YodaBeesh's Book Club: We Wish To Inform You...

Let me preface this posting: I read stuff. My tastes are all over the place, though you won't find me hanging out at Oprah's Book Club Section at the local B&N.

So I'll start my own YodaBeesh Summer Reading Club.

(Did you every have to do summer reading for high school? We were assigned 3 books each summer and tested on the first day back to school. It sucked being forced to read over the summer, but hey, I wouldn't have read the Narnia series, Hitchhiker's Guide, and other cool books)

The latest selection: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch



I just finished the book today as I spent all day at home nursing a hangover. Anyhow, great, easy-to-read, and very graphic book about the genocide in Rwanda in the Spring of 1994. Its pretty gruesome, and a damn shame that no one did anything but watch it unfold on the news. Tsk tsk.

The recent movie Hotel Rwanda was derived from stories in this book. I can go see the movie now that I've finished reading the book.

Estimated reading time: I think I did this in 2 weeks, mostly reading it on the elliptical at the gym, plus one full day of doing nothing at all today except reading.

I have a couple of books that I need to plow through over the next week:
The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent by Richard Florida

and

Oracle Database 10g PL/SQL 101 (101) by Christopher Allen

Uhhmm.... the latter is not what I would call recreational reading, but if you need to learn SQL on the fly, its not too bad! The former book is reading for a book club that I belong to. The author is a professor from my alma mater and I was gonna see him speak at Politics and Prose next weekend (truly the geek in me). Reviews to follow...