Reading - Read

The Framingham library has an option on their website to track your reading selections. I flipped it on the end of last year. I read a lot.

OK, I listen a lot. Most of my reading is in the car with audio books during the hour or so each way for the work commute. Without the distraction, Road Rage would take over.

Here is the recent list with some commentary:

• Eldest / Christopher Paolini.
  Not sure I could recommend either the books or the movie.
  
  
• Building the data warehouse / W.H. Inmon.
  (Oops, a work related book here)
  
  
• Mountains beyond mountains [sound recording] / Tracy Kidder.
  Reminds you that you have not done anything of meaning in your life.
  

• Life interrupted [sound recording] : [the unfinished monologue] / Spalding Gray.
  The work in progress when he committed suicide. Laugh and cry.

• Unleashing the soul of money [sound recording] : [finding sufficiency, freedom, and purpose through your relationship with money] / Lynne Twist.
  I chew up personal finance books from time to time. This one is rank. About half of the audio recording is a guided meditation about money. Honest.
  

• Barracuda 945 [sound recording] / by Patrick Robinson, read by David McCallum.
  Submarine stories - love 'em. This one is so-so, but read by the guy from Man from U.N.C.L.E. Not that on, the other one.
  

• Why do I love these people? [sound recording] : [honest and amazing stories of real families] / Po Bronson.
  I have read all of his books. 'nuf said.
  

• State of fear [sound recording] / Michael Crichton.
  Good fact/fiction story about global warming - with guns!
  

• No god but God : the origins, evolution, and future of Islam / Reza Aslan.
  Islam / Charles Clark.
  I had 3 or 4 books on Islam checked out for my discussion group at church. The best one was actually a text book for middle school kids.
  
  
• Something rotten [sound recording] : [a Thursday Next novel] / Jasper Fforde.
  Both the Nursery Crime and Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde are fantastic. Quick wit, twisted, and juicy. Highly recommended.
  
  
• Timeline [sound recording] / by Michael Crichton.
  A practical application for those quantum computers we have lying around - time travel.
  
  
• Holidays on ice [sound recording] / David Sedaris.
  Ha Ha Ha - some of his Ho Ho Ho stories, including "Dinah the Christmas Whore".
  
  
• A briefer history of time [sound recording] / Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow.
  Hmm, maybe a quantum physics theme developing in my reading habits?
  
  
• The old man and the sea [sound recording] / by Ernest Hemingway.
  
  
• The life and times of the thunderbolt kid [sound recording] : [a memoir] / Bill Bryson.
  Also have read almost everything by Bill Bryson. One of his best. Highly recommended.
  
  
• The Trudeau vector [sound recording] / Juris Jurjevics.
  Russian subs, Arctic romance, biological warfare. Recommended.
  
  
• For one more day [sound recording] / Mitch Albom.
  Finishing this one in the next day or so. Read his other 2 big hits. They all make me a little verklempt.

• The automatic millionaire homeowner [sound recording] : [a powerful plan to finish rich in real estate] / David Bach.
  On deck. Another personal finance chewy.

• The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors : [the extraordinary World War II story of the Navy's finest hour] / James Hornfischer.
  A recommendation from Scoots Hambuli in response to my recommendation of "In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis".
  

• The number [sound recording] : [a completely different way to think about the rest of your life] / Lee Eisenberg.
  Another personal finance book. Yawn. Also includes a play on Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principal, another Quantum Physics reference.
  

There were also some music CD's in the list. As you can see I like The Shins.

• Oh inverted world [sound recording] / The Shins.
  
• Prolonging the magic [sound recording] / Cake.
  
• Chutes too narrow [sound recording] / The Shins.
  
• Wincing the night away [sound recording] / The Shins.
  
• For me, it's you [sound recording] / Train.
  
• American V [sound recording] : a hundred highways / Johnny Cash.