I love reading. Sometimes, I think how many books I can read in my life. If I read a book a week. I can read only 54 books a year, 540 books in 10 years. maybe about 2000 books before being 70 years. Just only 2000 books. Oh my God. Life is short. So I do not want waste time. I believe that reading is basic skill. How can I speed up reading? One of my answer is reading several books simultaneously. I have done in Japanese, but it seemed difficult to do that in English. But situation is becoming better. To review, I will write down what I am reading.
1. Principles of Economics by N Gregory Mankiw : This book is basic text book for undergraduate student who is economic major. Frankly speaking, if you are not economist, just like a business person, this book include everything you need to understand in economics.
2. Introduction to solid state physics by Charles Kittle : This book is also basic text book for 3 – 4 year undergraduate who is going to major material science. Topic is well chosen, which give you widen idea about solid state physics.
3. Modern history of Japan by Andrew Gordon : This book describe Japanese history from Tokugawa times to the present. One of the most interesting era is end of Tokugawa times to Meiji times in Japan. Japanese was struggling for forming the future of own country, but, at the same time, Japanese could focus on pursuing their ideal country. Japanese worked the best at this time.
4. Presentaionzen by Garr Reynolds : In 21st century, presentation is one of most important skill. Everyone is aware of this fact. But few can do good on presentation. If you want to improve your presentation skill, you can find a lot of hints from this books.
5. Predictably irrational by Dan Ariely : I am an experimental scientist, so I am aware that how easily we are deceived by the data. Science is relatively easy to make decision, but real life, there are so many variable to make decision. We believe we are rational, but truth is not. To know ourselves, why don’t we read this book?
6. Fifty shades of Grey by E L James : This book is very addictive. I can not help reading this. Erotic, amusing and deeply moving romance story, I can not stop turning pages. I just realized how reading is fun. When I found amazing book, I realize I love reading. I can not stop reading and finding new interesting books.
I have to admit. Now, I could not concentrated on one book recently, I write this post for me (Every posts is for me though.) , to review what I am reading, and to read forward.