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I enjoy reading and I had slowed down quite a bit lately. I had to rearrange things (like my chair), get a new light and recover my reading blanket.
It is amazing how bad the eyes get as you grow old. I need reading glasses (only 1.5x) and light. I find myself getting up and walking over to a window or lamp just so I can see the words (Glossy paper is the worse). Where is sit in a meeting, at church, and conferences is all dictated by light. You think you were not allowed to make notes in some conferences the lights are so low.
"I am at a education conference not a play! Turn up the house lights! "
I think I can get 6 this year. Anyway I am trying.
Oh - What did I read?
The first book is 'Beautiful Evidence' by Edward Tufte. I was given this book as a gift for doing a present ion at the Georgia HIMSS meeting. Very interesting; about how data and information is presented in print. He has numerous good and bad examples. The failure of Challenger and the PowerPoint they used and why it failed to to communicate the danger. The excellent diagram of Napoleon's march to Moscow and the death of his Army. The book is marvelous especially the way the book was printed and bound - I guess he had to have an example of what he was preaching.
The second book is 'An Approach to the Book of Mormon' by Hugh Nibley. The level of presentation is very high, graduate level at least and it is amazing how the English language has change in style since the 1940's and 50's. I liked his comment toward the end on how people accept things without full knowledge. He states "even a schoolboy from a previous generation would have known." Americans do not have nearly the depth of knowledge as our ancestors did, even one or two generations back. We have become lazy.
Okay so now I am on to my third book of the year - 'Man His Origin and Destiny' by Joseph Fielding Smith. I have 4 more books waiting in the queue.
Hmmmm - quite reading time.
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