Reading
Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is."
The Secret Ninja Cucumber Scrolls
David de Florinier
Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
Jenifer Tidwell
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Falconer
John Cheever
Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
Michael Hartl
Addison-Wesley Professional
isbn 9780321743121
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A Home for Mr. Easter
Brooke A. Allen
The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software
Jonathan Rasmusson
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
Barnes Noble Classics
isbn 9781593080297
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Yeah. No. Totally.
Lisa Wells
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bill Bryson
The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Margaret Atwood
It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken: A Picture Novella
Seth Seth
Interesting Women: Stories
Andrea Lee
Random House Trade Paperbacks
isbn 9780812966848
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Incendiary
Chris Cleave
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
Cassandra Clare
Margaret K. McElderry Books
isbn 9781416914280
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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Steve Krug
New Riders Publishing
isbn 9780321344755
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Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780374522834
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Casanova, Vol. 1: Luxuria
Matt Fraction
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life
Warren Ellis
Fables, Vol. 3: Storybook Love
Bill Willingham
Charles Dickens
Michael Slater
Yale University Press
isbn 9780300112078
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ext JS in Action
Jesús García
Specimen Days
Michael Cunningham
The Best American Short Stories 1988
Shannon Ravenel
The Beat: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.
Kip Lornell
University Press of Mississippi
isbn 9781604732412
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Dracula: A Classic Pop-Up Tale
Claire Bampton
Universe Publishing(NY)
isbn 9780789320506
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