I just finished Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, a collection of short stories mostly about Indian Americans. You’re, right, I have been reading a lot lately. Anyway, I liked this book a lot. It’s the kind of book that when you read that a character is yelling, you wince because it sounds loud. I [...]
I just finished Getting Real, a book by 37 Signals which explains a “smaller, faster, better way to build software”. For those who do not know, 37 Signals is a fairly successful company that provides several web applications for small businesses and individuals. In the book, they explain the philosophy that has led to their [...]
How to Win Friends & Influence People: Dale Carnegie: Books
ISBN: 0671723650ISBN-13: 9780671723651
A couple of months ago I got a mysterious package with a company as the return address. I knew that the post office had searched it for bombs, so I wasn’t worried when I opened it. The package contained a book called How [...]
Snow by Orhan Pamuk (On Amazon)
I read Snow a while ago but never got around to writing a review, in part becuase it was before I started writing again and in part because I didn’t have a lot to say. The novel tells the story of a small town in Turkey, discussing themes like Islamism [...]
the curious incident of dog the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon (On Amazon)
I just finished the curious incident of dog the dog in the night-time. It tells the story of a boy who has “developmental issues” which I took to be autism. The autistic boy authors the book, telling what might otherwise [...]
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill
ISBN: 0-385-49554-4 (On Amazon)
Cahill takes you through 5 pillars of Greek life as it has shaped the way we as Westerners live today in this history of all of Greek civilization.
He talks about current Western culture and only occasionally talks about the U.S. He takes [...]
These last two weeks have been (thank God) much more relaxed than any two weeks I can remember in a long time. I have, as a result, returned to reading for pleasure.
I rarely remember how much pleasure I actually do derive from reading. I usually store it more as a little saying my mom made [...]
Innumeracy
My professor just said, in repsonse to a comment by a student, that he was 96% right. The porfessor then asked a follow up, which the student couldn’t answer, and he said, ‘You’re four tenths away from there. Or 4%’. Now it is possible and even likely that that was a slip [...]