McGee’s Musings

I’ve been working on the reading side of the 50 book challenge fairly steadily. I’ve been less than diligent about posting mini-reviews as I go along. For my own purposes I wanted to take stock of what I have posted, what I’ve finished reading, and where I stand with the overall objective. Here’s a list of review that I’ve completed and posted.

1. Heinlein’s For Us the Living - 50 Book Challenge
2. Christensen’s Innovator’s Solution - 50 Book Challenge

David Allen’s Ready for Anything - 50 Book Challenge

4. David Gerrold’s The Man Who Folded Himself - 50 Book Challenge
5. Dan Brown’s Deception Point - 50 Book Challenge
6. Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress - 50 Book Challenge

Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon - 50 Book Challenge

8. John Brunner’s Shockware Rider - 50 Book Challenge
9. Robert Wilson’s Chronoliths - 50 Book Challenge
10. Bruce Sterling’s Zenith Angle - 50 Book Challenge
11. John McPhee’s Curve of Binding Energy - 50 Book Challenge
12. Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture - 50 Book Challenge
13. John Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up - 50 Book Challenge
14. Greg Iles’s The Footprints of God - 50 Book Challenge
15. Steven Johnson’s Mind Wide Open - 50 Book Challenge
16. Charles Stross’s Iron Sunrise - 50 Book Challenge
17. Brian Arkill’s LDAP Directories Explained - 50 Book Challenge
18. Eric Meyer’s Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Ed - 50 Book Challenge
19. Eric Meyer on CSS - 50 Book Challenge
20. Gregory Dicum’s Window Seat - 50 Book Challenge
21. Todd Carter’s Microsoft OneNote 2003 for Windows - 50 Book Challenge
22. Dvorak and Pirillo’s Online! The Book - 50 Book Challenge
23. Charles Stross’s Singularity Sky - 50 book challenge
24. Elizabeth Moon’s Trading in Danger - 50 Book Challenge

As far as books that I’ve finished but not posted reviews for yet, here’s that list:

1. Austin, Robert - Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work
2. Cadenhead, Rogers - Radio UserLand Kick Start
3. Caldwell, Ian - The Rule of Four
4. Carr, Nicholas G. - Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage
5. Hammond, Grant T. - The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security
6. Kelly, Kevin - Cool Tools
7. Lakoff, George - Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate–The Essential Guide for Progressives
8. Modesitt, L. E. - Archform: Beauty
9. MORIARTY, CHRIS - Spin State
10. Ringo, John - Emerald Sea
11. Ringo, John - There Will Be Dragons
12. Ringo, John - Cally’s War
13. Stross, Charles - The Atrocity Archives
14. Tharp, Twyla - The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
15. Wheaton, Wil - Just a Geek
16. Wurman, Richard Saul - Information Anxiety 2
17. Yamashita, Keith - Unstuck: A tool for Yourself, Your Team , and Your World
18. Zackheim, Sarah Parsons - Getting Your Book Published for Dummies

Finally, I have, as is my typical practice, here is the group of books I am in the midst of reading. Unlikely that I will finish them all before year end, but quite likely that I will finish enough of them to hit my goal. Particularly as I have some long plane rides in my near future.

1. Agans, David J. - Debugging: The Nine Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems
2. Bok, Derek Curtis - Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education
3. Camp, Jim - Start with NO…The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don’t Want You to Know
4. Cleaver, Jerry - Immediate Fiction : A Complete Writing Course
5. Delisle, Marc - Mastering Phpmyadmin for Effective MySQL Management
6. Downes, Larry - The Strategy Machine: Building Your Business One Idea at a Time
7. Graham, Paul - Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
8. KINDER, GEORGE - The Seven Stages of Money Maturity : Understanding the Spirit and Value of Money in Your Life
9. Lorsch, Jay W. - Aligning the Stars
10. McKee, Robert - Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting
11. Mokyr, Joel - Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy
12. Norman, Donald A. - Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things
13. Pinker, Steven - The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
14. Ray, Michael - The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment
15. Raymond, Eric S. - The Art of UNIX Programming
16. Ringo, John - The Hero
17. Schneier, Bruce - Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World
18. Stross, Charles - Toast
19. Weber, David - The Shadow of Saganami (The Saganami Island)
20. Weill, Peter - IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results
21. Wilson, Edward Osborne - Consilience : The Unity of Knowledge
22. Wright, John C. - The Golden Age