Tag Archives: reading
“Founders at Work” by Jessica Livingston
Read from April to May 2007. This is a collection of 32 interviews with founders from recent technology startups. The book is well written and Livingston speaks enough of the technical language to ask the right questions. This book fules … Continue reading
“Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” by Jim Gray
Read from February to March 2007. This self-help book on relationships is interesting, but many of the things discussed have proliferated into common society now. There still are techniques mentioned that I found somewhat helpful. As an engagement present this … Continue reading
“Transmission” by Hari Kunzru
Read in February 2007 (actually on the flight home from India on February 24, 2007). This is a fast-paced modern technologically savvy story about how we are all connected, whether we like it or not. Kunzru writes authoritatively enough to … Continue reading
“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini
Read from Janauary to February 2007. This is a sweet and emotionally charged story of a man coming to terms with mistakes in his youth while describing Kabul pre Russian invasion. This story has several themes that are wound together … Continue reading
“Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village” by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Read in December 2006 to January 2007.This is the story of a woman who lived in an Iraqi village for just about two years in the 1950s. She was accompanying her husband who was a sociologist. The story goes from … Continue reading
“Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything” by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
(Note: I decided, though grammatically incorrect, to no longer italicize the title of each book. I was doing this manually by inserting HTML tags into the page, which caused the W3C to complain. I have finally decided that I will … Continue reading
