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The Bostonians (World's Classics) by Henry James
Integrity by Stephen L. Carter
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
PrairyErth (A Deep Map) by William Least Heat-Moon
Writing Solid Code: Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs (Microsoft Programming Series) by Steve Maguire
In the Beginning...was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T. R. Reid
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About meA new (1/19/08 and 4/24/08) grandfather, son's son & daughter's daughter!
A technology trainer for Fidessa, a UK-based stock trading software supplier. We handle 90% of the LSE, and a 35-40% share of the NYSE & NASDAQ trade volume.
My seven-second resume: rural MN, MIT, DOD, FACC (Ford), PC, ATT, Nokia, BA, UK.
Our (wife Pat) three grown children have all found the public sector: Chip -- WNET, NYC; Maura -- HS Band Director, NJ; Katie -- StoryCorps.Net, NPR outlet, all of whom we couldn't be more proud.
Maura assured me "we can offer you a challenge teaching here in NJ -- you don't need the NYC Teaching Fellows". She was right. I took this job in the summer of '06 out of a deal with my wife. She basically "financed" my job at BA, and was needing a break from her commute to the DC area! So, here we are.
About my libraryRecent interests in fiction: dystopia. J G Ballard after Oct 09 Harpers; Margaret Atwood's new book. after seeing a Larriue bros film at the TIFF.
Two things I've learned since Nov '06:
I arrived in Cambridge MA on the day eecummings died, and
My first half-birthday was on the day the US bombed Dresden "back to the stone age". And so it goes.
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Currently readingThe Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
The Essential Chomsky (New Press Essential) by Noam Chomsky
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So far on the site it's been my experience that someone owns either the same serious books as I do or the same light reading ones. I was excited to come across someone who I overlapped with in both categories. Also, I'm from Minnesota.
I will make an attempt to check out that World War II book.
Emma
posted by eror at 9:18 pm (EST) on Sep 1, 2008