Christmas books
Jan. 12th, 2011 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigojoHi everyone.
I am pretty much getting to the end of both the money I got from relatives over Christmas, and the money I actually earned working just before Christmas. I have quite a large family, especially on my Mum's side, and I tend to ask for book tokens rather than presents because I usually can't think of presents I actually want. I asked for a rucksack to replace my 10-year-old one (which works fine except for the zips which are knackered) and got one that was nothing like it, and couldn't find a suitable replacement when I looked for one myself, either.
So, these are the books I've got so far:
- Smashing Wordpress, by Thord Daniel Hedengren (just in case I want to do some serious theme work on my main blog instead of just using a stock theme)
- No Biting, No Fighting, No Screaming, by Hejlskov Elven (which is about ways to deal with difficult situations involving autistic or developmentally delayed people)
- Caged in Chaos, by Victoria Biggs (this is about dyspraxia, which I don't have, but I had to have the book after being contacted by Vicky. Lovely, well-written book. I looked for it in the health section in the local Waterstones and it wasn't there anymore, and the staff told me it may have been put on reserve. I then went to the Psychology section, which is in a totally different part of the shop, and found it right there.)
- Sams' Teach Yourself Android Programming in 24 Hours (or something like that) (since I actually got my Android phone intending to do some programming on it)
- Pornland, by Gail Dines ("How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality") - I think it was Natasha Walter's Living Dolls which excited my interest in this subject (and in my next choice).
- Delusions of Gender, by Cordelia Fine (an antidote to the Venus and Mars claptrap which has been cropping up on my FB timeline recently)
My plan was then to use most of the remainder on Drupal Building Blocks by Earl & Lynette Miles, which was meant to have been released on New Year's Eve. However, it's still not available anywhere, and I called Foyle's in London earlier and they said it wasn't expected to be released until the 28th. So my next choice is The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov, which argues that the net hasn't been the liberating force it was intended to be.
Any thoughts? Anyone read it yet?
As you can tell, I read a lot more fact than fiction. I can't remember if I've even read any fiction since "The Shipping News" and that was in 1999. I can easily recommend the book over the film.
I am pretty much getting to the end of both the money I got from relatives over Christmas, and the money I actually earned working just before Christmas. I have quite a large family, especially on my Mum's side, and I tend to ask for book tokens rather than presents because I usually can't think of presents I actually want. I asked for a rucksack to replace my 10-year-old one (which works fine except for the zips which are knackered) and got one that was nothing like it, and couldn't find a suitable replacement when I looked for one myself, either.
So, these are the books I've got so far:
- Smashing Wordpress, by Thord Daniel Hedengren (just in case I want to do some serious theme work on my main blog instead of just using a stock theme)
- No Biting, No Fighting, No Screaming, by Hejlskov Elven (which is about ways to deal with difficult situations involving autistic or developmentally delayed people)
- Caged in Chaos, by Victoria Biggs (this is about dyspraxia, which I don't have, but I had to have the book after being contacted by Vicky. Lovely, well-written book. I looked for it in the health section in the local Waterstones and it wasn't there anymore, and the staff told me it may have been put on reserve. I then went to the Psychology section, which is in a totally different part of the shop, and found it right there.)
- Sams' Teach Yourself Android Programming in 24 Hours (or something like that) (since I actually got my Android phone intending to do some programming on it)
- Pornland, by Gail Dines ("How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality") - I think it was Natasha Walter's Living Dolls which excited my interest in this subject (and in my next choice).
- Delusions of Gender, by Cordelia Fine (an antidote to the Venus and Mars claptrap which has been cropping up on my FB timeline recently)
My plan was then to use most of the remainder on Drupal Building Blocks by Earl & Lynette Miles, which was meant to have been released on New Year's Eve. However, it's still not available anywhere, and I called Foyle's in London earlier and they said it wasn't expected to be released until the 28th. So my next choice is The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov, which argues that the net hasn't been the liberating force it was intended to be.
Any thoughts? Anyone read it yet?
As you can tell, I read a lot more fact than fiction. I can't remember if I've even read any fiction since "The Shipping News" and that was in 1999. I can easily recommend the book over the film.
