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Feb 1, 2009, 10:40am (top)Message 1: naastik

I am going to post my categories and edit this post to add books, as I progress further in this challenge. * denotes the book(s) I am reading now and will use strike through to indicate the books I have completed. I am also planning to post a short review of each book.

a. From My Kindle
1. Word Fugitives
2. The Numbers behind NUMB3RS
3. The Selfish Gene
4. The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction
5. Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
6. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
7. Unaccustomed Earth
8. Only a Theory
9. Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics

b. Very Short Introductions ...
1. Mathematics: a very short introduction
2. Economics: a very short introduction
3. Evolution: a very short introduction
4. Cosmology: a very short introduction
5. Cryptography: a very short introduction
6. Quantum Theory: a very short introduction
7. Choice Theory: a very short introduction
8. Particle Physics: a very short introduction
9. The Elements: a very short introduction

c. Tamil

d. Translated to Tamil

e. Fiction
1. Just After Sunset
2. Financial Expert
3. Madras on rainy days
4. The White Tiger
5. The end of the affair
6. The Catcher in the Rye
7. A Tiger for Malgudi
8. Love in the time of Cholera
9. Parrot's Theorem

f. Non Fiction
1. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
2. Discover your inner economist *
3. Heads in Sand
4. Predictably Irrational
5. Trick or Treatment
6. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
7. Active Liberty by Stephen Breyer
8. Surviving Women by Jerry Pinto
9. The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman

g. Popular Science & Math
1. Phantoms in the brain
2. The Man who mistook his wife for a hat
3. Unknown Quantity
4. Abel's proof

h. Biographies and Memoirs
1. Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
2. A Champion's Mind
3. Teacher Man
4. Bringing down the house
5. Beethoven: The Universal Composer

i. English Language
1. On Writing Well
2. Reading Like a Writer *

-- नास्तिक (heterodox)

Message edited by its author, Feb 9, 2009, 11:36pm.

Feb 4, 2009, 4:15pm (top)Message 2: LisaMorr

Welcome naastik - you've got some good reading planned; I'll be interested to hear what you think.

Feb 6, 2009, 3:54pm (top)Message 3: cyderry

How can you read 6 books at once? The most I can handle is 3!

Feb 6, 2009, 8:53pm (top)Message 4: naastik

I am predominantly reading only 3. one at home, one at work (lunch time), one when I am in the gym, on stationary bike. I started the other 3 over a weekend, but have not made much progress since!

Feb 8, 2009, 11:53pm (top)Message 5: naastik

Just finished reading Ben Mezrich's Bringing Down The House. Here is my review

Message edited by its author, Feb 10, 2009, 12:17am.

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