On 9 December 2014, Andromeda Yelton wrote:
Hey, code4lib! I bet you consume fascinating media. What good books did you read in 2014 that you think your colleagues would like, too?
+ Love & Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality, by Edward Frenkel; memoirs of a mathematician who grew up and trained in the Soviet Union. Explains a lot about the Langlands program. + The Circle, Dave Eggers. No masterpiece, but an updated 1984, set in the company that succeeds Google and Facebook and all the others. + Stoner, by John Williams. Life of an American professor of English. Quiet and powerful. + Can't We Talk About Something More Please?, by Roz Chast. Cartoonist from the New Yorker; this is a graphic memoir about her parents growing old and dying. Very funny in some parts, very sad in others, always good. + The Peripheral, William Gibson. 100 pages in I had no clue what was going on. 200 pages in things fell into place and it (or I) took off like a jet. + Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous, by Gabrille Coleman. An anthropologist explaining the history and workings of Anonymous. Includes the most gripping IRC logs I've ever read. + The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters. Old country house, post-WWII in England, is falling apart, family has no money, local doctor gets involved ... and strange things begin to happen. + The Org Manual (http://orgmode.org/org.html), where I always learn something new about this wonderful tool.
Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/
