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nice thread! Always good to see what other people read. My list for 2014: - Stoner - John Williams (you described this one well Bill) - A good man is hard to find - Flannery O'conner (highly recommended! A number of short stories; very human. It will rattle your cage) - Hollywood - Charles Bukowski (alcohol-infused; well-written; fun; Hollywood) - The legend of Sleepy Hollow and other short stories- Washington Irving (proudly purchased at the LOC, great great stories. Transports you to his time.) - Biography of Benjamin Franklin (very inspiring man, he did amazing stuff and always worked on improving himself as a person; he even dissected all world religions to make a list of shared virtues.) - Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (still struggling through this one. It's interesting to find out first hand what her controversial views are all about. It's definitely worth the read) - A number of Dutch books: de Zonnewijzer, de Kroongetuige (Maarten 't Hart); Sneeuw (Bernlef); Eindelijk oorlog (Herman Koch); VSV (Leon de Winter). - a Flemish book: De verlossing - Willem Elschot (really funny, about a feud between the village shop owner and the new priest) - more stuff, but can't remember right now Jaap 2014-12-11 2:27 GMT+01:00 William Denton <[log in to unmask]>: > On 9 December 2014, Andromeda Yelton wrote: > > Hey, code4lib! I bet you consume fascinating media. What good books did >> you >> read in 2014 that you think your colleagues would like, too? >> > > + Love & Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality, by Edward Frenkel; memoirs of > a mathematician who grew up and trained in the Soviet Union. Explains a > lot about the Langlands program. + The Circle, Dave Eggers. No > masterpiece, but an updated 1984, set in the company that succeeds Google > and Facebook and all the others. > + Stoner, by John Williams. Life of an American professor of English. > Quiet and powerful. > + Can't We Talk About Something More Please?, by Roz Chast. Cartoonist > from the New Yorker; this is a graphic memoir about her parents growing old > and dying. Very funny in some parts, very sad in others, always good. > + The Peripheral, William Gibson. 100 pages in I had no clue what was > going on. 200 pages in things fell into place and it (or I) took off like a > jet. > + Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous, by > Gabrille Coleman. An anthropologist explaining the history and workings of > Anonymous. Includes the most gripping IRC logs I've ever read. > + The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters. Old country house, post-WWII in > England, is falling apart, family has no money, local doctor gets involved > ... and strange things begin to happen. + The Org Manual ( > http://orgmode.org/org.html), where I always learn something new about > this wonderful tool. > > Bill > -- > William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/ -- *Jaap Blom* Projectmedewerker R&D *T* 035 - 677 1930 *Aanwezig:* ma,di,wo,do,vr <http://www.beeldengeluid.nl> *Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid* * Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB Hilversum | * *beeldengeluid.nl* <http://www.beeldengeluid.nl>