Clark Faculty & Staff Book Picks-Part 2!

When you’re looking for an interesting book to read it is helpful to get a great recommendation! We’re again featuring book picks from Clark faculty and staff! This week we are featuring recommendations from STEM instructor Erin Harwood and Art instructor Lisa Staley.

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STEM instructor Erin Harwood recommends The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.

“This is a book to read for pleasure and great enjoyment!  It is a unique and delightful story about a special circus and the competition between two dueling magicians.  Imaginative and at times thrilling, it is a book you can barely put down.  The circus has always intrigued many a person, and the behind the scenes details and information about the performers lives and interactions really add depth and interest to the story.  I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys intriguing stories with a touch of mystery and excitement”!

Art instructor Lisa Staley recommends The World of Yesterday / Die Welt von Gestern by Stefan Zweig.

“On a sunny day in late June 1914, Jewish author Stefan Zweig sat in a spa garden just outside of Vienna listening to lilting music and reading a book. Suddenly, everything stopped. It was announced that Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian Empire, had been assassinated. You can read his eyewitness account of events that gutted the security of Europe and led to the madness of World War I, the rise of his fellow Austrian, Adolf Hitler, and then to World War II.

This is my favorite book, because my grandpa was born one year before the author was in the same area of the Austrian Empire. I feel as though I see something of his life play out as I read Stefan Zweig’s The World From Yesterday / Die Welt von Gestern. Zweig is able to lift these events to a level of vitality and poignancy that is unmatched . . . because he saw them for himself.”