I went and bought my first textbook of the semester today. I picked up “Rethinking Society in the 21st Century: Critical Readings in Sociology” from the UofA Bookstore, and I even waited in line to pay – do I feel like a student now or what! In any case, I got to thinking about some other books I want to read, so here’s a brief list (omitting subtitles), in no particular order:

• The Search by John Battelle
  This book really interests me, and it’s recieved some really great reviews thus far. Plus, I read and enjoy John’s blog all the time, so I am pretty certain I’d enjoy the book too.
• The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil
  The man is a great thinker and theorist, and so his comments on the content in this book (artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, human longevity, etc.) are particularly intriguing. I read JD Lasica’s review today, and despite the warnings of being very dense in places, I think I’d really enjoy reading the book.
• The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
  If I am going to read the new book, I figure I should read this one too. Sounds like it sets up much of the content in the new book.
• Blog Marketing by Jeremy Wright
  Another book by a blogger I read all the time! I was fortunate enough to be a reviewer for Jeremy on this book, though I probably wasn’t really that helpful! I really should have this book by now, I just haven’t gotten around to ordering it.
• Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
  I picked this book up in Chapters the last time I was there and read the jacket and a page or two and it seemed quite fascinating. Unfortunately I didn’t buy it at the time as I had a list of other books I needed to get first, but it’s definitely one I’d like to read.

All non-fiction books, strangely enough! I haven’t read much fiction lately now that I think about it, not nearly as much as I used to. Of course, I still don’t have the textbooks for my other two classes!