Consider the Lobster: essays by David Foster Wallace
Lots of Malcolm Gladwell:
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A Guide to Dashboard Design, by Juice Analytics
Juice also has a very cool poster with an elegant overview of dashboard design here.
Showing posts with label my recent reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label my recent reading. Show all posts
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Thursday, September 23, 2010
An essay/blog post worth reading
My friend and guru Stephanie writes a wonderful blog called "Spiritual Evolution of the Bean." Go here for a wonderful essay about reading, books, and the Kindle.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
My recent–and recommended–reading
Fiction:
Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother. Excellent novel about 17-year-old who fights back against the state after a terrorist attack. Great cryptography and hacking details. The TCCD Southeast Library has it.
McCall Smith, Alexander. 44 Scotland Street novels. These were and are serialized (just as Dickens was!) in The Scotsman.
Jerome, Jerome K. Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).Originally published in 1889, but I just now read it.
Also see Willis below for her tribute to it.
Mysteries:
Airth, Rennie. Anything.
Cleverly, Barbara.
Finch, Charles. Anything.
King, Laurie R. The Sherlock Holmes/Mary Russell series, which just keeps getting better.
Winspear, Jacqueline. Anything.
Poetry:
Hafiz, as rendered by Daniel Ladinsky. These are not literal, but marvelously modern, idiomatic re-creations of Hafiz that will lift your spirits.
Science Fiction:
Willis, Connie. Anything, but especially To Say Nothing of the Dog, Bellwether, and, if you can find it, All Seated on the Ground (Christmas novella about aliens that will crack you up.)
Non-fiction:
de Blij, Harm. The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape.
Marino, Gordon. "Kierkegaard on the Couch." A boxing coach and philosophy professor, Dr. Marino can make even the impenetrable absolutely clear–and entertain you while doing so.
McDonald, Sarah. Holy Cow. An Australian woman’s memoir of living in India. Funny and enlightening.
Mehta, Gita. Snakes and Ladders. Wonderfully funny essays about her native India.
Mortenson, Greg. Three Cups of Tea. Building schools in Afghanistan.
Trapani, Gina. Upgrade Your Life (previously published as Lifehacker; by the founder of the blog of the same name).
Weller, Anthony. Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road. A modern adventure through India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother. Excellent novel about 17-year-old who fights back against the state after a terrorist attack. Great cryptography and hacking details. The TCCD Southeast Library has it.
McCall Smith, Alexander. 44 Scotland Street novels. These were and are serialized (just as Dickens was!) in The Scotsman.
Jerome, Jerome K. Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).Originally published in 1889, but I just now read it.
Also see Willis below for her tribute to it.
Mysteries:
Airth, Rennie. Anything.
Cleverly, Barbara.
Finch, Charles. Anything.
King, Laurie R. The Sherlock Holmes/Mary Russell series, which just keeps getting better.
Winspear, Jacqueline. Anything.
Poetry:
Hafiz, as rendered by Daniel Ladinsky. These are not literal, but marvelously modern, idiomatic re-creations of Hafiz that will lift your spirits.
Science Fiction:
Willis, Connie. Anything, but especially To Say Nothing of the Dog, Bellwether, and, if you can find it, All Seated on the Ground (Christmas novella about aliens that will crack you up.)
Non-fiction:
de Blij, Harm. The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough Landscape.
Marino, Gordon. "Kierkegaard on the Couch." A boxing coach and philosophy professor, Dr. Marino can make even the impenetrable absolutely clear–and entertain you while doing so.
McDonald, Sarah. Holy Cow. An Australian woman’s memoir of living in India. Funny and enlightening.
Mehta, Gita. Snakes and Ladders. Wonderfully funny essays about her native India.
Mortenson, Greg. Three Cups of Tea. Building schools in Afghanistan.
Trapani, Gina. Upgrade Your Life (previously published as Lifehacker; by the founder of the blog of the same name).
Weller, Anthony. Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road. A modern adventure through India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
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