What We're Reading (Staff and Friends)

Heart House is a learning community for everyone -- children, staff and volunteers -- and as such, it attracts life-long learners and readers to our tribe. Heart House staff members share what they're reading these days. Volunteers, friends, supporters: Add your comment below and share with the Heart House community what is on your bedside table.


Meredith Meisetschlaeger, Site Director, Heart House South
Milan Kundera’s Immortality. Although to be honest, I probably read The Berenstain Bears more than anything (haha).

Brittany Neighbors, Program Leader, Heart House South
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Next up: Soon I Will be Invincible by Austin Grossman

Diane Cannon, Executive Director
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant (THANK YOU TO KDK-HARMAN FOUNDATION FOR THIS GIFT!

Shelly-Marie Rios, Volunteer Coordinator
The World as a Total System by Kenneth E. Boulding
Foundation's Edge, Isaac Asimov
Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism, Harm de Blij
Insects of the World, Walter Linsenmaier
Peace Not Apartheid, Jimmy Carter
Latest edition of Elle Décor Italia magazine
Latest edition of Dwell magazine
And always my I Ching

Monica Armendariz, Program Director
Unfortunately, I am not reading anything right now. But when I travel to Ireland, I plan to start reading the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. Either that or I’ll pick back up on Book 13 of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series.

Megan Heredia, Development Coordinator
Just finished "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer (easy, guilty pleasure read....plus, I had to know what all the fuss was about!) and also "Year of Wonders" (amazing!) by Geraldine Brooks.Am currently reading "Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent"by Fred Burton (I love all of the conspiracy theory stuff...) and "How They Achieved: Stories of Personal Achievement and Business Success" by Lucinda Watson (very inspiring!)

Anna Land, Founder
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands
Some Assembly Required by Thom Singer (HH Board member)
Magazines: The Sun, Mental Floss, Lucky, Economist, Ode, Wired
The owner's manual to a yet-unused digital camera
What's next: Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell