10 books intro

From the plutonica.net blog, this sounds interesting:

Over at Rune Soup Gordon introduced a book game with the following guidelines:

How would you introduce someone to magic using only books? He or she has a month in a lake house and will read whatever you tell them in the exact order that you tell them to. Not even any peeking at other books on the list.

I'll have to think about my own response, but in the meantime I'm interested in yours. Feel free to exapnd a bit from "magic" per se into your personal spiritual path or whatever. (Note that the books certainly need not strictly be on such topics; Psyche's take started out with Baudelaire.)

things you can do about the oil spill

http://www.cheriepriest.com/2010/06/04/things-you-can-do-about-the-oil-spill/

I refused to buy Arco gas last week, the first time I've bought Shell in I don't know how long, since that one Arco station is my usual habit (and the cheapest local station). Not that their lack of my $20 is going to wound them deeply, but it's the principle of the thing. Another easy thing off the list is to donate to the National Wildlife Federation by texting "Wildlife" to 20222. There's other donation/volunteering links too.