A few weeks ago, as I was shopping for Christmas presents on Amazon, I looked at my wish list and my recommendation list and lamented that I hadn’t had time to read for pleasure. Now that I’m not teaching, working full time and writing a dissertation, I can finally get back to reading. I thought…

My brain is too filled with stuff like audience and discourse communities and emergence to be of much use, but I thought in the spirit of winter solstice and the free time that many of us might be looking foward to, I’d recommend some geeky type books that you can read yourself and/or purchase for…