12-01-2011, 08:43 AM
You can tell a lot about a person from the books they read, but 3 isn't
a valid statistical sample and confining the list to just books won't
help you much either since there is SO much out there that doesn't come
packaged in the classic book format.*
But, whatever, my last 3 books:
"The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance
at NASA" - Diane Vaughan
"Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster"
- Allan J McDonald
"Managing Maintenance Error" - James T. Reason, Alan Hobbs
*For instance: Most of the non-non-fiction reading I've been doing recently
comes from these two sites:
3:AM Magazine - http://www.3ammagazine.com
Great Flash Fiction and Poetry!
Poetry International Web - http://www.poetryinternational.org
Lots of poets from different countries. Example:
__Never Make Friends with a Crow__
- Tua Forsström (Finland)
Never make friends with a crow!
a biologist said on the radio. A crow
gets attached to you easily, she’ll tap on
the window constantly, a crow can easily become psychotic.
Nothing happens here. Nothing. Gardens
in the rain. Lemons in moonlight. A flock of jackdaws
flew up with a huge racket by the ruin last night. The bells
softly through the haze. The smoke, the ringing. Once I saw
the eyes of a little girl cloud over, it was irreparable
right from the start, it hurts. The cloud floated over the
violet eyeball, slowly in toward the
pupil, and then I could no longer
follow it, that cloud.
- - -
a valid statistical sample and confining the list to just books won't
help you much either since there is SO much out there that doesn't come
packaged in the classic book format.*
But, whatever, my last 3 books:
"The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance
at NASA" - Diane Vaughan
"Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster"
- Allan J McDonald
"Managing Maintenance Error" - James T. Reason, Alan Hobbs
*For instance: Most of the non-non-fiction reading I've been doing recently
comes from these two sites:
3:AM Magazine - http://www.3ammagazine.com
Great Flash Fiction and Poetry!
Poetry International Web - http://www.poetryinternational.org
Lots of poets from different countries. Example:
__Never Make Friends with a Crow__
- Tua Forsström (Finland)
Never make friends with a crow!
a biologist said on the radio. A crow
gets attached to you easily, she’ll tap on
the window constantly, a crow can easily become psychotic.
Nothing happens here. Nothing. Gardens
in the rain. Lemons in moonlight. A flock of jackdaws
flew up with a huge racket by the ruin last night. The bells
softly through the haze. The smoke, the ringing. Once I saw
the eyes of a little girl cloud over, it was irreparable
right from the start, it hurts. The cloud floated over the
violet eyeball, slowly in toward the
pupil, and then I could no longer
follow it, that cloud.
- - -
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions