For those who are new ... we discuss books. I list what I'm reading, and people comment with what they're reading. Sometimes, on Sundays, I post a special edition on a particular genre or topic.
cfk has Bookflurries on Wednesday nights, with links to lots of other diaries about books and reading on daily Kos .
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ADDED NOTE: I haven't been around dkos much ... nothing against the place, I just got kind of tired of it. I'll probably be back to my usual state, but only if dkos4 is better than I think it's going to be
Just finished
Treasure Hunt by John Lescroart. At the start of this mystery, one of the leaders of San Francisco's philanthropic community has been killed. Who would want to kill such a man? Wyatt Hunt and his team of private investigators are hired to investigate and it turns out that a lot of people would want to. Lescroart is a veteran of this sort of novel, and he continues to do it very well. Full review
Now reading
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the dark ages by Chris Wickham. A really good history of Europe and western Asia, from 400 to 1000 AD.
This one is more or less on hold. I need to pay more attention to it to keep track of all the unfamiliar names.
The Great SF stories volume 1: 1939 ed. by Isaac Asimov and Martin Greenberg. I have this whole series on my shelf and I think I will re-read them
The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton. Far future science fiction of the space opera variety. Just started, but I am putting this on hold a bit.
Best Writing on Mathematics 2010 by Mircea Picci. A collection of articles about mathematics. Most of them are really great. Math lovers will want this one.
Seeing Further: The story of science, discovery and genius at the Royal Society ed. by Bill Bryson. A collection of essays about the Royal Society. Bryson wrote brief introductions to each.
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases ed. by Kahneman, Slovic and Tversky. A collection of now classic works on how people reason under uncertainty.
A re-read of Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov. The second in the original Foundation series. My review of the first one is here Foundation
Just started
Washington: A life which I am reading on my new Kindle 2 (my old Kindle broke). So far, it's living up to the hugely favorable reviews, although it's a bit repetitive about some aspects of Washington's personality.
A re-read of Distraction by Bruce Sterling. Cyberpunk SF. Very good.
And some technical books for work:
Introduction to Statistical Mediation Analysis by David MacKinnon
and
Foundations of Factor Analysis by Stanley Mulaik