Reading
This is the stuff I’ve been reading.
2009
Yeah. I’ve been reading a lot less, and coding a lot more.
Dec 23 – A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
2008
Jan 6 – Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand (1074 pages of really really small type) <- Everyone should read this.
May 31 – Daemon a novel – Leinad Zeraus (432 pgs) <- Cool nerd book.
2007
Jan 15 – Chainfire (Book 9) – Terry Goodkind (?pgs)
Jan 21 – Phantom (Book 10) – Terry Goodkind (574pgs)
Feb 18 – The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It (Audiobook) – Michael E. Gerber
Feb 27 – Finished watching all 7 seasons of Star Trek: Voyager! Not a book… but it was keeping me from reading… Overall not a bad series. Could have used a better ending.
April 2 – The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – Steven R Covey (Audiobook)
April 9 – The Motley Fool Investment Guide – David and Tom Gardner (pgs 303)
April 13 – All Marketers are Liars – The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low Trust World – Seth Godin (Audiobook)
April 17 – Free Prize Inside! & Purple Cow – Seth Godin (Audiobook)
April 22 – Debt of Bones (Prequel to the Sword of Truth Series) – Terry Goodkind (160 pgs)
May 9 – Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card (Audiobook)
May 13 – Enders Shadow – Orson Scott Card (Audiobook)
May 18 – Shadow of the Hegemon – Orson Scott Card (Audiobook)
May 21 – Shadow Puppets – Orson Scott Card (Audiobook)
May 30 – Shadow Puppets – Orson Scott Card (363pgs)
June 5 – The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More – Chris Anderson (Audiobook)
June 15 – The Four-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich – Timothy Feriss (Audiobook) I think I’ve listened to this 4 or 5 times now. A definite MUST READ/LISTEN.
June 23 – Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything – Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams (Audiobook)
July 5 – Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson (480pgs)
July 9 – How to Connect in Business in 90 Seconds or Less – Nicholas Boothman (256pgs) <- Great! Although a more appropriate title would be: How to completely psychoanalyze people and know how to adapt yourself to work well with them.
July 11 – Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years – Sarah L. Delany & A. Elizabeth Delany (320pgs) <- Amazing! Funny, enlightening and inspiring!
July 23 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling (759pgs)
Aug 23, 2007 – The Millionaire Next Door (Audiobook) – Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
August 26 – The Anatomy of Peace – The Arbinger Institute (224 pages)
November 17 – Confessor (Book 11) – Terry Goodkind (603 pages)
November 25 – Dune – Frank Herbert (544 pages)
2006
Feb 19 – Nickle and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America – Barbara Ehrenreich (229 pgs)
Feb 23 – Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card (Audiobook)
Feb 25 – Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card (Audiobook)
Mar 7 – Children of the Mind – Orson Scott Card (Audiobook)
Mar 23- Is the American Dream Killing You? – Paul Stiles (261 pgs)
… Pause … I wonder what happened here…
Aug 3 – Wizard’s First Rule (Book 1)- Terry Goodkind (? pgs)
Wizard’s Rules from the Sword of Truth Series
Aug 29 – Stone of Tears (Book 2) – Terry Goodkind (979 pgs)
Sept 10 -Blood of the Fold (Book 3) – Terry Goodkind (623 pgs)
Sept 17 -Temple of the Winds (Book 4) – Terry Goodkind (822 pgs)
Oct 5 – Soul of Fire (Book 5) – Terry Goodkind
Oct 24 – Faith of the Fallen (Book 6) – Terry Goodkind
Nov 3 – The Richest Man in Babylon (Audiobook: 4h 51m) – George S. Clason
Nov 19 – The Pillars of Creation (Book 7) – Terry Goodkind (725pgs)
Last book of the year!!!
Dec 28 – Naked Empire ( Book 8 ) – Terry Goodkind (725pgs)