The Sunday Salon (Feb.26)

This week has been a good week, reading-wise. I was reading 3-5 books, and have finished off three of them in the last few days, so that’s got me feeling better.

I put up reviews for the ones I’ve finished: “Say ‘Yes, And!’” by Avish Parashar | “Be Fearless” by Jonathan Alpert | and “Wither” by Lauren DeStefano — in case you wish to read what I thought of them.

I’ve now picked up “Successful Women Think Differently” by Valorie Burton. It’s a review book that has a deadline of March 9th, so I figured I’d try to get it read this week, if not even just today. It’s not a long book.

Then I have several library books to get to: “The Eternal Ones” by Kirsten Miller | “Made to Stick” by Chip Heath & Dan Heath | “Quiet” by Susan Cain | and “Free Agent Nation” by Daniel H. Pink. That last one is an interlibrary loan, so I’ll probably have to read it first, before the others, as I won’t be able to renew it.

I’m very excited… I bought 5 books, this past week! I mentioned, in last week’s SS post, that I am trying to become a self-taught graphic & web designer. Well, I decided to buy myself some books on the topic. So, here’s what I bought:

     

“Head First: HTML with CSS & XHTML” by Elisabeth Robson & Eric Freeman
“PHP & MySQL for Dummies” by Janet Valade
“JavaScript: A Beginner’s Guide” by John Pollock
“Before & After: How to Design Cool Stuff” by John McWade

Yes, the JavaScript one is the same book I had been reading via the local library — I thought it was too heady for just a 3-week read, so I bought my own copy and can now take all the time I need to read through it! And that last one — “How to Design Cool Stuff” — is a really neat book! It’s got a lot of the articles from the Before & After magazine’s website inside… an extremely useful reference! I think I’m going to learn a lot from that one!

And, yes… that’s only 4 books, and I said I bought 5. The other one I bought is an eBook copy of Jennifer Smith’s “The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight“. I really wanted to read this one! I’d originally put the paperback copy with my Amazon order, even though it wasn’t going to be published ’til June (I pre-ordered it). But, when I found out I could get an eBook copy for a dollar cheaper and get it now, I decided it was worth it. So I cancelled out the pre-order, and bought the eBook copy instead.

I love getting new books!

Of course, now I’m broke, so I won’t be buying more books for a while. LOL. But, that’s okay. I’m also halfway to having enough money to buy my laptop, so that’s exciting, too! I can’t wait!

Have a good week, everyone! Here’s to lots of reading time!