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[geekchick]

Nifty-looking books I must remember to hunt down, since I don't already have a stack of books nearly as tall as I am waiting to be read *ahem*:

• Acquainted with the Night: An Hour by Hour Celebration of the Art, Science, and Culture of Nighttime by Christopher Dewdney
  
• The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life by Paul Seabright
  
• On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
  
• Tangled Lives: Daughters, Mothers, and the Crucible of Aging by Lillian B. Rubin

Oh yeah, and the new Laurell K. Hamilton for some cotton candy for the brain.

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[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

since I don't already have a stack of books nearly as tall as I am waiting to be read

Only that tall? I'm disappointed (and no, I'm not going to start a DSW over whose unread book stack is taller). ;-)

the new Laurell K. Hamilton for some cotton candy for the brain

Yep. Gotta add that one to the list, too.

[geekchick]

Well, considering it's only recently that I let myself buy books other than technical references when I hadn't read what I already have, that's a pretty damn sizeable pile. And I'm not going to argue about whose unread book stack is taller, as it's obvious that we both lose in this case. ;)

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

McGee is wonderful. "On Food and Cooking" is very science-food geeky (like why the proportions of ingredients in Hollandaise sauce vary so wildly depending upon which source you look at). He also wrote "The Curious Cook", which is more of the same, except tends to be more accessible in its presentations (fewer graphs, IIRC).

If you like Alton Brown, you'll love McGee.