Comments on: Favorite Gift Books http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2011/favorite-gift-books/ The murder victim? Your library assumptions. Suspects? It could have been any of us. Sun, 19 May 2013 23:49:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Emily Ford http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2011/favorite-gift-books/comment-page-1/#comment-9435 Emily Ford Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:46:19 +0000 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=3426#comment-9435 oh– also for Christmas I got:
The Savage Detectives, which I’ve started and am addicted to; and Herta Müller’s The Land of Green Plums, which, if the English works out for me, I’ll read it in German, too.

]]> By: Emily Ford http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2011/favorite-gift-books/comment-page-1/#comment-9434 Emily Ford Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:41:28 +0000 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=3426#comment-9434 So my to read list just grew exponentially. Thanks, all.

]]> By: Andromeda http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2011/favorite-gift-books/comment-page-1/#comment-9431 Andromeda Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:51:09 +0000 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=3426#comment-9431 OK, now that I’ve read the rest of your post (what? Kahneman’s so exciting one must comment instantly!) I have to admit there is at least one more very nice link in there. Also I must second the recommendation of Better, which I adored (and raise you “everything Gawande has ever written or will ever write”, starting with binging on his New Yorker essays: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/atul_gawande/search?contributorName=atul%20gawande ).

Clearly I will have to read Born to Run, as your description of who would like it might as well have a huge blinking sign with my name on it.

And to recommend a few more — here are books I read through the library, then promptly looked for excuses to give someone else so I could generate some royalties for the author: Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death (best book I read in 2010) and NK Jemisin’s Inheritance trilogy (2/3 published thus far iirc). (These are for people who like speculative fiction, which as far as I’m concerned OUGHT to be everybody.)

]]> By: Andromeda http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2011/favorite-gift-books/comment-page-1/#comment-9430 Andromeda Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:39:52 +0000 http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/?p=3426#comment-9430 Nice link to Thinking, Fast and Slow. Grant got that for Christmas which is very convenient as it means I can steal it for my flight to Midwinter.

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