Book Notes

I have split my growing book list on the left sidebar into "Queued Up," for books I'm presently reading (I read about eight books at a time, see below), and "Book Notes," for those I have completed and written up in a short one-sentence summary along with a rating, one star to five stars. The Perfect Storm and Faking It are my only five-star books so far. Oh, and there's my "Book O' Month" in the upper-left corner as well. Book lists are really easy to do in Typepad!

Maybe I've spent too much time with econ and evolution, but my approach is I select a bunch of good books then let them compete for my scarce time. After reading a chapter or two some just fade away and go back to the library unread (apart from chapter one), whereas others turn out to be worth my time and get read--those are the ones that make it to Book Notes and get a one-sentence review with a rating. I'll try to save full-blown blog posts for those books that really deserve a writeup and that have some Mo connection (most books do, you know). If you've read a good book lately, go ahead and sound off in the comments.

Comments

[Ann]

I notice three books in the "very short" series. Would the very short introduction to evolution be a good read for my DH, an evolutionary biologist.

[Dave]

Ann, I like the VSI series, but they are written for the intelligent reader with little or no acquaintance with the field. I think it would all be review for a professional in the field.