This where I will collect the books recently released that catch my interest, including where I heard about them and my notes about them when I finally read them. You may also want to check out my older lists.
Interesting books of 2008
Interesting books of 2007
Fiction of various flavors:
| Read so far | |
| The Revolution Business, by Charles Stross | |
| To be read | |
| Essential Pleasures: a new anthology of poems to read aloud, edited by Robert Pinsky | |
| review on All Things Considered among others | The Magicians, by Lev Grossman |
Non-Fiction:
| Read so far | |
| interview on KUOW Weekday | The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, by Ken Robinson |
| interview on On Point | Supersense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable, by Bruce M. Hood |
| The Long Thaw: how humans are changing the next 100,000 years of Earth’s climate, by David Archer | |
| To be read | |
| interview on All Things Considered | The Superorganism : the beauty, elegance, and strangeness of insect societies, by Bert Hölldobler and E.O. Wilson |
| NY Times review | Prisoner of the State, by Zhao Ziyang |
| wasn’t paying attention when I first heard about it | Rapt : Attention and the Focused Life, by Winifred Gallagher |
| Colbert bump | Cheating Death, by Sanjay Gupta |
| Won’t be read | |
| No | Entry! |
