And I'm back! I've been battling the worst cold ever since the day after Christmas, and just starting to feel human again. Now that I have a good bit of free time on my hands, I've decided to catch up on all the fun reading that I neglected last year due to academic reading/studying fatigue. Here's a list of what I've got:
Just purchased:
Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain and How it Changed the World by Carl Zimmer
The Tangled Wing by Melvin Konner
Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Started, but not finished:
Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley
The Best American Science Writing 2003, edited by Oliver Sacks
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (finished 1/13)
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are by Joseph LeDoux
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Gentle Bridges : Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Sciences of Mind by Francisco J. Varela
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem (unlike the rest of the books in the "not finished" category, I've had a hard time getting into this one)
Not yet cracked:
Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier, edited by Boris Fishman
Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain by Antonio Damasio
So if you'll excuse me, I have some reading to do.
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