Blog: A Book-Log

Books I’ve read recently…

August 2010

• Douglas Crockford, Javascript: The Good Parts (O’Reilly: 2008)

July 2010

• Chris Anderson, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (Hyperion: 2006)
• Vance Trimble, Overnight Success: Federal Express & Frederick Smith, Its Renegade Creator (Crown Publishers, Inc: 1993)
• Justin Smith, Inside Windows Communication Foundation (Microsoft Press: 2007)
• Kevin Kline, SQL in a Nutshell (O’Reilley: 2001)

June 2010

• Adam Nathan, Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed (Sams Publishing: 2007)

May 2010

• Ellen Davis, Getting Involved With God: Rediscovering the Old Testament (Cowley Publications: 2001)
• Bob Pritchett, Fire Someone Today: And Other Surprising Tactics for Making Your Business a Success (Nelson Business: 2006)

March 2010

• Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains; The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House: 2004)

February 2010

• C. Leonard Allen & Danny Gray Swick, Participating in God’s Life (New Leaf Books: 2001)

December 2009

• Masereel, Ward, Patri, Hyde, Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels (Firefly Books: 2007)
• Frank Miller, Sin City (Dark Horse Comics: 1992)
• Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale, Batman: The Long Halloween (DC Comics: 1998)
• David Braun, Gathering Speed – Tales of Motorcycles and Life (Bike Manuscript Works: 1996)
• Cory Doctorow, Makers (Tor: 2009)

November 2009

• Krzysztof Cwalina & Brad Abrams, Framework design guidelines: conventions, idioms, and patterns for reusable .NET libraries (Addison-Wesley: 2006)
• Jeffrey Richter, Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming (Microsoft Press: 2002)
• Aryeh Rubinstein, ed., Popular Judaica Library: Hasidism (Keter Books: 1975)

October 2009

• C.J. Cherryh, The Paladin (Baen Books: 1988)
• Henry M. Holden, FBI 100 Years: An Unofficial History (Zenith Press: 2008)
• Peter Bunton, Cell Groups and House Churches: What History Teaches Us (House to House Publications: 2001)
• Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Del Rey Books: 1968)

September 2009

• Neil Gaiman, American Gods (Harper Collins: 2001)

August 2009

• J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Aurthur A. Levine Books: 1998)
• J. H. Sweet, Cinnabar and the Island of Shadows (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky: 2008)
• Joseph J. Keenan, Breaking Out of Beginner’s Spanish (University of Texas Press: 1994)

July 2009

• D. S. Sarma, A Primer of Hinduism (Sri Ramakrishna Math: 1981)
• Hal Runkel, ScreamFree Parenting: Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool (Oakmont Publishing, LLC: 2005)
• Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (Simon & Schuster Paperbacks: 1955)

March 2009

• Richard M. Stallman, Free Software Free Society (Gnu Press: 2002)
• Mark Lutz & David Ascher, Learning Python (O’Reilly: 1999)
• Jack R. Reese, The Body Broken: Embracing the Peace of Christ in a Fragmented Church (Leafwood Publishers: 2005)

January 2009

• James D. G. Dunn, The Theology of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians (Cambridge University Press: 1993)

December 2008

• Frederick Buechner, Brendan (HarperSanFrancisco: 1987)

November 2008

• Ann Rinaldi, Wolf by the Ears (Scholastic, Inc: 1991)
• Frederick Buechner, On the Road with the Archangel (HarperSanFrancisco: 1997)

September 2008

• William P. Young, The Shack (Windblown Media: 2008)
• Charles Stross, Halting State (Ace Hardcover: 2007)

July 2008

• Cory Doctorow, Little Brother (Available online under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License: 2007)
• Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (Dell Publishing Co., Inc.: 1969)
• Noah Gordon, The Last Jew (Sphere: 2000)
• Robert Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (Ace: 1998)

June 2008

• David Flanagan & Yukihiro Matsumoto, The Ruby Programming Language
  (O’Reilly Media, Inc.: 2008)

March 2008

• Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird (Dell Publishing Co., Inc.: 1979)

February 2008

• Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Avon Books: 1951)
• Issac Asimov, Foundation and Empire (Ballantine Books: 1952)

January 2008

• Bruce Schneier, Beyond Fear (Copernicus Books: 2003)

December 2007

• Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality (Harper & Row: 1973)
• David Schnarch, Passionate Marriage (Owl Books: 1998)
• Joshua Bloch, Effective Java: Programming Language Guide (Sun Microsystems, Inc: 2001)

November 2007

• N. T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God (Fortress Press: 1992)
• Mike Gancarz, Linux and the Unix Philosophy (Digital Press: 2003)

September 2007

• Norman J. Hyne, Nontechnical Guide to Petroleum Geology, Exploration, Drilling, and Production, 2d ed. (PennWell Corporation: 2001)

August 2007

• Allan Vermeulen, et al., The Elements of Java Style (Cambridge University Press: 2000)
• Kent Beck, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2d ed. (Addison-Wesley: 2005)
• Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey (HarperSanFrancisco: 1991)

“But when it comes to putting broken lives back together—when it comes, in religious terms, to the saving of souls—the human best tends to be at odds with the holy best. To do for yourself the best that you have it in you to do—to grit your teeth and clench your fists in order to survive the world at its harshest and worst—is, by that very act, to be unable to let something be done for you and in you that is more wonderful still… You can survive on your own… but you cannot become human on your own.” (p. 46)

“God’s coming is always unforeseen, I think, and the reason, if I had to guess, is that if he gave us anything much in the way of advance warning, more often than not we would have made ourselves scarce long before he got there.” (p. 104)

Last sentence: “Above all, never question the truth beyond all understanding and surpassing all other wonders that in the long run nothing, not even the world, not even ourselves, can separate us forever from that last and deepest love that glimmers in our dusk like a pearl, like a face.” (p. 112)

• Thomas Nagel, What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy (Oxford University Press: 1987)

July 2007

• Metsker & Wake, Design Patterns in Java (Addison-Wesley: 2006)

June 2007

• Kent Beck, Test-Driven Development: By Example (Addison-Wesley: 2003)

May 2007

• Frank Herbert, Dune
• Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

April 2007

• Lerdorf & Tatroe, Programming PHP (O’Reilly: 2002)
• Welling & Thomson, MySQL Tutorial (MySQL Press: 2004)
• Michael Hernandez, Database Design for Mere Mortals, 2d ed. (Addison-Wesley: 2003)
• Peter van der Linden, Just Java 2, 6th ed. (Sun Microsystems Press: 2006)
• Sierra & Bates, Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5: Study Guide (McGraw-Hill/Osborne: 2006)

March 2007

• Steve McConnell, Code Complete, 2d ed. (Microsoft Press: 2004)
• Hunt & Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer: from journeyman to master (Addison-Wesley: 2000)
• Jeffrey Friedl, Mastering Regular Expressions, 3d ed. (O’Reilly: 2006)