10/19/2010

Books I want to read on break

Books to finish:
The Brain that Changes itself-Dr. Norman Doidge
A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, & the 4 Theaters of the Brain-John Ratey
Notes from Underground-Dostoevsky
Thinking in Pictures-Temple Grandin
20/20 Is Not Enough-Seiderman and Marcus

Books to read:
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat-Oliver Sacks
A Mind at a Time-Mel Levine
The Construction of Reality in the Child-Jean Piaget
Extraordinary People-Dr. Darold Treffert
Mellow Out, They Say. If Only I Could-Michael Piechowski
Nobody Nowhere-Donna Williams
Godel Escher Bach-Douglas Hofstadter

Books to reread:
Gifted Grownups-Strezniewski
Flow-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

4 comments:

  1. pssst. Oliver Sacks has a new book out: "The Mind's Eye." I haven't read it yet, but it's next on my list.

    ps I'm an infrequent commenter but I do enjoy your blog!

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  2. Thanks Laura, it's good to hear from you!

    Thanks for telling me about The Mind's Eye. I'll definitely check it out.

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  3. Update: Finished John Ratey's book and Thinking in Pictures, read The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. It was really good!

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  4. Update: Finished The Brain that Changes Itself & Notes from Underground, skimmed most of A Mind at a Time and Mellow Out. All excellent.

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