Last night, I finished my “annual” reading of A Prayer for Owen Meany.  (BTW, I linked to an older copy of it on Amazon because the newer one has a picture of John Irving on the cover and not the armadillo.  What’s up with that?  Anyway…).  I read the book for the first time my [...]

Lifehacker had a great post via Digg a few days ago where they asked their blog commentators to post books that have changed their lives. Their list included the usual suspects - the Bible, Ayn Rand, LOTR - and a few that somewhat surprised me - Richard Dawkins books, Hitchhikers’ Guide. But an [...]

Well, since finishing up my thesis (woot!), I have begun to fall in love again with the printed word. While I read over 150 books and other forms of “literature” as sources for my thesis, it is very different to read for a thesis than it is to read for “choice.” So, in the several [...]