Two more books I read this millenium.

I recently did my annual cleaning of my office and realized I didn't have enough space on my shelves for all the books I've accumulated recently. So I made two piles in front of the shelves. One with books that I had read and just need to find a place to put and the other a pile that I have not got around to reading yet. As you might could imagine the unread pile is quite larger than the the other. Quite possibly three times as large just judging by glancing over there from where I'm sitting.

So I've decided to start going through this pile as part of a new year's resolution (one that I had intended to write a post about and it never got past the draft stage, sorry). Anyways, here are two books I have completed so far. And one doesn't even have pictures!


The Fart Party by Julia Wertz

This book of comics follows a year in the life of the author living in San Fran with her boyfriend and a string of shitty jobs. I love this book because it's completely true to life. It does not have to exaggerate life to make me laugh, instead it just shows it from an angle that most of us don't see it from.

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

I recently rode from D.C. to SC with my cousin and she had Malcolm Gladwell's most recent book on her iPod. Although I was trying to sleep most of the way (long long day) home, I kept finding myself intrigued by the mixture of fact and anecdotes used by Gladwell to express some startling ideas about success and the way we measure it. Well since I have a small obsession with starting things at the beginning (I know these books are in no way related like that, just bear with me), I decided to start with his first book instead of Outliers (the most recent).

Anyways, this book was just as amazing and startling. The amount of research that has gone into this book is startling. Gladwell did an amazing job of taking a large amount of data and putting it into a wonderfully easy book to read. I wish I had more time to explain this book but this is definately a recommended book from me.

And yes, I already bought his other two books and they are on the unread pile. Unfortunately, this book caused one book to move to the read and two books to spawn on the unread ultimately not really helping the cause but still worth it.