Current Reading List

This page contains books I'm currently reading, though I will probably not update it too diligently (last update-7'th of May, 2009). Also note that reading is not enough, you also have to do things. I'm currently working on two programming projects in Python, and am learning Japanese.

Current Reading List
The Timeless Way of Building / Christopher Alexander
I barely started reading this book. I think if I ever find a quite afternoon, I'd probably be able to read this one.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People / Stephen R. Covey
I'm slowly working my way through this one. I'm trying to actually practice each habit before moving on to the next chapter. I think it's a good book. I haven't read many self-help book, and I generally dislike the entire genre. The 7 habits, however, looks so far as a serious book. It doesn't purpose easy solutions to anything, and I like that. I disagree with a couple of things, but so far it's a good book.

Crisis in Command: Mismanagement in the Army / Richard A. Gabriel & Paul L. Savage
This book is about the performance of US army officers during the Vietnam war.

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Previous Books

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams / Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
This is book is recommended by many people, and now by myself as well. It's a great book about managing people who get payed to think. It's a great read even for regular programmers like myself. It's a small book with plenty of fun stories. Highly recommended.

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability / Steve Krug
This is a book about designing web sites to be usable. It's a very quick read - large fonts, plenty of pictures. Nonetheless, I think it's worth the money. A day after finishing the book I happened to show my mom the blog of our honeymoon, and I immediately noticed the many flaws I made when designing the blog.

Kafka on the Shore / Haruki Murakami
This is the second book by Murakami-san I've read. Like the first one (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle), it is quite surrealistic. I can say that I really liked it, even though I disagreed with many of the overly-simplistic pacifistic messages Murakami-san tried to convey. Next I need to read Norwegian Wood.