cherrypj's reading history

Cover imageCSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions

by Andy Budd, Cameron Moll, Simon Collison
Finished on August 13th 2007
Rated by cherrypj: 4 out of 5

A very useful book on CSS. Excellent discussion of bugs and hacks/patches to fix them.

Cover imageGreat Expectations (Penguin Classics)

by Charles Dickens
Finished on August 13th 2007
Rated by cherrypj: 5 out of 5

Dickens is the *master*.

Cover imageComplications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

by Atul Gawande
Finished on July 27th 2007
Rated by cherrypj: 5 out of 5

Scary, gross, and excellent.

Cover imageThe Assault on Reason

by Al Gore
Finished on July 12th 2007
Rated by cherrypj: 2 out of 5

Returned it; part of the problem with borrowing popular ("new") books is that they're due back quickly. Not enough time to finish. Not enough desire, either. Some of that writing was especially turgid. A surprise, considering how well An Inconvenient Truth is written.

Cover imageThe Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas

by Robert H. Frank
Finished on July 4th 2007
Rated by cherrypj: 3 out of 5

Eh. It was ... OK.

Cover imageStumbling on Happiness

by Daniel Gilbert
Finished on June 20th 2007
Rated by cherrypj: 4 out of 5

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Finished on June 15th 2007

Cover imageDesigning Interactions

by Bill Moggridge
Finished on June 15th 2007
Rated by cherrypj: 2 out of 5

Tough slogging. Really tough.

Cover imageThe Assistant: A Novel

by Bernard Malamud
Finished on June 11th 2007
Rated by cherrypj: 4 out of 5

Very sad.

Cover imageFeeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top

by Seth Mnookin
Finished on June 7th 2007
Rated by cherrypj: 5 out of 5

Excellent!