{"id":157,"date":"2008-02-15T16:17:56","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T23:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/wp\/?p=157"},"modified":"2008-02-15T16:17:56","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T23:17:56","slug":"reconstructed-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/15\/reconstructed-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconstructed Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More list-spew for my own reference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Half of February<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Holy Fire<\/em>, by Bruce Sterling (in progress) <\/li>\n<li><em>Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition<\/em>, by Ian H. Witten and Eibe Frank **** <\/li>\n<li><em>Specimen Days : A Novel<\/em><br \/>\n<!--aoeui--><br \/>\nby Michael Cunningham ***1\/2 <\/li>\n<li><em>The Road<\/em>  by Cormac McCarthy **** <\/li>\n<li><em>Reality and Rationality<\/em> by Wesley C. Salmon ***** <\/li>\n<li><em>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/em> by Junot D&iacute;az ****1\/2 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>January<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Letters to a Young Mathematician<\/em>  by Ian Stewart ***1\/2 <\/li>\n<li><em>The Cult of the Amateur: How Today&#8217;s Internet is Killing Our Culture<\/em> by Andrew Keen ** <\/li>\n<li><em>My California: Journeys By Great Writers<\/em> by Donna Wares (Editor), Mark Arax (Editor) ***1\/2 <\/li>\n<li><em>Brasyl<\/em> by Ian McDonald ***** <\/li>\n<li><em>The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1<\/em> by Neil Gaiman **** <\/li>\n<li><em>Assassin&#8217;s Quest (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 3)<\/em> by Robin Hobb **** <\/li>\n<li><em>Royal Assassin (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 2)<\/em> by Robin Hobb **** <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>December<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Assassin&#8217;s Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1)<\/em><br \/>\n<!--aoeui--><br \/>\nby Robin Hobb **** <\/li>\n<li><em>The Yiddish Policemen&#8217;s Union<\/em>, by Michael Chabon ****  <\/li>\n<li><em>The Annotated Hobbit<\/em>, by J.R.R. Tolkien and Douglas A. Anderson         ***** <\/li>\n<li><em>The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition<\/em>, by Tom Shippey         ***1\/2 <\/li>\n<li><em>Motherless Brooklyn<\/em>, by Jonathan Lethem**** <\/li>\n<li><span id=\"lm_asinlink95\"><em>A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)<\/em>&nbsp;by George R.R. Martin <\/span>**** <\/li>\n<li><span id=\"lm_asinlink95\"><em>A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3)<\/em><\/span>&nbsp;by George R.R. Martin **** <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>November<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)<\/em>&nbsp;by George R.R. Martin **** <\/li>\n<li><em>A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)&nbsp;<\/em>by George R.R. Martin **** <\/li>\n<li><em>Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die <\/em>by Chip Heath and Dan Heath ****<\/li>\n<li><em>American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China<\/em> by Matthew Polly ***<\/li>\n<li><em>History of the Sierra Nevada<\/em> by Francis P. Farquhar         **** <\/li>\n<li><em>Middlesex: A Novel<\/em> by Jeffrey Eugenides **** <\/li>\n<li><em>Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them<\/em> by Francine Prose **** <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>October<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America<\/em> by Erik Larson***** <\/li>\n<li><em>The Android&#8217;s Dream<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Androids-Dream-John-Scalzi\/dp\/0765348284\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1203124239&amp;sr=1-1\" title=\"The Android's Dream\"><\/a>by John Scalzi****<\/li>\n<li><em>Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel <\/em>by Austin Grossman ***1\/2 <\/li>\n<li><em>Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories<\/em> by Chuck Palahniuk               ***1\/2 <\/li>\n<li><em>Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart<\/em> by Ian Ayres          ****<\/li>\n<li><em>Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge<\/em> by Cass R. Sunstein          ***1\/2 <\/li>\n<li><em>Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean<\/em> by Douglas Wolk          ***1\/2 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have only listed the ones I read cover-to-cover, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that I am still missing a few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More list-spew for my own reference. First Half of February Holy Fire, by Bruce Sterling (in progress) Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition, by Ian H. 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