Think Wrap Up: Twitterchat Reading Recommendations
A fantastic twitter book group was held last Tuesday to chat about March’s topic of #think. Here is a collection of the reading suggestions from all our participants. And a wonderfully long list of discussion points to make you all think! Thanks to all who joined in the conversation!
Discussion points: 
New ideas, international connections, global connector
Food allergies and cooking accordingly
Food writing – finding the missing ingredient
Long form reading
Brevity
Validating reading 
@lalarkinauthor fiction stimulates us to ask our role in society & question our values
@ellenforsyth Poetry is also great for #think for example the bareness of haiku with so many ideas and images in such a small space
Chick lit is social commentary on modern life “Do we really need that many shoes”, pressures on women in modern life, relationship issues
Garden design informing environmental issues
The lyricist as storyteller, storytelling mechanisms
@lalarkinauthor Fiction can be a way of thinking about normally unbearable issues
@love2read Like the idea of books being safe places - #think they can also be a safe way of exploring difficult ideas
@Bookthingo For me, it’s feminism. Never had an interest until romance blogs #NYR12
exploring pinterest and tumblr options
@snailx @janholmquist @ellenforsyth love observing differences in reading preferences.U read Pepys in print whereas I read his tweets
Title/Authors: Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
The Help
How to fix copyright by William Patry
Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono
Mark Billingham’s Sleepyhead,
Never Let Me Go – ethical science
Carol Topolski’s Do no harm – ethical medicine, mental illness
The Genesis Flaw – ethics of science
Grisham’s 1988 Pelican Brief
Jose Saramago “Blindness”
Herman Hesse “Steppenwolf”
‘The Fault in our stars’ by John Green
Brave New World One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Debra Adelaide’s The household guide to dying
Fiona McGregor’s Indelible Ink
Biddulph’s Raising Boys
You are not so smart” book (& blog) & other pop. based science books on how brain works
Leet noobs by Mark Chen
George Orwell’s 1984
Murukami’s modern version 1Q84
‘Never Let Me Go’
Selznick’s Wonderstruck
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
The Baroque Cycle
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Lee Iacocca’s autobio
how to be a child’
Household Gods by Turtledove
microhistories like Mauve
Ripleys and Guiness books
dictionaries
The Surgeon of Crowthorne about Oxford Dictionary
Sheri S Tepper’s Sideshow
The Disappearing Spoon about history of the periodic table
Knight In Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux
Lynn Kurland’s time travel rom
Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Kristin Higgins’ The Next Best Thing
Greenwich by Charles Jennings
Can Reindeer Fly?The Science of Christmas by Roger Highfield
Lisa Walker’s Liar Bird
Gone with the wind
Kids:
How do you get the “little white dog” into the car? Where is that green sheep?
http://www.strid.dk/mmg-inside.html – any English translations available?
@wateryone aren’t the best children’s books the ones that work on multiple levels so that they can be enjoyed whatever age
Michael Stephen King
Jeannie Baker
Mo Willems
Selznick’s Wonderstruck
http://www.dpgreen.net/2012/03/27/think-a-book-review-of-my-green-day-by-melanie-walsh/
My Green Day by Melanie Wash
Periodicals:
New Scientist
Mad Magazines – subversive thinking
Dave Berg’s “The Lighter Side of…”
Web, Blogs, Bloggers, Tweet streams, Games:
http://writeonthefringes.blogspot.com.au/
http://www.readreactreview.com/ @readreactreview
#ausallergy
http://love2read2012.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/think-outside-the-book/ Reading outside of the book
twitter, rss, and apps like pulse and flip all help to #think as to the ideas shared in those tools inform etc #nyr12
There are also survival reads for #think like road signs, train notices and shopping lists -well you don’t want to run out of things #nyr12
@boingboing
Twitter – information, concise delivery of message in 140 characters
Overseas Tweeters
Wikipedia
http://www.grandpurlbaa.com/www.grandpurlbaa.com/Moi.html
@samuelpepys
http://www.materialobsession.typepad.com/
Authors:
Stieg Larsson – abuse of women
Jodi Picoult – - ethical issues
Michael Wood’ – history
Scriptwriters/TV/Movies/Plays/Music Lyrics:
Tom Stoppard
The Big Bang Theory
System of the Down
The Streets
Ben Folds
Stephen Merrits lyrics for Magnetic Fields
Poetry, haiku
Ben Folds/Nick Hornby
Levi Johnston
read lots of history during The Tudors
David Starkey titles about the Tudors
This Means War, marketed as Spy vs Spy
TV advertising
Cavafy’s Ithaca http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=74&cat=1
