Fri, 2008 Oct 31
Books I'd Like My Children to Read
My wife is about five months pregnant. It’s a boy. We’re calling him Biscuit until we make a final naming decision (and probably after that). Anyway, I was pondering if there’s any particular books I’d like him (and potential future children) to read, in addition to the Bible. Here’s a few.
- A Miracle, A Universe which is about a couple of groups of people who seek to “settle accounts with tortures” as the subtitle suggest, in Latin America after the dictatorships of the sixties and seventies or so. It’s a way to illustrate how awful humans can be, and how important it is not to assume torture is somehow okay, without them reading or seeing something (probably graphic) on torture itself.
- The Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki. Good information on how to think about money.
- Financial Peace by Dave Ramsey. More good information on money, but from the perspective of one who wants to have comfort and security, without necessarily putting the work into wealth building.
- Pride and Prejudice. It’s just a good book. And odds of any of our children not reading it or having it read to them is pretty low anyway.
- The Unvanquished by William Faulkner. I don’t really know why I think this would be such a useful novel to read, but I really do. I guess because it displays very clearly the foolish things we let divide us from others.
- The US Constitution.
