Book List
9. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
A wonderfully researched biography, authorized by Jobs but not under his control; he never read it. It confirmed my view of Jobs: someone I greatly admired, but not someone I would ever want to work for. What did surprise me was Isaacson's sympathetic treatment of Bill Gates, and a moving scene near the end of the book where Gates visits Jobs for a last conversation in the months before Jobs's passing.
10. The Early Middle Ages: audio course by Phillip Daileader
11. Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card
This book is an odd one; while it's the latest in Card's "Shadow" series (which follows Bean, Ender's right hand man in the years following Ender's Game), this volume is short, straddling the divide between a long novella and a short novel. There are two plotlines here: the story of Bean's children, and an Arthur C Clark-esque plot involving a derelict Formic spaceship. There's not really enough plot to justify a longer novel, but the shortness of the book makes the character development that Bean's children go through far too abrupt.
12. The New Testament audio course by Bart Ehrman
A wonderfully researched biography, authorized by Jobs but not under his control; he never read it. It confirmed my view of Jobs: someone I greatly admired, but not someone I would ever want to work for. What did surprise me was Isaacson's sympathetic treatment of Bill Gates, and a moving scene near the end of the book where Gates visits Jobs for a last conversation in the months before Jobs's passing.
10. The Early Middle Ages: audio course by Phillip Daileader
11. Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card
This book is an odd one; while it's the latest in Card's "Shadow" series (which follows Bean, Ender's right hand man in the years following Ender's Game), this volume is short, straddling the divide between a long novella and a short novel. There are two plotlines here: the story of Bean's children, and an Arthur C Clark-esque plot involving a derelict Formic spaceship. There's not really enough plot to justify a longer novel, but the shortness of the book makes the character development that Bean's children go through far too abrupt.
12. The New Testament audio course by Bart Ehrman