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BooksI love reading, and a few years ago, my pastor mentioned something about reading non-fiction books as an excellent means of continuing education. Also, since my recently-aquired Kindle, I've been reading even more.
I wanted to start keeping track a couple years ago, and since I have a pretty lousy memory, I figured I should make some sort of notes or write reviews. I realized it would be incredibly painful to try to maintain it in one giant HTML page, so I broke my rules and made this into a database. The summaries pop up (using magical AJAX) when you click on a book title. Plus I found a cool table-sorting Javascript, so the tables are sortable and filterable.
They aren't super-in-depth book reviews or summaries; sometimes they're not even about the book much at all! It really depends on the mood I was in when I wrote the review. But anyway, enough of my babblings... onto the books!
[Entire List] [2012] [2011] [2010] [2009] [older] [Fun Graphs] [edit]I'm still writing them down; might as well continue keeping track here!
| F/NF | Source | Date | Title | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | Kindle | 01/04/2012 | Neutron Star - Larry Niven | 113/113 |
| F | Audio | 01/06/2012 | Ringworld - Larry Niven | 352/465 |
| NF | Paper | 01/08/2012 | Reading Judas - Elaine Pagels & Karen L. King | 224/689 |
| NF | Android | 01/10/2012 | Douglas Adams: The First and Lost Tape - Ian Shircore | 24/713 |
| F | Audio | 01/29/2012 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson | 610/1323 |
| NF | Paper | 01/31/2012 | Beyond Belief - Elaine Pagels | 272/1595 |
| NF | Kindle | 02/05/2012 | I Want it Now - Julie Dawn Cole | 200/1795 |
| F | Audio | 02/05/2012 | Protector - Larry Niven | 224/2019 |
| NF | Kindle | 02/05/2012 | The Funniest Cop Stories Ever - Tom Philbin, Scott Baker | 192/2211 |
| NF | Kindle | 02/18/2012 | Lifehacker - Adam Pash & Gina Trapani | 0/2211 |
Mainly thanks to my Kindle, I've been reading a lot more since last November. Time to start keeping reviews again somewhere.
November 26 update - Things seem pretty sparse for the last couple months... I have a couple excuses - I've been reading through the whole Bible and actually making it this year. I'm on track to finish before the end of the year, so I may add a huge entry right at the end. Also, I've been listening to a 13-book dramatized series, so my audiobooks haven't been updating, either. And frankly, I just don't always remember to update this. I need to convince myself that this isn't a race or a game to see who gets the most points, but just an interesting record of the books I've read and what I thought about them.
Disclaimer! I definitely read books in 2010, but I didn't keep track throughout the year. But as I thought about it, I could come up with at least some of the books I read. The list is hardly comprehensive, but I realized my database is a lot easier than trying to write a bunch of HTML by hand. Plus, most dates are on the first of the month, because I really have no idea when I finished the books!
Pastor Brian just mentioned reading books as a good means of continuing education. I've been reading a lot, though I'm not exactly sure what I'm reading. I meant to keep track in 2009, so how about here... I listen to some audio books, read some on my pocket PC, and read some normally, so that's what the src column is for. The F/NF one should be self-explanatory. Maybe I should put a date in here...
Because databases make this easy and I can do this with one line of code, here is every book I've ever reviewed on this page!
So, obviously, I can't write down every book I've ever read, since it would probably be in the hundreds or even thousands. But if there's a book I particularly liked, or otherwise know I've read (from my Audiobook archive or digital lists somewhere), I maybe will have added it here. Dates are irrelevant, since they'd only be an approximation anyway.
| F/NF | Source | Title |
|---|---|---|
| F | Audio | A War of Gifts - Orson Scott Card |
| F | Audio | Abduction - Robin Cook |
| F | Audio | Carry On, Jeeves - PG Wodehouse |
| F | Audio | Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury |
| F | Kindle | Have Space Suit, Will Travel - Robert A. Heinlein |
| NF | Audio | Here's Johnny! - Ed McMahon |
| F | Audio | Lost Boys - Orson Scott Card |
| F | Audio | Playing for Pizza - John Grisham |
| F | Paper | Rama Series - Arthur C. Clarke |
| F | Audio | So Yesterday - Scott Westerfeld |
Uh, apparently there's some source code on here, but I haven't done anything with it yet.
Perhaps soon. It's the reason I added page counts to all my books.