Blog: A Book-Log
Books I’ve read recently…
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)