Meep's World of Books
Considering that I own well over 1000 books, I suppose it's a good thing that I like to read. I read for pleasure, I read for
information, and I read because it's good for the soul. For right now, all I have here are some reviews I wrote at Amazon.com. Eventually, I shall have statements as to my
opinions about specific authors, and some more full-fledged critiques of the books. Writing for the standard Amazon crowd (who are there,
presumably, to decide whether or not to buy a particular book) and writing for the patrons of marypat.org are two entirely different
things.
Jane Austen
Orson Scott Card
Charles Dickens
Judith Martin (aka Miss Manners)
Math Books
- Proofs Without Words II: More Exercises in Visual Thinking, edited by Roger B. Nelsen
- Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter
- Concrete Mathematics, by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik
- Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions, by Frederick Mosteller
- How to Lie With Statistics, by Darrell Huff, ill. by Irving Geis
- Scarne's Guide to Modern Poker, by John Scarne
- Math Into LaTeX, by George Gratzer
- Moral Calculations, by Lazlo Mero
- Flatterland, by Ian Stewart
- A Gentle Intro to Game Theory, by Saul Stahl
Science Fiction (and Fantasy, if it sticks its nose in)
Assorted books
- Connections, by James Burke
- Bananas: An American History, by Virginia Scott Jenkins
- Jane and the Stillroom Maid, by Stephanie Barron
- Jane and the Genius of the Place, by
Stephanie Barron
- Jane and the Wandering Eye, by Stephanie Barron
- Daily Readings with Soren Kierkegaard
- The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
- Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
- The Curious Cook, by Harold McGee
- The Good Old Days -- They Were Terrible!, by Otto L. Bettman
- Pegasus Descending, compiled by James E. Camp
Mary Pat Campbell, last updated
Feb 2004