My Reading List
My reading list is longer right now than it has been in quite a while. These are the books that I will be reading in the near future:
Death from the Skies by Philip Plait
This is a wonderful, wonderful book, the second from the Bad Astronomer and JREF President, Dr Phil Plait. The book goes through all the ways that the universe can kill us. How can you complain about a book where the first sentence is "The universe is trying to kill you"?
Bad Astronomy by Philip Plait
His first book. Debunks the moon landing hoax and other misuses of astronomy.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks
I'm actually halfway through this. The Plait books interrupted me, and I'll be getting back to it forthwith. Especially since I borrowed this book from lilysea. It's a fascinating look at the many strange ways that the human brain can go wrong.
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
I really have no idea what this book is about, but it keeps getting recommended to me by a wide variety of people, and I recently saw it in Borders and purchased it, along with...
The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams
His last book. In fact, this is a collection of the things that were found on Adams' hard drive after he died - including 11 chapters of a third Dirk Gently novel. I'd been meaning to read this for some time.
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
The next book. I'm enjoying TMWMHWFAH, so I expect I'll enjoy this too. Also borrowed from lilysea.
I've also ordered from Fishpond Malcom Gladwell's latest book Outliers which should be arriving in about a week (as opposed to 6-8 weeks from Amazon). Thanks to wolfkit for recommending this site. I've loved both of Gladwell's other books, so there's no reason why I should have a problem with this one.
That should keep me going for a while, don't you think?
Death from the Skies by Philip Plait
This is a wonderful, wonderful book, the second from the Bad Astronomer and JREF President, Dr Phil Plait. The book goes through all the ways that the universe can kill us. How can you complain about a book where the first sentence is "The universe is trying to kill you"?
Bad Astronomy by Philip Plait
His first book. Debunks the moon landing hoax and other misuses of astronomy.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks
I'm actually halfway through this. The Plait books interrupted me, and I'll be getting back to it forthwith. Especially since I borrowed this book from lilysea. It's a fascinating look at the many strange ways that the human brain can go wrong.
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
I really have no idea what this book is about, but it keeps getting recommended to me by a wide variety of people, and I recently saw it in Borders and purchased it, along with...
The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams
His last book. In fact, this is a collection of the things that were found on Adams' hard drive after he died - including 11 chapters of a third Dirk Gently novel. I'd been meaning to read this for some time.
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
The next book. I'm enjoying TMWMHWFAH, so I expect I'll enjoy this too. Also borrowed from lilysea.
I've also ordered from Fishpond Malcom Gladwell's latest book Outliers which should be arriving in about a week (as opposed to 6-8 weeks from Amazon). Thanks to wolfkit for recommending this site. I've loved both of Gladwell's other books, so there's no reason why I should have a problem with this one.
That should keep me going for a while, don't you think?