---+ Hobbies ---++ [[http://hbiostat.org/audio/fhmusic/guitar/jazz Jazz Guitar]] ---++ [[http://hbiostat.org/audio/fhmusic/guitar/classical Classical Guitar]] ---++ %N% Trumpet; goal is to be a decent player in 2022 ---++ Favorite Quotes * _If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties_ - Francis Bacon, 1605 * _You must be the change you wish to see_ - M. Ghandi * _Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise_ - John W. Tukey, 1962 ---++ Reading ---+++ Some of My Favorite Novels 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140239375 The Discovery of Heaven]]_ by Harry Mulisch 1 _[[http://www.ccel.org/d/dostoevsky/karamozov/karamozov.html The Brothers Karamazov]]_ by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671510053 The Shipping News]]_ by E. Annie Proulx 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553208845/ref=pd_bbs_null_1/103-9884959-9233428?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 Siddhartha]]_ by Hermann Hesse (Dec05) 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0679432469 Straight Man]]_ by Richard Russo 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140077022/qid=1135657813/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9884959-9233428?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 White Noise]]_ by Don <noc>DeLillo (Dec05) 1 _[[http://bonigv.tripod.com Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]]_ by Robert Pirsig 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394744209 The Assault]]_ by Harry Mulisch 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060512806 Cryptonomicon]]_ by Neal Stephenson 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375704779/qid=1122143479/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_ur_2_1/104-7918214-9941556 Niccolo Rising]]_ by Dorothy Dunnett 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345452003/qid=1126793643/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-8415192-5566369?v=glance&s=books The Accidental Tourist]]_ by Anne Tyler 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/Job-Story-Simple-Joseph-Roth/dp/1585673749/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215108995&sr=1-12 Job: The Story of a Simple Man]]_ by Joseph Roth (Dec 07) 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Falls-Richard-Russo/dp/0375726403/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215109070&sr=1-1 Empire Falls]]_ by Richard Russo (Feb 08) 1 _[[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=xj13KqqC3i&isbn=037575931X&itm=1 Crossing to Safety]]_ by Wallace Stegner (Feb06) 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014100018X/qid=1135658282/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9884959-9233428?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 Chocolat]]_ by Joanne Harris (Dec05) 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451166892 The Pillars of the Earth]]_ by Ken Follett 1 _The Shadow of the Wind_ by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 1 _The Sense of an Ending_ by Julian Barnes 1 _Cutting for Stone_ by Abraham Verghese ---+++ Other Recommended Novels 1 _Angle of Repose_ by Wallace Stegner ---+++ Some of My Favorite Non-Fiction 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/Team-Rivals-Political-Abraham-Lincoln/dp/0684824906 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln]]_ by Doris Kearns Goodwin 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0029117062 How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life]]_ by Thomas Gilovich 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670031518 The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature]]_ by Steven Pinker 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345409469 Demon Haunted World]]_ by Carl Sagan 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070504776 The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making]]_ by Scott Plous 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192100246 Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy]]_ by Simon Blackburn 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0809058405 Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences]]_ by John Allen Paulos 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465054803/ref=pd_sxp_f/104-1452008-8584762?v=glance&s=books A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market]]_ by John Allen Paulos 1 _[[http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/web/public.nsf/Documents/Risk Risk]]_ by John Adams (the geographer, not the president) 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743223136/qid=1126793537/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-8415192-5566369?v=glance&s=books John Adams]]_ by David <noc>McCullough 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/Blink-Power-Thinking-Without/dp/0316010669/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215108825&sr=1-1 Blink]]_ by Malcolm Gladwell (Jun 08) 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/Undercover-Economist-Exposing-Poor-Decent/dp/0345494016/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215108865&sr=1-1 The Undercover Economist]]_ by Tim Harford (Jun 08) 1 _Musicophilia_ by Oliver Sachs ---+++ To Read List 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559702362/qid=1122143836/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-7918214-9941556?v=glance&s=books The Travnik Chronicle]]_ (also called the Bosnian Chronicle) by Ivo Andric (Yugoslav Nobel prize winner; recommended by Janez Stare of Slovenia) 1 _[[http://www.amazon.com/Radetzky-March-Joseph-Roth/dp/1862075131/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217355648&sr=1-1 The Radetzky March]]_ by Joseph Roth ---+++ Favorite CDs * _[[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000C24KC/qid=1152325931/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-0421755-7200039?s=music&v=glance&n=5174 You Must Believe in Spring]]_ by [[http://www.billevanswebpages.com Bill Evans]] * _[[http://www.amazon.com/Heres-Life-Shirley-Horn/dp/B0000046KM/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1215108409&sr=8-1 Here's to Life]]_ by Shirley Horn * _[[http://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Morning-Tram-Stacey-Kent/dp/B000TEUCFA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1215108476&sr=1-1 Breakfast on the Morning Tram]]_ by Stacey Kent
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