Randall Stross's Planet Google reminds me a lot of an unfortunate encounter I had a long while ago with a distribution of
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11. Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers by Linda Holtzschue (nonfiction) - 13 Jul 2011For a book about color theory, this one was remarkably readable, written in a way that's usually quite easy to follow. Enough so that once I'd finished the chapters that were required reading for the course I purchased the book for, I ended up ( Read more... )

Title: The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Author: Mary E. Pearson
Year of Publication: 2008
Genre: YA, sci-fi
Pages: 265
First Line: "I used to be someone."

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Jenna Fox has just awoken from a year-long coma -- so she's been told -- and she is still recovering from the terrible accident that caused it. But what happened before ( Read more... )

Title: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Author: John Green and David Levithan
Year of Publication: 2010
Genre: YA
Pages: 310
First Line: "When I was little, my dad used to tell me, 'Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.'"

Summary: It's not that far from Evanston to Naperville, but Chicago ( Read more... )

Book #24 -- Martínez Alemán, Ana M. and Katherine Lynk Wartman, Online Social Networking on Campus: Understanding What Matters in Student Culture
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First line:"I'm a senior at Cesar Chavez high in San Francisco's sunny Mission district, and that makes me one of the most surveilled people in the world."
Summary: Fifteen minutes into the future, Little Brother is set in a surveillance state that emerges in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco. Narrator Marcus "W1n5t0n" Yallow's life ( Read more... )

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Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (Crime, Thriller, Mystery)

From the back of the book:

When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls on it's head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the ( Read more... )

So, I am house-sitting, and as such, have an extra-long commute every morning and afternoon until January 5. It's boring ( Read more... )