Now for Something Completely Different - A Reading List

Please excuse this digression from the world of CAD. After the last email is sent out and the IM dialog peters out, I close my laptop and look for something to read before bed that has nothing to do with CAD or engineering -- heck, it may even be non-technical. Yet, somehow, almost everything I am reading gives me some inspiration or knowledge that allows me to do my job a bit better the next day.

Have a book you'd like to share? Please suggest it as a comment to this post.

Here's what is on my night table:

1. The Space Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar, novel contrast Mumbai servants with the privileged family they work for
2. Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson, coming down from a failed attempt on K2, author stays at a village too poor to have a school, so he builds one, then another...
3. Bicycling Medicine, by Arnie Baker, great info on sports nutrition so you can find out went wrong on your last ride
4. When You're Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris, essays by the funniest writer in America (sorry, Dave Barry)
5. In Bolivia, Eric Lawler, at a yard sale, I wondered how some one could write a whole book on a place I could not describe with one sentence
6. 12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time, by Mark Jacobson, a 'semi-dysfunctional' family goes around the world
7. Intoxication, by Ronald Siegel, physiology and biology of chemical addiction. Legend has it an ancient goatherd saw his flock get frisky after eating certain berries, leading to coffee.
8. Dreams of My Father, Barack Obama, an introspective look, includes childhood in Indonesia and Kenya
9. Does Anybody Eat Wasps?, New Scientist, 101 answers, may be to one of your weird questions

Recently Finished

• Smile While You're Lying, Chuck Thompson, expose on the travel media. You will never want to pick up another travel magazine.
• Ultra Marathon Man, Dean Karnazes, who orders a pizza delivered to him during a run and eats it while running. Anything goes when you are running 200 miles at once!
• An Imperfect Offering, by James Orbinski, a past president of Doctors Without Borders writes of experience in Somalia, Rwanda, more, and reveals how big pharmaceutical companies ignore plight of the diseased poor.

Comments

[Assignments]

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[dissertation help]

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[Ruchika]

I find Alchemist by Paulo Colho one of my favorites read. It asks you to look for something good even in your small deeds.