Statistical Machine Translation (Reading now)

Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (On hold)

The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai (want to read)

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (want to read)

What the Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell (On hold :))

Life of Pi - Yann Martel (Thumbs up)

Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell (Thumbs up)

Metamorphosis (Strange…)

Microtrends - Mark Pen (Thumbs up)

Embryo - Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen

On Deep History and the Brain - Daniel Small (Thumbs up)

Blink The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell (Thumbs up)

What Are You Optimistic About?

The Coldest Winter - David Halberstam (Thumbs up)

Global Europe Social Europe - Anthony Giddens, Ratrick Diamond, and Roger Liddle

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (Thumbs up)

The Great Gatsby (Thumbs up)

42 Rules for sourcing and manufacturing in China - Rosemary Coates (Thumbs up)

1/24/2008

This book was chosen by WSJ ‘Best of 2007 Books‘ and I was looking for at least one book from the list and this is the one that I was able to find at a library nearby. I am a half way done now, and it is indeed a powerful and moving story so far and gives me a good opportunity to learn the cultures that I am not really familiar with.

2/14/2008

Finished reading.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3tgY_eI_P0

Of War and Wharton, Starbucks and ‘Peanuts’ by By MARK LASSWELL

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/pdf/December07/WSJNewmanMcJobBestOf2007.pdf

I was able to find some books from the article in the libraries nearby. I hope I can read at least one

Book-crossed

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5391589

Just started reading…

Regarding bookcrossing.com:

Nowadays, most of the newly ventured and popular top-tiered websites are focusing heavily on efficiency and fun factors to attract users but missing out on returning something good to society. This bookcrossing.com has almost 600,000 users and around 4 million books registered and most of those registered books probably are being read, or bookcrossed. This is fascinating and that’s why they are so successful. As of today, I do not see them on Facebook, but adding their services to Facebook will tremendously help extend their user base to millions easily. I hope they do that soon. When I was first bookcrossed, I remember that I had a very different feeling than a book recommendation from someone I know or from newspapers. It’s something exciting and definitely something that increases my good karma

I am looking forward to being bookcrossed soon.

It’s a moving and very intense story. The author, Hosseini, is really good at describing desperate & intense scenes in details with well-chosen words. I really enjoyed reading the book and look forward to reading his next book.

When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth.