Comments on: Question of the Day: What Are You Reading?

By: Doni Tamblyn

Doni Tamblyn — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:47:04 +0000

I guess I’m no different from anyone — I only want to read a book that’s intelligent, witty, highly unusual, beautifully written, and a page-turner. Is that so much to ask…?

Seriously, I really did find one like that recently: THE MASTER PLANETS by Donald Gallinger. I’d recommend it to anyone. What an experience!

http://www.amazon.com/Master-Planets-Donald-Gallinger/dp/1601641591/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205668458&sr=1-1

By: Dima Jurf

Dima Jurf — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:13:03 +0000

As I am a research student, I need to read a lot, by the way my research area is “How to encourage people to read books through illustrative websites”, I am still a fresh student, so two useful books I found,

- Reading Images, The Grammar of Visual Design; by Gunther Kress; Theo van Leeuwen; 1996
- Researching The Visual; by Emmison Michael; 2000

Actaully I am more reading journal articles now as I think they are more useful, and give me what I want in a direct, hurry way.
I like books too, and I have to read books, but book means to me “long time” in the time when everthing is running.

By: Andrew Nachison

Andrew Nachison — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:40:32 +0000

I read books for work when they really grab me – but more likely I’m reading books that have absolutely nothing to do with media, business, investment or the other things that keep me busy during the day.

Just finished:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (ok, not staggering)

Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar … by Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein. It’s a funny intro to philosophy.

Reading or on my nightstand and in the queue …
Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer
Collect Short Stories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No Time To Think by Howard Rosenberg & Charles S. Feldman (so far: no time to read … this one is connected to work)
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Cloudspotter’s Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Stress City. That’s a collection of short stories by Washington writers – including moi. It’s huge.
It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be. By Paul Arden.

By: Liz Mace

Liz Mace — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:28:00 +0000

Where to begin! So many books, so little time. I’m a social media fan but I also love to read – passionate about it. I’m listening to (on my i-phone mostly when I travel) The Secret Life of Bees and I’m reading Dreams From My Father and just finished Agent Zigzag about a WWII British double agent that I picked up in a bookstore on Bainbridge Island. I have a bookshelf full of social media/non-profit books too. Audio books though are the best – I get so much more “reading” done b/c of them. However, I absolutely have to have my work-related books in print so I can highlight them – I’m old fashioned that way.

By: Gloria Pan

Gloria Pan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:36:34 +0000

Given your personal situation, which I share and which I think is very typical, perhaps the question you should be asking is: What’s on your nightstand?

The Nine, by Jeffrey Toobin
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, by Barbara Kingsolver
Akhenaten, by Naguib Mahfouz (which I actually finished – only 168 pages)
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky (yeah, right)
A Little History of the World, by EH Gombrich (which I’m reading to my 7-year-old, slllooowwwwwwllly)
The Meaning of Night, by Michael Cox (which I’ll probably finish sometime soon because it’s escapist and easy to digest.)