Vacation Reading

[bjarvis]

Tomorrow morning, I'm heading to the trailer for a ten day vacation. I'm sure I'll be spending some time working on square dance choreo but I'm planning to spend the bulk of my time catching up on some professional development, technical skills and pleasure reading.

Here's a quick list of some of the eBooks I'm taking to read:

• The Prehistoric Earth
  
• A World Undone: The Story of the Great War
  
• City of Fortune: How Venice Won & Lost a Naval Empire
  
• Deep Space Craft: An Overview of Interplanetary Craft
  
• False Economy: A Surprising Economic History
  
• History of Scotland
  
• Rabies
  
• Thames: The Biography
  
• The Ellipse: A Historical & Mathematical Journey
  
• 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
  
• Elements of Influence
  
• Effective Selling for the Small Business Owner
  
• Javascript: The Definitive Guide
  
• Mobile IPv6
  
• IPv6 Essentials
  
• IPv6 Security
  
• Hadoop Installation
  
• Programming Amazon EC2
  
• Programming Android
  
• The Ruby Programming Language
  
• Fundamentals of Python
  
• 4G LTE for Mobile Broadband

I have a few extras if time allows but this seems a pretty good list.

Comments

[rwgill.livejournal.com]

I admire the diversity of your selection and your ambition. I can clear through a good book in a couple of days if I have nothing else going on. That is usually fiction or light non-fiction though. I'm not sure I could stay focused enough to read through, and retain, a technical tome read over the course of a day or two.

[weekilter.livejournal.com]

You shouldn't have any problem going to sleep at night :)

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

The only way for me to learn a technical subject is to read a bit, then apply. I couldn't learn Ruby from a book for example, without being able to run examples. But that's just me.

I love the diversity of this reading list! I wish I was anywhere near this disciplined. But usually, when I have time, I fritter it away on other things. Enjoy your vacation!