With summer here it seems I have tons more time to read and get things done. It also helps that Silverlight 3 shipped and work doesn’t quite take up all my time and energy. This is that I’ve been reading/plan to read:

Read:

• The Areas of My Expertise
• Me Talk Pretty One Day
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

To read:

• Starship Troopers
• Stranger in a Strange Land
• Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK
• More Information Than You Require
• A Model World
• House of Leaves
• McSweeney’s Thrilling Tales

Fowler’s book on refactoring is the greatest thing I’ve ever read; I highly recommend it if you do the “programming” of any kind. Also, Chabon is quickly becoming my favorite author. Kavalier and Klay was excellent, and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union was neat, but my favorite works by him are his short stories. Especially Ocean Avenue; it’s pretty much “the contemporary, quotidian, plotless, moment-of-truth revelatory story” that Chabon derides, but it is hilarious and touching and brilliant. I look forward to reading his The Martian Agent this summer as well.