley weather, we thought it fitting to offer up a list of “Must Reads” to accompany your lazy Sprummer Break days by the lake, the pool, or the spa. (* summaries re-posted from Amazon.com) Susan Johnstad reads A Prayer for Owen Meany every spring: Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend’s mom with a baseball and believes–accurately–that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John Irving’s novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mystic novel since Flannery O’Connor’s work. Irving fans will find much that is familiar: the New England prep-school-town setting, symbolic amputations of man and beast, the Garp-like unknown father of the narrator (Owen’s orphaned best friend), the rough comedy. The scene Read more »
